This is my post for #freewriters Thursday prompt ripples hosted by @mariannewest
I was so sure that I had my motor fixed that when I got up this morning I made my lunch and drink to go fishing. I did not start it yesterday because I wanted to make sure that the hole that I patched had time to cure, so I let it set overnight.
This morning I carried all of the things that I needed for today's fishing out to the boat. My lunch, crabs to feed the leftover bait, and my drinks.
I turn the water hose on, I had left it hooked up to the motor, and started the engine. If I would have had a stick of dynamite, I would have blown it up when I saw the water coming out just below the sparkplug.
My husband comes out, he was going pompano fishing, he looked at the water flowing out and then at all of my fishing things sitting on the boat and said, "You will never learn, that positive thinking will get you every time". I hate it when he is right. He left and I began taking out the eight bolts and two spark plugs.
I noticed that there were a couple of ripples in the Marine Tex that I patched the hole with, I sanded them down until it was nice and smooth and put the eight bolts and two spark plugs back in, and started it, but it still leaked. I am thinking since there is nowhere to buy dynamite that maybe a sledgehammer would do the job.
You would think that taking eight bolts and 2 spark plugs out is no big deal, BUT I had to do it 11 times today, and each time it still leaked.
My husband came home, he caught 17 pounds of pompano, so he had a good day. He called the outboard shop and they said to try super 300 gasket sealant. I painted it on the engine, both sides of the gasket, and the back plate. I put the eight bolts and two spark plugs back in and started the engine. IT STILL LEAKED. My husband got a paper towel and dried it. he told me to start it again, he wanted to see exactly where the water was coming from.
I started it once again, and you will not believe this, IT DID NOT LEAK. He said that maybe that is how the gasket goo works, maybe the water pushes it into the hole and seals it up. Whatever happened, I am happy and I am going fishing tomorrow.
