3 Bearings, 72 hours, No Joke!!!
05-28-2014, 01:23 PM
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You can get "Timken Aquaspex" Bearings, All the metal parts are coated so they wont rust when sitting in a Moist sealed hub. Since non ferrous metals (that wont rust) cant be made hard enough for a wheel bearing, the Timken coated bearing is the best bet..
05-28-2014, 01:52 PM
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That sucks, I heard you had to go swimming for the one that launched at the ramp? I would have traded you problems for the weekend, We smoked a rocker on our starboard engine coming back from cedar point on sunday evening. Learning how to dock with one engine was interesting, I actually thought there was a hope in hell I could back into a slip....that was never going to happen. Bow in for the night, then limped over to the ramp on monday morning. Hard to complain about the boat lasting until the last day of the trip to break, but its still annoying.
05-28-2014, 02:37 PM
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2nd trip out with my 311 I smoked a leaky trans, limped it back to Catawba and loaded it with one motor and the docks there aren't long enough to walk it up, I feel your pain.
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I'm stuck in a time warp here.....
I got the impression you were asking about HPF on the ac.....so.....
HPF can only be traced back to three potential culprits:
High pressure refrigerant sensor
Too much heat from low cooling (water flow) at the compressor
Faulty control panel
First check point is water circulation. Easiest to check and rule out. On all of my boats, I use a check valve prior to the pump to prevent an airlock when I return the boat to the water.
Second is the HPS. If you jump the wires (not disconnect) and the ac. Continues to function (after ruling out water flow) then the sensor is the issue.
If these do nothing, then the problem is significantly more expensive.
I got the impression you were asking about HPF on the ac.....so.....
HPF can only be traced back to three potential culprits:
High pressure refrigerant sensor
Too much heat from low cooling (water flow) at the compressor
Faulty control panel
First check point is water circulation. Easiest to check and rule out. On all of my boats, I use a check valve prior to the pump to prevent an airlock when I return the boat to the water.
Second is the HPS. If you jump the wires (not disconnect) and the ac. Continues to function (after ruling out water flow) then the sensor is the issue.
If these do nothing, then the problem is significantly more expensive.
Went to Buckeye Lake Friday night on the count that B dock was basically full at 5pm and they were the only public docks open on Memorial day weekend at PIB. Arrived to Liebs Island around 530pm with my driver side rear trailer tire sticking out about 2 inches farther the the rest. Knew it was a bearing, because I need to go thru them all and have just haven't gotten around to it. Put the boat in and when I pulled the trailer out tire came off, no brakes on the rear axle. Monday before we left I fixed the bad bearing and headed home. On the way home we stopped and got something to eat which was probably a mistake because when we got back on the freeway the middle axle same side bearing took a dump. I'm on I71 north of Columbus, OH trying to get a tire off so I can limp it home and as I'm working 5 feet from 70mph semis theres a state patrol in the middle of the N and S bound lanes giving me the thumbs up and asked if we are OK, I'm thinking get you arse over hear and block this lane or least throw out some flares for me, nope guy just sat in his car.
Got tire off and limped home on 2 tires, about 2 miles from my house I turn down a street and hear pop
front bearing driver side let loose, luckily I was right next to a gas station and I left it there, picked up parts the next today fixed it, got her parked in the barn and finally relaxing. A total of 4 bearings have broke since I've had the boat, gonna go ahead and replace the other 2 before I go out again.
Other then that boating was fun, boat ran good, having some AC issues but not a big deal the nights were cool got a HPF code on a Ocean Marine unit, the heat worked the night before and it pumped water, when I switched it to cool it ran fine for about 5 minutes then quit, never payed attention to weather not it was pumping water, I could never get it to turn back on even if I reset the breaker it just kept flashing HPF, any thoughts.
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Got tire off and limped home on 2 tires, about 2 miles from my house I turn down a street and hear pop
front bearing driver side let loose, luckily I was right next to a gas station and I left it there, picked up parts the next today fixed it, got her parked in the barn and finally relaxing. A total of 4 bearings have broke since I've had the boat, gonna go ahead and replace the other 2 before I go out again. Other then that boating was fun, boat ran good, having some AC issues but not a big deal the nights were cool got a HPF code on a Ocean Marine unit, the heat worked the night before and it pumped water, when I switched it to cool it ran fine for about 5 minutes then quit, never payed attention to weather not it was pumping water, I could never get it to turn back on even if I reset the breaker it just kept flashing HPF, any thoughts.
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