It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Still, trying to figure out where HATE lives. Some display signs on their lawns that tout HATE HAS NO HOME HERE. Maybe someone will call 911 to tell us were HATE was last seen. Exorcists are standing by!
I’d like to recommend the Citizen app (if it covers your area). It gives you real time info on police and emergency vehicle activity. “The app uses radio antennas installed in major cities to monitor 911 communications with employees filtering the audio to generate alerts.”
The first couple of days are a bit startling as you find out all the accidents, criminal activity in your area. But you get accustomed to it and then it really becomes useful.
(BTW – that’s an amazing photo. Couldn’t stop looking at it.)
My brother and sister-in-law live a five minute walk from a view like that.
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again …
Fandor:
They. Hate. YOU.
Those with signs on their lawns that say “HATE HAS NO HOME HERE” aren’t just virtue signaling; they’re expressing their moral superiority over people like you. In their view, you’re a deplorable Neanderthal who cannot be trusted with self-government and doesn’t deserve individual rights.
They hate those that think for themselves — probably because they can’t.
They hate those that have traditional values — probably because they don’t.
They hate those that think critically, understand logic, and value the lessons of history — probably because they don’t.
But most of all, they hate those that stand in their way toward ultimate power.
That’s where the hate is.
Sadly, rcat is correct.
Changing topic: I watched Prince Philip’s funeral today, and I was struck by how much British history was involved. The monarchy, the military, the music, and the sermons. It’s totally understandable why the Brits didn’t want to give up their history to the EU. Even though we won independence from them, we still retained much of their culture, including the Magna Carta and their language. In fact, the world still uses their language. I love the Brits.
From what I heard, the royal funeral used traditional Book of Common Prayer language. It’s beautiful.
They gave Prince Philip a splendid send-off in spite of the Pandemic. Love them or hate them, the Brits know how to put on a show. Let’s hope that this masking and distancing is over with by the time they get to see Her Majesty off (may it be a long time in the future).
tcrosse:
“And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea.”
Expat says, “In fact, the world still uses their language. I love the Brits.” The BBC broadcast an eight-part series on the history of the English language in 2003 titled The Adventure of English that you might enjoy. I’m posting a link here to Part 5, “English in America,” because, well, it describes what the former colonies and their westward extensions did to the language of the mother country, and because it serves the narrator as a bridge to the spread of English around the world (described in the last three episodes).
I found all eight episodes instructive as well as enjoyable– particularly Melvyn Bragg’s impeccable diction. You can find the full series in a playlist on Robin C. Carter’s channel.
PA Cat,
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
Didn’t we discuss Rebecca here a few months ago, or was that at Althouse?
PA Cat,
Thanks for the recommendation on the English language history series.
It’s a topic I am very interested in. I’m sure I will enjoy watching the programme on the tellie and am glad I don’t have to trek down to the theatre to view it.
I saw a few minutes of the funeral. I found the social distancing and lack of a proper choir idiotic and embarrassing. Pay for a quick, COVID test a few hours prior to the service and give the old guy a proper send-off. It was not something a great Empire would have done.
Philip seemed like a good man and I feel sorry for Elizabeth. Both seem(ed) dedicated to fulfilling their duties honorably and diligently. May God bless them.
Hopefully those are enough platitudes to permit me to rant on a pet peeve:
I cannot comprehend how Americans give two figs worth of attention to the goings-on of this absurd institution that brave Americans risked and gave their lives to divest us of. The monarchy (a monarchy) is one of the most antithetical forms of government to what America is founded on and stands for.
Expat and Rufus T. Firefly–
You’re more than welcome– as for RFT– just don’t forget to pay your annual telly licence fee to the Beeb.
Yancey Ward:
I don’t think it was here, although there was this. But I must say I know a lot about that book and that movie. It was a huge favorite of mine when I was a kid.
Daniel Hannan, in his “Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World,” intimates that the language itself played a role in the process, embodying words and concepts that fostered and spread freedom, words and concept absent in any other language.
Daniel Hannan, in his “Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World,” intimates that the language itself played a role in the process, embodying words and concepts that fostered and spread freedom, words and concept absent in any other language. And then, Churchill marshalled the English language and sent it off to war.
Slightly OT, if that’s possible in an open thread. Is anybody else getting a password required pop-up at Chicagoboyz?
“The Adventure of English,” written by Bragg, is available in book form for those who don’t want to watch the videos.
Rufus,
Our histories are different, but our values are very close. We needed Churchill and the Brits to stand up to the Nazis. The revolution was because they did not give us the same rights that they gave themselves. Trump supporters did not want us to give our own rights to international corporations, just as the Brits didn’t want to give theirs to the EU. The monarchy is not a ruling body in GB. It is part of British history, just as Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Franklin, and Lincoln are part of ours.
I won’t hijack today’s music post with this so I’ll just put it here.
Mick Jagger and Dave Grohl’s anti lockdown song ‘Eazy Sleazy’
Interesting we now have Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Mick Jagger, and Dave Grohl with protest songs. Three guys in their seventies and one guy in his fifties.
Rufus T. Firefly, Americans are obsessed with celebrities. Since the British monarch today has no real power at all over British policy, the Queen is now a unifying national figure for her nation. I have no objection objection to royals who stay in their proper places in the UK. I have great objections to people who behave like royals over here. This includes, among many others, the red-headed prince and his wife and his new friend Oprah.
Rufus T. Firefly, Americans are obsessed with celebrities.
Which Americans?
I have great objections to people who behave like royals over here. This includes, among many others, the red-headed prince and his wife and his new friend Oprah.
He and his wife haven’t been behaving like royals. They have been behaving like denizens of the confessional culture.
Americans are obsessed with celebrities.
They are perceived to be the “beautiful” people. But you can go almost anywhere (restaurant/7-11/church/court house … literaly anywhere) a see “beautiful” people.
I should have said “many” Americans are obsessed with celebrities. I, myself, have to ask my daughters who those people are in videos whom apparently I should recognize, but don’t. My daughter are not obsessed, but are at least aware.
Sonny Wayz: I’m getting that too, and then I’m getting an “Unauthorized” error when I don’t provide it.
Kate, one of my secret ambitions is to meet a famous person in a bar or on a flight and have a conversation with him or her as if I didn’t recognize this person at all. In many cases, I in fact would not recognize our modern latter-day celebrities in all honesty; I have no idea what most currently popular musicians, for instance, look like.
Last night, for example, I fantasized about running into William Shatner at one of my favorite wine bars (well, okay, my one favorite wine bar, singular) and just chatting along with him, somewhere along the way casually mentioning something about one of the Star Trek movies and dropping the most subtle, transitory hint that I knew who he was, but immediately leaving it behind so that it would leave him strategically puzzled: do I really know who he is or was it just a coincidence that I said that thing? And I worked out the exact hint that I would like to drop in his specific case. But everything else would be in the mode of Joe Everyman….
Rufus, while I mostly agree with what you said about the monarchy I believe Queen Elizabeth II has done about as good a job with it as was possible. There is something to be said for having a sense of duty, honor and dignity.
Rufus T. Firefly,
More than monarchy I am revolted by the concept of nobility and morganatic marriage.
Chases Eagles,
You and me both. The idea that Americans would pay any attention to a system that promotes offspring of one family over another, including tax payer allocations, based solely on parentage is beyond confusing to me. So it’s bad when governments do it based on skin tone, but it’s a beautiful tradition when it’s done based on surname?
And don’t give me that bull hockey that the British royalty “funds itself.” How did they get all those buildings and land they own? And tourists would stop paying to visit Buckingham Palace if it were a museum, rather than a literal palace full of staff waiting on a handful of people fortunate to have won the last name lottery? I remember paying a fee to visit San Souci in Potsdam and don’t recall seeing a King, Earl, Duchess or Damsel in residence.
In all humility, I recommend putting aside what one might think of the English Royal Family—assuming one does—and pray hard (i.e., with utmost conviction and devotion) that QE2 (i.e., not the boat) lives until 120—fully, or mostly, compos mentis.
Agnostics, atheists, Buddhists and Rosicrucians, even libertarians ought not feel themselves exempt from this humble request; i.e., meditation on the above is perfectly acceptable. Even welcome….
Remember: Hard.
Rufus, not even a damsel?? Terrible. I’d demand a refund. Then again, Potsdam…. Alas, there are no longer any Electors of Brandenburg. (A small, piddling note: ‘Sans’ Souci, as there is no Saint Souci. 🙂 )
I am not a monarchist generally, but I wonder occasionally what it would be like if Bavaria or Saxony were to have a real live Duke or something. No one is clamoring for Houses Hohenzollern or Wittelsbach to return, I daresay. When I used to live there, the closest anybody got to such stuff was an occasional article in Bild about the old Thurn und Taxis family. I think their patriarch passed away while I was in that part of the world.
The problem with monarchy is that it seems to be such a crapshoot. And even if you do get a royal house that’s having a really good run, like the Macedonian dynasty in the tenth century, all it takes is one idiot to ruin all that good work. Well, it is easier to destroy than to create. I guess in the end, as long as the world gets a few nice ruins out of it, maybe it wasn’t all for naught – vide Ozymandias, etc.
The problem with monarchy is that it seems to be such a crapshoot.
And the electorates who put Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau in office were up to just what?
Art Deco, you’d probably have to ask them (if anyone really wanted to hear what kind of answer they’d give – I think I’d rather not!).
Actually, come to think of it, some of the very early monastic foundations on Mt. Athos date from the Macedonian period, I think. That is certainly a precious jewel! Still bearing fruit today, btw.
Actually, regarding Justin Trudeau, he is currently heading a minority government propped up by the pathetic NDP—beware of any political party that has the words “New Democratic” in it—which government many if not most Liberal Party (i.e., Trudeau’s party) voters would, if asked, find more than a bit too far out in loony-left field (if still preferable to those simply awful Tories….)
Canada is, alas, beset by an unabashedly Left-leaning media on the one hand and, on t he other, a Conservative (or “Conservative”) Party that has trouble finding itself, finding a leader, articulating a coherent message and then getting it out into the wider public. To be fair, however, they are treated worse than shabbily by the media (see above), as is only to be expected; though now that said media can no longer really deflect attention from JT’s fecklessness (and corruption) as it did in the past by focusing 24/7 on DJT’s “issues” (real or mostly imagined)—which was a “specialty” of Canada’s media over the past four years—Trudeau is in danger of having to undergo a bit more exposure and scrutiny. But not to worry: his propaganda team (together with continuous and eager media support) are “on top” of things, even if they’re not…and his opponents are simply too awful to contemplate by all the right people.
Sound familiar?
My wife and I sold our MA home last June and moved to Ogunquit ME. We rented near the water, a view like that was never more than a few minutes walk away. I walked there at least once every day for seven months. It was always interesting and beautiful, regardless of, actually because of, the weather. On the last early morning walk (pre-sunrise) I was greeted (I like to think wished bon voyage) by a snowy owl. Maintained his perch long enough for me to take some great photos.
Brother in law gave me his aluminum boat. it had been sitting out collecting leaves for 5 years. 15ft with 40 hp yamaha, troll motor. Perfect for our little lake. Had to get new tires for trailer. Got it home and cleaned up. So far i’ve rebuilt carbs, replaced fuel filter, fuel pump, spark plugs, water pump and new gas tank hose, battery. So i’m $700 into it.
Now it runs fine UNTIL i go full throttle. Runs for few seconds then stalls out. The only thing i can think of at full throttle it’s sucking air some where.
Any suggestions?
jack,
If it runs well up until that point I agree that fuel/air mixture is a good guess. Does it have a manual choke?
“Does it have a manual choke?”
Yes it does.
Phillip Sells,
Never underestimate Catholics to have a Saint for any occasion. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton is the Patron Saint of grief* (or, I Patroness, I suppose).
*I had to do an internet search for that but I’m confident my mother’s mother would have known it off the top of her head. She could refer you to a saint for any occasion, from hangnail hardships to hovercraft repair.
Is there any choke setting where it runs at full throttle? Did you replace all the fuel lines (you mention the gas tank hose)? Those old, rubber hoses get brittle with age. Maybe you have a cracked or ill fitting line?
“Is there any choke setting where it runs at full throttle?”
Not sure.
“Did you replace all the fuel lines (you mention the gas tank hose)?”
Not yet but that would be my next step.
There could be a pinhole or collapsing under load.
Friend that’s pretty good with this stuff is going to get with me soon and see if we can fix problem.
A mechanical friend is a valuable friend to have! Best of luck!
I concur on the fuel line. Just a small pinhole will suck air and give you those symptoms.
Was able to get 10ft piece of fuel line tubing to replace all fuel lines. Cut to length replace line … 30 minute job. Another possible cause eliminated!
@jack:
Any gators in that lake?
Yep … we called parks and wildlife to remove them. They said no.
Well they might come in handy later 😀
In the mean time, you’re going to have the best-maintained outboard hehe.
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It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Still, trying to figure out where HATE lives. Some display signs on their lawns that tout HATE HAS NO HOME HERE. Maybe someone will call 911 to tell us were HATE was last seen. Exorcists are standing by!
I’d like to recommend the Citizen app (if it covers your area). It gives you real time info on police and emergency vehicle activity. “The app uses radio antennas installed in major cities to monitor 911 communications with employees filtering the audio to generate alerts.”
The first couple of days are a bit startling as you find out all the accidents, criminal activity in your area. But you get accustomed to it and then it really becomes useful.
(BTW – that’s an amazing photo. Couldn’t stop looking at it.)
My brother and sister-in-law live a five minute walk from a view like that.
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again …
Fandor:
They. Hate. YOU.
Those with signs on their lawns that say “HATE HAS NO HOME HERE” aren’t just virtue signaling; they’re expressing their moral superiority over people like you. In their view, you’re a deplorable Neanderthal who cannot be trusted with self-government and doesn’t deserve individual rights.
They hate those that think for themselves — probably because they can’t.
They hate those that have traditional values — probably because they don’t.
They hate those that think critically, understand logic, and value the lessons of history — probably because they don’t.
But most of all, they hate those that stand in their way toward ultimate power.
That’s where the hate is.
Sadly, rcat is correct.
Changing topic: I watched Prince Philip’s funeral today, and I was struck by how much British history was involved. The monarchy, the military, the music, and the sermons. It’s totally understandable why the Brits didn’t want to give up their history to the EU. Even though we won independence from them, we still retained much of their culture, including the Magna Carta and their language. In fact, the world still uses their language. I love the Brits.
From what I heard, the royal funeral used traditional Book of Common Prayer language. It’s beautiful.
They gave Prince Philip a splendid send-off in spite of the Pandemic. Love them or hate them, the Brits know how to put on a show. Let’s hope that this masking and distancing is over with by the time they get to see Her Majesty off (may it be a long time in the future).
tcrosse:
“And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea.”
Expat says, “In fact, the world still uses their language. I love the Brits.” The BBC broadcast an eight-part series on the history of the English language in 2003 titled The Adventure of English that you might enjoy. I’m posting a link here to Part 5, “English in America,” because, well, it describes what the former colonies and their westward extensions did to the language of the mother country, and because it serves the narrator as a bridge to the spread of English around the world (described in the last three episodes).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBqlVl0K9tw&ab_channel=RobinC.Carter
I found all eight episodes instructive as well as enjoyable– particularly Melvyn Bragg’s impeccable diction. You can find the full series in a playlist on Robin C. Carter’s channel.
PA Cat,
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
Didn’t we discuss Rebecca here a few months ago, or was that at Althouse?
PA Cat,
Thanks for the recommendation on the English language history series.
It’s a topic I am very interested in. I’m sure I will enjoy watching the programme on the tellie and am glad I don’t have to trek down to the theatre to view it.
I saw a few minutes of the funeral. I found the social distancing and lack of a proper choir idiotic and embarrassing. Pay for a quick, COVID test a few hours prior to the service and give the old guy a proper send-off. It was not something a great Empire would have done.
Philip seemed like a good man and I feel sorry for Elizabeth. Both seem(ed) dedicated to fulfilling their duties honorably and diligently. May God bless them.
Hopefully those are enough platitudes to permit me to rant on a pet peeve:
I cannot comprehend how Americans give two figs worth of attention to the goings-on of this absurd institution that brave Americans risked and gave their lives to divest us of. The monarchy (a monarchy) is one of the most antithetical forms of government to what America is founded on and stands for.
Expat and Rufus T. Firefly–
You’re more than welcome– as for RFT– just don’t forget to pay your annual telly licence fee to the Beeb.
Yancey Ward:
I don’t think it was here, although there was this. But I must say I know a lot about that book and that movie. It was a huge favorite of mine when I was a kid.
“Where hate lives”…
https://nypost.com/2021/04/17/nyc-ems-union-chief-says-crews-are-under-attack/
…as “Biden” continues to “unify” the nation….
Who knew that Danny liked to play with matches?
Daniel Hannan, in his “Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World,” intimates that the language itself played a role in the process, embodying words and concepts that fostered and spread freedom, words and concept absent in any other language.
Daniel Hannan, in his “Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World,” intimates that the language itself played a role in the process, embodying words and concepts that fostered and spread freedom, words and concept absent in any other language. And then, Churchill marshalled the English language and sent it off to war.
Slightly OT, if that’s possible in an open thread. Is anybody else getting a password required pop-up at Chicagoboyz?
“The Adventure of English,” written by Bragg, is available in book form for those who don’t want to watch the videos.
Rufus,
Our histories are different, but our values are very close. We needed Churchill and the Brits to stand up to the Nazis. The revolution was because they did not give us the same rights that they gave themselves. Trump supporters did not want us to give our own rights to international corporations, just as the Brits didn’t want to give theirs to the EU. The monarchy is not a ruling body in GB. It is part of British history, just as Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Franklin, and Lincoln are part of ours.
I won’t hijack today’s music post with this so I’ll just put it here.
Mick Jagger and Dave Grohl’s anti lockdown song ‘Eazy Sleazy’
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MN9YLLQl7gE
Interesting we now have Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Mick Jagger, and Dave Grohl with protest songs. Three guys in their seventies and one guy in his fifties.
Rufus T. Firefly, Americans are obsessed with celebrities. Since the British monarch today has no real power at all over British policy, the Queen is now a unifying national figure for her nation. I have no objection objection to royals who stay in their proper places in the UK. I have great objections to people who behave like royals over here. This includes, among many others, the red-headed prince and his wife and his new friend Oprah.
Rufus T. Firefly, Americans are obsessed with celebrities.
Which Americans?
I have great objections to people who behave like royals over here. This includes, among many others, the red-headed prince and his wife and his new friend Oprah.
He and his wife haven’t been behaving like royals. They have been behaving like denizens of the confessional culture.
They are perceived to be the “beautiful” people. But you can go almost anywhere (restaurant/7-11/church/court house … literaly anywhere) a see “beautiful” people.
I should have said “many” Americans are obsessed with celebrities. I, myself, have to ask my daughters who those people are in videos whom apparently I should recognize, but don’t. My daughter are not obsessed, but are at least aware.
Sonny Wayz: I’m getting that too, and then I’m getting an “Unauthorized” error when I don’t provide it.
Kate, one of my secret ambitions is to meet a famous person in a bar or on a flight and have a conversation with him or her as if I didn’t recognize this person at all. In many cases, I in fact would not recognize our modern latter-day celebrities in all honesty; I have no idea what most currently popular musicians, for instance, look like.
Last night, for example, I fantasized about running into William Shatner at one of my favorite wine bars (well, okay, my one favorite wine bar, singular) and just chatting along with him, somewhere along the way casually mentioning something about one of the Star Trek movies and dropping the most subtle, transitory hint that I knew who he was, but immediately leaving it behind so that it would leave him strategically puzzled: do I really know who he is or was it just a coincidence that I said that thing? And I worked out the exact hint that I would like to drop in his specific case. But everything else would be in the mode of Joe Everyman….
Good Night …
https://youtu.be/izR8OwWdXeI
I don’t care … I just don’t care
Rufus, while I mostly agree with what you said about the monarchy I believe Queen Elizabeth II has done about as good a job with it as was possible. There is something to be said for having a sense of duty, honor and dignity.
Rufus T. Firefly,
More than monarchy I am revolted by the concept of nobility and morganatic marriage.
Chases Eagles,
You and me both. The idea that Americans would pay any attention to a system that promotes offspring of one family over another, including tax payer allocations, based solely on parentage is beyond confusing to me. So it’s bad when governments do it based on skin tone, but it’s a beautiful tradition when it’s done based on surname?
And don’t give me that bull hockey that the British royalty “funds itself.” How did they get all those buildings and land they own? And tourists would stop paying to visit Buckingham Palace if it were a museum, rather than a literal palace full of staff waiting on a handful of people fortunate to have won the last name lottery? I remember paying a fee to visit San Souci in Potsdam and don’t recall seeing a King, Earl, Duchess or Damsel in residence.
In all humility, I recommend putting aside what one might think of the English Royal Family—assuming one does—and pray hard (i.e., with utmost conviction and devotion) that QE2 (i.e., not the boat) lives until 120—fully, or mostly, compos mentis.
Agnostics, atheists, Buddhists and Rosicrucians, even libertarians ought not feel themselves exempt from this humble request; i.e., meditation on the above is perfectly acceptable. Even welcome….
Remember: Hard.
Rufus, not even a damsel?? Terrible. I’d demand a refund. Then again, Potsdam…. Alas, there are no longer any Electors of Brandenburg. (A small, piddling note: ‘Sans’ Souci, as there is no Saint Souci. 🙂 )
I am not a monarchist generally, but I wonder occasionally what it would be like if Bavaria or Saxony were to have a real live Duke or something. No one is clamoring for Houses Hohenzollern or Wittelsbach to return, I daresay. When I used to live there, the closest anybody got to such stuff was an occasional article in Bild about the old Thurn und Taxis family. I think their patriarch passed away while I was in that part of the world.
The problem with monarchy is that it seems to be such a crapshoot. And even if you do get a royal house that’s having a really good run, like the Macedonian dynasty in the tenth century, all it takes is one idiot to ruin all that good work. Well, it is easier to destroy than to create. I guess in the end, as long as the world gets a few nice ruins out of it, maybe it wasn’t all for naught – vide Ozymandias, etc.
The problem with monarchy is that it seems to be such a crapshoot.
And the electorates who put Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau in office were up to just what?
Art Deco, you’d probably have to ask them (if anyone really wanted to hear what kind of answer they’d give – I think I’d rather not!).
Actually, come to think of it, some of the very early monastic foundations on Mt. Athos date from the Macedonian period, I think. That is certainly a precious jewel! Still bearing fruit today, btw.
Actually, regarding Justin Trudeau, he is currently heading a minority government propped up by the pathetic NDP—beware of any political party that has the words “New Democratic” in it—which government many if not most Liberal Party (i.e., Trudeau’s party) voters would, if asked, find more than a bit too far out in loony-left field (if still preferable to those simply awful Tories….)
Canada is, alas, beset by an unabashedly Left-leaning media on the one hand and, on t he other, a Conservative (or “Conservative”) Party that has trouble finding itself, finding a leader, articulating a coherent message and then getting it out into the wider public. To be fair, however, they are treated worse than shabbily by the media (see above), as is only to be expected; though now that said media can no longer really deflect attention from JT’s fecklessness (and corruption) as it did in the past by focusing 24/7 on DJT’s “issues” (real or mostly imagined)—which was a “specialty” of Canada’s media over the past four years—Trudeau is in danger of having to undergo a bit more exposure and scrutiny. But not to worry: his propaganda team (together with continuous and eager media support) are “on top” of things, even if they’re not…and his opponents are simply too awful to contemplate by all the right people.
Sound familiar?
My wife and I sold our MA home last June and moved to Ogunquit ME. We rented near the water, a view like that was never more than a few minutes walk away. I walked there at least once every day for seven months. It was always interesting and beautiful, regardless of, actually because of, the weather. On the last early morning walk (pre-sunrise) I was greeted (I like to think wished bon voyage) by a snowy owl. Maintained his perch long enough for me to take some great photos.
Brother in law gave me his aluminum boat. it had been sitting out collecting leaves for 5 years. 15ft with 40 hp yamaha, troll motor. Perfect for our little lake. Had to get new tires for trailer. Got it home and cleaned up. So far i’ve rebuilt carbs, replaced fuel filter, fuel pump, spark plugs, water pump and new gas tank hose, battery. So i’m $700 into it.
Now it runs fine UNTIL i go full throttle. Runs for few seconds then stalls out. The only thing i can think of at full throttle it’s sucking air some where.
Any suggestions?
jack,
If it runs well up until that point I agree that fuel/air mixture is a good guess. Does it have a manual choke?
“Does it have a manual choke?”
Yes it does.
Phillip Sells,
Never underestimate Catholics to have a Saint for any occasion. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton is the Patron Saint of grief* (or, I Patroness, I suppose).
*I had to do an internet search for that but I’m confident my mother’s mother would have known it off the top of her head. She could refer you to a saint for any occasion, from hangnail hardships to hovercraft repair.
Is there any choke setting where it runs at full throttle? Did you replace all the fuel lines (you mention the gas tank hose)? Those old, rubber hoses get brittle with age. Maybe you have a cracked or ill fitting line?
“Is there any choke setting where it runs at full throttle?”
Not sure.
“Did you replace all the fuel lines (you mention the gas tank hose)?”
Not yet but that would be my next step.
There could be a pinhole or collapsing under load.
Friend that’s pretty good with this stuff is going to get with me soon and see if we can fix problem.
A mechanical friend is a valuable friend to have! Best of luck!
I concur on the fuel line. Just a small pinhole will suck air and give you those symptoms.
Was able to get 10ft piece of fuel line tubing to replace all fuel lines. Cut to length replace line … 30 minute job. Another possible cause eliminated!
@jack:
Any gators in that lake?
Yep … we called parks and wildlife to remove them. They said no.
Well they might come in handy later 😀
In the mean time, you’re going to have the best-maintained outboard hehe.