If you've watched us for a while you know that we hate cleaning up after other mechanics. This poor boat spent over $30,000 and they were hoping we were going to be their hero. Like I've said before ▶ ruclips.net/video/vftfigLAFKg/видео.html
The priblem with the boat repaur industry is you have all the same problems as with auto repair, but more of it and worse because there's so many more manufacturers and more diversity of obscure/rare/obsolete equipment and much less standardization. Just so you know, before I buy a yacht, if it's anywhere near you, I'm paying you to come check it out so I might avoid some of these issues.
I spent a good 20 years of my life as a marine mechanic. I switched to fire apparatus 12 years ago. This video brings back memories I'd rather forget, lol. I'm going to give you a subscribe though, just to remind me. I've found in life that any type of service work, trying to fix up another's mistakes always sucks. It IS satisfying to figure out what others can't, though. Great video, I'm looking forward to exploring your content.
100% respect for you doing these jobs! It's one thing to work on this kind of industrial units on shore stations. Entirely different in a marine environment! These boats aren't like bigger ones with full time engineers on duty. An owner operator who doesn't have anyone to do constant checks and waits for things to get BAD before getting professional help can end up having a costly and time-consuming repair job.
The best thing in the video you didnt even mention. Tub O Towels!!! Those things are magic. They will even remove 5200 from your hands easily. Love those things.
New to the channel. First I was thinking this guy only wants to work on the easy jobs then I saw what you got into and you have my sincere condolences and a new subscriber!
I was Volvo Penta certified way back in 1992. FYI, those are known as needle bearings. Subtle difference, but attention to detail sets you apart from the rest. Needle bearings have long, thin rollers that are at least four times longer than their diameter, while roller bearings have rollers that are only slightly longer than their diameter.
@@stonelemon03 I just changed the oil on my Honda CBR1000RR yesterday and I can tell you that I exercised my vocabulary at the idiots who designed the way the fairing plastic bits connect like a jigsaw puzzle.
I hover over the PC every week waiting for your vids, I gave up working in boat engine rooms when I could not stand being upside down for too long, I work on open motors now and it is so much easier, I can understand what you go through, Best wishes, Bob
Just found your channel, Love the content and the way the videos play out. Owned quite a few Boats over the years up North (Queens New York), Couple SeaRays and also a documented 42' Matthews MY. Haven't done much sailing in FLA, Lived in Cape Coral and Miami over the years, once retirement kicks in (2-3 years ), I'm heading back to Fla. Hope to get another SeaRay, Maybe 30' s something weekender, we'll see. Keep the Videos coming , More Engine room Videos, Love that type of content..
Boat owners don’t realize what a mechanic a marine mechanic goes through on engines that have pod drives. Tremendous amount of back breaking work. Been there done it love the way you document everything you do a great job. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
You bet. Woke up about 5 years ago at age 60 and asked “what the heck am I doing at work?” Now I’m in a 2005 Hinckley 42’ sloop learning to handle all the wrenching myself and in the Chesapeake any time there’s wind. I’m in a marina in Rock Hall MD. Aiming at oceans and maybe the planet in a few years while I’m strong as a horse and just about that “good” looking. Grew a beard to look the part. :)
I love this channel!! I find mechanical engineering absolutely fascinating and the only reason I have a boat is because I do all my own work!! Im an industrial/commercial hvac/plumbing tech by trade and it's crazy to me that customers that have 0 mechanical know how want to argue and pretty much pretend like WE the mechanics don't know what we'r doing or raking them over the coals and I simply say...by all means, source and purchase the parts yourself and you can do the work yourself!!! O wait, you do have 50,000$ in tools and gauges and meters and know how to read them...right!!??
Back in the '80s my dad had a 28 ft pacemaker sportfisher great fun boat while we were coming back from Catalina in the middle of the Catalina Channel on our way to redondo Beach are we saw a broad bill and we turned into the broad bill and snap the cable stirring broke luckily though we had two engines and we were able to use the engines to get back to Redondo Beach. We put in a really nice hydraulic experience system that made its world of difference on that boat it was so much easier to steer
I'm a boat mechanic as well and have 4 of those Makita lights. 2 on the truck, one in the house and one in the shop, they're great!! The aftermarket batts suck, go oem Makita...
That's called tiller cable steering. They got rid of that by the 70s due to being dangerous AF. I had a boat like that once. 1960 MFG. It worked great...until one of the pulley brackets broke. If I had been going full speed when it happened, the boat would've immediately taken a hard right turn. Also, it was difficult to get back to the Marina.
Those bolts with the heads on the "wrong" end will drive you crazy. Makes you want to arrange a date between the design engineer and the Captain's daughter.
I'm a mobile mechanic for cars and trucks. I am 67 yo and still going on jobs every day in Myrtle Beach and I found this video so captivating for me. Many similarities and many differences but i enjoy what i do. One of the biggest differences is you saying that you had to order $10000 in parts? I was laughing so hard. If I come down to the keys. Can I work with you for 1 day?
The Beetle is cracking good. I think around 1962 with the small red lights at rear (?) but I don't see trafficators. Wing lights should be the slim type rather than the later fat ones, but I can't see those either.
All I can say that the engineers that design these boats / engines need to get in the field and work on them and see if they like to contort into tight places and work on them doing maintenance tasks. I absolutely dreaded working on my cruisers... 👍🤠 Oh and when your 6'4" and shall I say big boned, its really bad. You need to find a guy that's 4'6" tall and can bench press 300 lbs, that would be ideal! 😁
That U joint is trashed and i hope the crank snout where that plate is bolted to is bent up, and by the way, that was a fancy snap-on flexhead rachet Matt has there 😂
Smart move passing on fixing someone else's mess. We had a lot of customers come in saying my mechanic said and we ended it with then let you're mechanic fix it.
I had a customer drop my mechanical services 'cause he found a cheaper mechanic to do the service. Six weeks later, he called me beggin' me to come service a machine that his cheaper mechanic couldn't repair. I refused and felt great about doing so.
This exact thing happens to us! What’s worse is they treat you bad and think you forgot until we remind them and this happens even years later begging us to come back!
best one I had was a guy wants me to look at his clam and 30 minutes in he tells me the story about how he was going to sue the reputable shop in town for blah blah blah. Me: "Wished I could help you but My current insurance plan doesn't cover me in this application " next.
Awesome Chanel. Seems like whoever put everything back together would've checked that. Just my thoughts. In my opinion, someone should be going from A-Z on a rebuild like that. Master mechanics. Never anyone's fault. Although you get paid for it. Follow the manual and it takes guesswork out of the equation.
You are exactly right IF there is a manuel! Many times what we work on doesn’t have a manual or customer support because boat builders are out of business! It can be tough to find the answers.
The new Whaler is awesome. I'm trying to find a 13 with a 40. It's a childhood thing. I'll contact y'all next week if that's okay. I'm in NW Georgia and would need someone to check out the boat.
Retired ASE Master Technician here and I once worked with a man that was a Corvette expert: Knew how to stamp numbers on engine blocks to fool other experts into thinking the block was original, and he had a sign in his shop the read... Labor rate $100/hr $125/hr if you watch $150/hr if you advise $175/hr if you worked on it $200/hr if somebody else worked on it
Those are a bargain, compared to the Porsche pissing contest company I wasted my time at. At least mistamped Corvette is still a Corvette, a bullshit Porsche is a $100,000 Volkswagen.
I'm already thinking ,,, when they changed the pod was there an end play issues not done. I don't know about boats but there should be some kind of end play measurement or maybe that drive line shaft has a slip yoke? I didn't really see a good shot in the video? I have seen trust bushing (and block) messed up Bad because crank had pressure against in with zero lash.
Just discovered your site, very interesting , just wonder why boats have to changeover with so many electronic controls.. with EPA regulations makes Diesel engines a nightmare..and so difficult at times to access things. I once had a call on a boat that was so dirty I told the customer to clean up a bit before I work on his boat, he had been draining his engine oil into the bilge
Yes we work in some tight spots. Not all our engine rooms are clean. We’ve actually charged customers for our clothes if they got ruined fixing their boat.
Those Cat are impossible to work on good on you for doing all this work. I do not know how you guys/gals manage in that heat I am in BC Canada and somedays are too hot for me!
Do you have to go to school to keep up on all the latest stuff? I know a marine mechanic who works in CT. in Summer & goes to Fla. in winter & works down there. He hooks up a laptop on these new Caterpillar engines at times. And he's in his late 50's like me.
When I was doing service and getting ready to do surgery in an oven- I mean engine room I'd always bring my knee pads tight fitting knee pads elbow pads and a piece of thin rubber I could put across my stomach if I had to lay and reach and do stuff like that but it made working in that condition so much nicer just to be protected from banging myself.
Being a retired construction machine service engineer & welder i have never delt with marine applications but the hydraulics look very similar , i will say there is some very poor engineering in that pump drive. on excavators the connection between engine & pump is a dog clutch with rubber pads i have never had to change those pads that drive shaft with U/J's is wrong most likely out of balance with the worn out needle rollers & no way to grease as well , looks like some one cobbled up that hydraulic steering system from what they could find in the local scrapyard , Kudos' to you i would have walked away as well
I retired from a heavy truck dealership shop. I can't imagine the tight quarters you're working in. No ventilation, dark, heavy parts, little access that I had as conditions may have been nothing to what you do.
Is this vibration a new development after replacing the pod? I'd think that you would have noticed the vibration when testing the new pod if there was one.
Yes new development to us it wasn’t noticed on the sea trial that we showed a few weeks ago because weather was rough. Plus owner wasn’t onboard to know there was an issue!
Watching you working on that overpriced, over-engineered, Volvo engine/pod system reminds me of why I like my manually controlled, Cat 3208T's with straight shafts.
I used to work at a Stud Mill in Orygun and sometimes operated a large Towmotor fork lift with a Cat 🐈 😻 3208 it was a joy to drive, and I always wanted that engine in my F350
Thanks Timmy to small of a town to really get it done … easier saying no thanks to focus on our other customers that wouldn’t require soooo much intense attention. If it was regular repeat customer we’d be all in … but NOT a brand new contact. Does that make sense?
Marine technicians and aircraft technicians all work in areas too small and need 12" long fingers, 6 foot arms that can rotate and eyes on long fiber optic cables
Combine them both… the Navys new Ford Class Aircraft Carriers used virtual reality simulations to work through how human fingers, hands, arms and tools would work in 3d to perform mx work in the docks, ports, and at sea… amazing really. Figured out the dimensions to cut out and install large equipment, including when they might need to cut a hole in a deck or bulkhead… Amazing stuff
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If you've watched us for a while you know that we hate cleaning up after other mechanics. This poor boat spent over $30,000 and they were hoping we were going to be their hero. Like I've said before ▶ ruclips.net/video/vftfigLAFKg/видео.html
Yes sir. You can’t make chicken salad out of chicken shit. Good call on not attempting to solve someone else’s problem.
@@WillFixThat yes sir
@@scottp.5161 Exactly its a no win situation cause they already spent $30k and they are still broke and maybe worse off now.
Don’t know how old you are but you look young dude keep it up
The priblem with the boat repaur industry is you have all the same problems as with auto repair, but more of it and worse because there's so many more manufacturers and more diversity of obscure/rare/obsolete equipment and much less standardization.
Just so you know, before I buy a yacht, if it's anywhere near you, I'm paying you to come check it out so I might avoid some of these issues.
I spent a good 20 years of my life as a marine mechanic. I switched to fire apparatus 12 years ago. This video brings back memories I'd rather forget, lol. I'm going to give you a subscribe though, just to remind me. I've found in life that any type of service work, trying to fix up another's mistakes always sucks. It IS satisfying to figure out what others can't, though. Great video, I'm looking forward to exploring your content.
Thanks Darren! 20 years is a good bit as a marine mechanic.
Thanks for the videos! I try to do what I can on my twin 496’s and bravo drives. I learn a lot watching a Pro and mostly the PATIENCE !
You tube is a great platform for DYI.
100% respect for you doing these jobs!
It's one thing to work on this kind of industrial units on shore stations. Entirely different in a marine environment!
These boats aren't like bigger ones with full time engineers on duty. An owner operator who doesn't have anyone to do constant checks and waits for things to get BAD before getting professional help can end up having a costly and time-consuming repair job.
Yes we do the best we can with the different variables on each boat daily!
The best thing in the video you didnt even mention. Tub O Towels!!! Those things are magic. They will even remove 5200 from your hands easily. Love those things.
We love them too! They take bottom paint off your hands which is amazing.
Wow, they must be the bomb!
I don’t own a boat no nothing about engines but love watching people solve problems especially pinball machines love the video Darren from Australia
Thanks Darren we are always struggling to solve other peoples problems 🤣
New to the channel. First I was thinking this guy only wants to work on the easy jobs then I saw what you got into and you have my sincere condolences and a new subscriber!
Thanks Paul … welcome! We do LOTS of tough jobs! Wish they were all easy 🤣
Sir, I absolutely LOVE your videos. Thank you for sharing your extensive knowledge and experience on “all things boats”.
Thanks for watching and sharing ‘we fix boats’ 🤣
I was Volvo Penta certified way back in 1992.
FYI, those are known as needle bearings. Subtle difference, but attention to detail sets you apart from the rest.
Needle bearings have long, thin rollers that are at least four times longer than their diameter, while roller bearings have rollers that are only slightly longer than their diameter.
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Oh, what did I say?
@@WillFixThat Roller bearings
Patato potato volvo's are over priced junk.
Needle bearings, like in between lay shaft and cluster gears ⚙️ in a manual gear box.
Designers should be required to spend a year doing service and repair work as part of their ongoing training.
Not a bad idea… love it! Let them fit in these tight spots
Car designers too. Especially those at Audi
and motorcycle designers too.
@@stonelemon03 I just changed the oil on my Honda CBR1000RR yesterday and I can tell you that I exercised my vocabulary at the idiots who designed the way the fairing plastic bits connect like a jigsaw puzzle.
That is what engineers used to have to do
I hover over the PC every week waiting for your vids, I gave up working in boat engine rooms when I could not stand being upside down for too long, I work on open motors now and it is so much easier, I can understand what you go through, Best wishes, Bob
Omg lol hovering over your computer each week. I’ve been posting on Sunday’s at 10am unless we have a bonus video.
I'm glad to have found you. I am the mechanic etc on our 82 Grand Banks 42. Small spaces is the name of the game.
Thanks for watching! Where are you located? Even big boats have many small spaces 🤣
@@WillFixThat The Mai Tai is tied up in New Orleans. Weather events permitting, headed to the Dry Tortugas and Keys next Spring.
@@aubreytycer8708awesome maybe we will see you!
Great episode! Keep rolling WillFixThat team! 👍👍
Thank you for watching us as always!
@@WillFixThat 👍👍
I don't know how I missed this upload!! Great video again!
Thank you 😊
Just found your channel, Love the content and the way the videos play out. Owned quite a few Boats over the years up North (Queens New York), Couple SeaRays and also a documented 42' Matthews MY. Haven't done much sailing in FLA, Lived in Cape Coral and Miami over the years, once retirement kicks in (2-3 years ), I'm heading back to Fla. Hope to get another SeaRay, Maybe 30' s something weekender, we'll see. Keep the Videos coming , More Engine room Videos, Love that type of content..
Are you serious you want to see us trying to squeeze into these small engine rooms 🤣 welcome to our boat chaos!
Boat owners don’t realize what a mechanic a marine mechanic goes through on engines that have pod drives. Tremendous amount of back breaking work. Been there done it love the way you document everything you do a great job.
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We agree! We try to document… helps us cover our arse!
You sir are amazing - from a former gearhead now in a sailboat.
Are you sailing? ⛵️
You bet. Woke up about 5 years ago at age 60 and asked “what the heck am I doing at work?” Now I’m in a 2005 Hinckley 42’ sloop learning to handle all the wrenching myself and in the Chesapeake any time there’s wind. I’m in a marina in Rock Hall MD. Aiming at oceans and maybe the planet in a few years while I’m strong as a horse and just about that “good” looking. Grew a beard to look the part. :)
@@langstonholland9272sounds like a great adventure be safe on the Chesapeake we lived in Norfolk, VA a few years. Good fishing.
I love this channel!! I find mechanical engineering absolutely fascinating and the only reason I have a boat is because I do all my own work!! Im an industrial/commercial hvac/plumbing tech by trade and it's crazy to me that customers that have 0 mechanical know how want to argue and pretty much pretend like WE the mechanics don't know what we'r doing or raking them over the coals and I simply say...by all means, source and purchase the parts yourself and you can do the work yourself!!! O wait, you do have 50,000$ in tools and gauges and meters and know how to read them...right!!??
It’s great you’re able to do your own boat work! Thanks for sharing love hearing from other mechanics!
I like your closing thoughts on load testing batteries. Reminds me of a time I had to replace a bunch that failed that test.
Not mechanical here but like watching you work your magic
Thanks Mickey … you can learn different ideas even if not mechanical!
Looks to be a talented mechanic and a good business man. Nice combo.
It’s not that easy 🤣 you know it’s a balancing act.
YOU ARE GREAT TECHNICIAN 😊😊😊 YOU EARN EVERY PENNY
Thanks so much for the encouragement, I try to do my best. 👍
Well, you left me hanging, I’m a first time viewer and enjoyed the video so now I have no choice but to subscribe to see the rest of the story.
The story is always building… since our projects can take a month or two. But it’s all real and not planned.
Great episode. Loaded with information.
Thanks for watching … 🤩
Back in the '80s my dad had a 28 ft pacemaker sportfisher great fun boat while we were coming back from Catalina in the middle of the Catalina Channel on our way to redondo Beach are we saw a broad bill and we turned into the broad bill and snap the cable stirring broke luckily though we had two engines and we were able to use the engines to get back to Redondo Beach. We put in a really nice hydraulic experience system that made its world of difference on that boat it was so much easier to steer
The benefits of 2 engines is real 👍
I'm a boat mechanic as well and have 4 of those Makita lights. 2 on the truck, one in the house and one in the shop, they're great!! The aftermarket batts suck, go oem Makita...
Matt has a few of these lights around too .... we buy the oem 5-6amh batteries.
Learning I do with your right down to it video TY.
Thanks
Oh man the suspense !!! Need to know what the vibration is !!! Subscribed
Yes still working on that … 😂
Nice content, keep em' coming, subscribed.
Thanks Craneman hopefully you enjoy!
Now I remember why I have a 15’ whaler 😊
We just bought our 22’ a few months ago!
Hello from Siesta Key Florida
This storm reopened Midnight pass after being closed for 35 plus years. Yay
Been wondering how you made out up there…
@@WillFixThat
House on the Key that never flooded received 1 to 3 feet of water.
High tide and 6 foot surge did them in.
@@billsrq1788ugh sorry to hear that 😢
You kind of jinxed yourself when you said “we will start with the easy part first” 😂😅😂
lol it’s never easy.
I love tub of towels!!
🥰🥰 love them they are the miracle wipes.
I like the boats with cable and pulleys for steering.
There is something to be said about mechanical systems.
Spare Morse cables/total control 24/7.next
That's called tiller cable steering. They got rid of that by the 70s due to being dangerous AF. I had a boat like that once. 1960 MFG. It worked great...until one of the pulley brackets broke. If I had been going full speed when it happened, the boat would've immediately taken a hard right turn. Also, it was difficult to get back to the Marina.
Thanks buddy have a good year
Those bolts with the heads on the "wrong" end will drive you crazy. Makes you want to arrange a date between the design engineer and the Captain's daughter.
Yes it’s crazy some of what we encounter.
I'm a mobile mechanic for cars and trucks. I am 67 yo and still going on jobs every day in Myrtle Beach and I found this video so captivating for me. Many similarities and many differences but i enjoy what i do. One of the biggest differences is you saying that you had to order $10000 in parts? I was laughing so hard. If I come down to the keys. Can I work with you for 1 day?
Yup many similarities in cars, trucks and boats.
I know nothing about boat mechanics, but I could work for you any day.
Thanks we will take that as a compliment! 😊
@@WillFixThat aaaa yea i just reread that. My comment meant that i could learn from you. As in your knowledge and how you explain things. My bad guy.
@@SWF821 Thanks for the comment appreciate the kind words. Matt tries to teach as we video sometimes its tough since he needs to concentrate.
worked on Subs in San Diego while in the Navy then 2 Engine Rooms and AC&R Shop on 2 other Ships. Now a Turf Mechanic at a Country Club.
You are definitely qualified! Need a job? Turf mechanic at a county club sounds relaxing 😎
@@WillFixThat it's got it's advantages, but the Guys keep me busy!
We are the Volvo dealers down here so we would help if we could. Just depends on circumstances.
The Beetle is cracking good. I think around 1962 with the small red lights at rear (?) but I don't see trafficators. Wing lights should be the slim type rather than the later fat ones, but I can't see those either.
lol Punch Bug 👊
All I can say that the engineers that design these boats / engines need to get in the field and work on them and see if they like to contort into tight places and work on them doing maintenance tasks. I absolutely dreaded working on my cruisers... 👍🤠 Oh and when your 6'4" and shall I say big boned, its really bad. You need to find a guy that's 4'6" tall and can bench press 300 lbs, that would be ideal! 😁
Agree … some spots are tight!
This earns his money !!!
Appreciate that
I always thought it was Slug a Bug😂
We haven’t heard of that …
Thank God, I’m not the only one that has to go through the stuff if you ever need help I’ll come down and help you, sir
lol we always need help 🤣 it’s crazy here.
It's nothing but MONEY ❤
Exactly right and doesn’t matter when we are gone!
Prop pitch good point ! 56.
Close about 50mph on our second prop test run.
I am so glad I sold all my boats. Problem after problem is so normal.
It’s crazy isn’t it? Especially if it’s an older boat.
That U joint is trashed and i hope the crank snout where that plate is bolted to is bent up, and by the way, that was a fancy snap-on flexhead rachet Matt has there 😂
I know …. Took that video on purpose just for you too see 🤣😱
@@WillFixThat hahahaha, I love it. I hope he likes using it
@@honeybunbandit1yup in his go bag which it’s the first tools he takes on every boat.
@@WillFixThat good 😁 those flex head ratchets are a life saver
@@honeybunbandit1I know that’s what you told me originally…. He’s using them! 😮 thank you.
Can you imagine trying to change that serpentine belt in catastrophic weather in the middle of the ocean! Holy Smokes!
^..^~~
Definitely don’t want that job 🥴
The walking back and forth for tools is brutal.
Yup it can be a long walk not always knowing what you need in your tool bag.
I agree with you. Sometimes you just have to say no.
Definitely best he said no which is hard for Matt cause he always wants to help!
If you ever need help, I’m around on the weekends. Great channel.
lol who doesn’t need help? Are you in KWest?
I’m in Jupiter FL, when I come down, I will look you up.
Smart move passing on fixing someone else's mess. We had a lot of customers come in saying my mechanic said and we ended it with then let you're mechanic fix it.
I had a customer drop my mechanical services 'cause he found a cheaper mechanic to do the service. Six weeks later, he called me beggin' me to come service a machine that his cheaper mechanic couldn't repair. I refused and felt great about doing so.
This exact thing happens to us! What’s worse is they treat you bad and think you forgot until we remind them and this happens even years later begging us to come back!
best one I had was a guy wants me to look at his clam and 30 minutes in he tells me the story about how he was going to sue the reputable shop in town for blah blah blah. Me: "Wished I could help you but My current insurance plan doesn't cover me in this application " next.
that is the time you put them on your "special rate " $20/hour more. and if they do it again , the "extra special rate " $40/hour more.
@@nwmi493good for you 👍
Awesome Chanel. Seems like whoever put everything back together would've checked that. Just my thoughts. In my opinion, someone should be going from A-Z on a rebuild like that. Master mechanics. Never anyone's fault. Although you get paid for it. Follow the manual and it takes guesswork out of the equation.
You are exactly right IF there is a manuel! Many times what we work on doesn’t have a manual or customer support because boat builders are out of business!
It can be tough to find the answers.
Fully understand. Definitely not hating on you or the crew. I'm sure y'all deal with many headaches. @@WillFixThat
The new Whaler is awesome. I'm trying to find a 13 with a 40. It's a childhood thing. I'll contact y'all next week if that's okay. I'm in NW Georgia and would need someone to check out the boat.
@@jayc7262it’s not a headache IF people appreciate your efforts
@@jayc7262took us 1.5+ years to find the whaler and I told Matt either we go now or else it will be gone! We got lucky!
Man I love the volvos but they can be a pain in the ass to work on
To me it really doesn’t matter the make. Most jobs on boats are rough.
Retired ASE Master Technician here and I once worked with a man that was a Corvette expert: Knew how to stamp numbers on engine blocks to fool other experts into thinking the block was original, and he had a sign in his shop the read...
Labor rate
$100/hr
$125/hr if you watch
$150/hr if you advise
$175/hr if you worked on it
$200/hr if somebody else worked on it
Matt has a sticker on his water bottle that says the same thing except he has another line …
$250/hr IF YOU TELL ME HOW TO DO MY JOB! 🤣
Those are a bargain, compared to the Porsche pissing contest company I wasted my time at.
At least mistamped Corvette is still a Corvette, a bullshit Porsche is a $100,000 Volkswagen.
Auto shops charge 150-250 an hour
The absolute happiest day of being a boat owner is when you sell that P O S .
Yup that’s what we hear all the time then they go buy another one 🥰
Is there a follow up video to this? Want to find out the cause of the vibration. Love the channel!
On the Volvo engine?
@@WillFixThat Yes the Volvo wobble issue. Also Merry Christmas
@@johnhoffman8041yes just got it figured out recently… a plastic plate on the new ips. Video coming … you’ll see how we discovered it
I eat popcorn when I work on my boats.
You got lucky if you didn’t have issues.
Thanks for tooth brush diagnostic tool
Thanks for watching 👍
I'm already thinking ,,, when they changed the pod was there an end play issues not done. I don't know about boats but there should be some kind of end play measurement or maybe that drive line shaft has a slip yoke? I didn't really see a good shot in the video? I have seen trust bushing (and block) messed up Bad because crank had pressure against in with zero lash.
It all comes preset from Volvo. Only thing we have to do is the alignment and calibration.
Just discovered your site, very interesting , just wonder why boats have to changeover with so many electronic controls.. with EPA regulations makes Diesel engines a nightmare..and so difficult at times to access things. I once had a call on a boat that was so dirty I told the customer to clean up a bit before I work on his boat, he had been draining his engine oil into the bilge
Yes we work in some tight spots. Not all our engine rooms are clean. We’ve actually charged customers for our clothes if they got ruined fixing their boat.
Those Cat are impossible to work on good on you for doing all this work. I do not know how you guys/gals manage in that heat I am in BC Canada and somedays are too hot for me!
Yes summertime is tough.
I would be looking more towards the fuel side for a loping or erratic idle.
Good fuel changed filters bled system.
@@WillFixThat Injector?
If you to dig for info about a job, there's something rotten in Denmark!😂😂😂
Right on …. NEXT! 😱
Do you have to go to school to keep up on all the latest stuff? I know a marine mechanic who works in CT. in Summer & goes to Fla. in winter & works down there. He hooks up a laptop on these new Caterpillar engines at times. And he's in his late 50's like me.
Yes school and we just spent lots of hours for Volvo and we have a computer that connects like the Caterpillar.
that was a good video
Thank you more to come!
First that another thousand on new level
Yeah 👍
When I was doing service and getting ready to do surgery in an oven- I mean engine room I'd always bring my knee pads tight fitting knee pads elbow pads and a piece of thin rubber I could put across my stomach if I had to lay and reach and do stuff like that but it made working in that condition so much nicer just to be protected from banging myself.
Agree completely… the guys are always getting black & blue 😢
Said last week cant retire as that pod thing will give you lots of work.
Yup same boat as the pod …. Some more issues unfortunately not work we’ve already done
@@WillFixThat You will learn to hate working on vovlo if it hasnt already happen
Intense.😅
Some days to say the least.
Yamaha or Suzuki outboards for me, please and thank you. Good luck with the Ovlov! (backwards Volvo)
ex -ac -tly
I have a Mercury 225 and a Yamaha 200 DEC. like both of them.
Being a retired construction machine service engineer & welder i have never delt with marine applications but the hydraulics look very similar , i will say there is some very poor engineering in that pump drive. on excavators the connection between engine & pump is a dog clutch with rubber pads i have never had to change those pads that drive shaft with U/J's is wrong most likely out of balance with the worn out needle rollers & no way to grease as well , looks like some one cobbled up that hydraulic steering system from what they could find in the local scrapyard , Kudos' to you i would have walked away as well
I retired from a heavy truck dealership shop. I can't imagine the tight quarters you're working in. No ventilation, dark, heavy parts, little access that I had as conditions may have been nothing to what you do.
Do you have f250 diesel experience it’s a 1997 7.3 power stroke.
I always figured motorcycle mechanic has to be the easiest, most task accessible job.
Outboard engines but not if you need to get into small compartments.
yep it means SELL IT buy another boat with easy outboard
@@WillFixThat Freightliner dealership.
Needle bearings 👍
Correct!
Bauer makes the same flashlight. 20v. Probably cheaper than Makita. I have a ton of the Bauer stuff, but i still need more.
😮pods looks like a major pain in the***
Straight shafts or outboards the way to go
Just depends on one preference.
I Google it & read 69 to 92 depending how the boat set up . I'm not a boat owner & my guess was way off . Good video yal stay safe
It’s fast enough 😳🤣
volvo pentas are fun !
They r amazing 🥲
What happened to 2 stroke detroits and mechanical gauges and switches?
They are still around but those boats are old and a lot of them are getting crushed these days.
Head lamp its a game changer makes that light you have a relic from the 19 century.
Yeah I bought him headlamp but he prefers his light.
Between working in small spaces and heat you deserve every dollar you charge!
Thanks Rick …. We agree and if NOT then the customer isn’t our ideal customer!
Isn't the engine disconnected as soon as you unbolted it from the shaft? before you removed the shaft?
Yes but there is a Vulcan disk that is a vibration dampener, weighs about 50 #. Had to take that off also.
Is this vibration a new development after replacing the pod? I'd think that you would have noticed the vibration when testing the new pod if there was one.
Yes new development to us it wasn’t noticed on the sea trial that we showed a few weeks ago because weather was rough. Plus owner wasn’t onboard to know there was an issue!
I would say that 200 Yami on the Polar would probably do about 48 mph
Yes …. It’s fast all things considered.
Would you recommend Volvo Penta engines?
Sure we just worked on a Volvo with 14k hrs on it and running great!
The D13 Engines are awesome, POD drives are not
Good morning
Hi fatcat …. 👍
Only Dr. Frankenstein can recreate a Frankenstein…
Not sure what you mean.
You're crazy working on a volvo lol
We are the Volvo Dealers down here.
Watching you working on that overpriced, over-engineered, Volvo engine/pod system reminds me of why I like my manually controlled, Cat 3208T's with straight shafts.
I used to work at a Stud Mill in Orygun and sometimes operated a large Towmotor fork lift with a Cat 🐈 😻 3208 it was a joy to drive, and I always wanted that engine in my F350
They are simple and easy. Different strokes for different folks 😁
Good luck, the Lord Be with You
Thank you 🙏
quote on a whole new local built steering system
Thanks Timmy to small of a town to really get it done … easier saying no thanks to focus on our other customers that wouldn’t require soooo much intense attention. If it was regular repeat customer we’d be all in … but NOT a brand new contact. Does that make sense?
And when you get the starboard pod all fixed it’s time to do everything on the port pod$$$$$$
Oh Paul hopefully not. 🙃
How are the engine mounts on that engine? That pod locking up could definitely cause torque to damage the engine mounts.
First thing I checked. Alignment is perfect and the mounts are all tight. No signs of shifting.
I have been a tractor mechanic and a boat mechanic. I know which job I prefer. Geez a lot of stuff buried in that Volvo
Wow Tractor and Boat … where you live Wisconsin 🤣
You create work to Pad your Bottom Line! 😮
Apparently you haven’t watched for long. We never create work.
Depends on the pitch of the prop but it should do , maybe, 62.
On our second prop goes about 50mph. 😱
This is y outboard rule!!! P s. I thnk that 19ft'r with the 200 yami will do 52 w.o t.!!!
Yup you’re pretty close. 👍
Marine technicians and aircraft technicians all work in areas too small and need 12" long fingers, 6 foot arms that can rotate and eyes on long fiber optic cables
Exactly story of a mechanics life needing more arms.
Combine them both… the Navys new Ford Class Aircraft Carriers used virtual reality simulations to work through how human fingers, hands, arms and tools would work in 3d to perform mx work in the docks, ports, and at sea… amazing really.
Figured out the dimensions to cut out and install large equipment, including when they might need to cut a hole in a deck or bulkhead…
Amazing stuff
@@WillFixThat I left many a shoe print on ceiling of small aircraft while working on cockpit control panels
@@Gizmo2024 Matt too ...