PARSON
09-04-2004, 08:41 PM
:bash: Friday morning, my day off and I am going to head out to Nepessing for some bass and pike fishing. The fog delays my departure but I get to the lake by 8:45. Only one other boat out and the parking lot is empty. Cool no hassle unloading. I get out and start to do some top water fishing. My trolling motor is working great. Start up the big Force a couple of times to move........then it happens NO POWER and a bunch of noice coming form the motor. I have two gas tanks so I switched thinking maybe bad gas. Nope still hardly any power. So I slowly make it across the lake to the launch area.
Pull off the top try to rev up the motor. No luck. Back out and still very little power. So I load it up and head for home. TIme on the water...11/2 hours.
All the way home wondering what could be wrong. Thinking about working on it or maybe having to take it in. I get home put it in the pole barn and take the cover off and there it is, THE PROBLEM. A piece of the cheap insulation had come off and was stuck in the carb. So I tore the rest off. Starting it up and it ran beautiful. I noticed a lot of sand like fragments from the insulation on the bottom so I cleaned it all up. THe cheap thin foam ruined my day of fishing. What has ruined your day??? Post it for all to read. :fish:
Pull off the top try to rev up the motor. No luck. Back out and still very little power. So I load it up and head for home. TIme on the water...11/2 hours.
All the way home wondering what could be wrong. Thinking about working on it or maybe having to take it in. I get home put it in the pole barn and take the cover off and there it is, THE PROBLEM. A piece of the cheap insulation had come off and was stuck in the carb. So I tore the rest off. Starting it up and it ran beautiful. I noticed a lot of sand like fragments from the insulation on the bottom so I cleaned it all up. THe cheap thin foam ruined my day of fishing. What has ruined your day??? Post it for all to read. :fish: