I'm on a boat
So September has seen a bit of a change, in that instead of spending the little bit of time I get at the bench, it's been spent outside doing a bit of work on the boat getting it ready for a summer on the water! The following happened over the last 3 weekends, and a little bit here and there during the weeks in between. It was all kind of going on at the same time - but i've written it out as if it was one after the other. We inherited the boat from my wife's granddad. It's a fibre glass runabout with a 1985 Johnson V4 90hp oil injected two stroke. The Johnson was one of the first models that used a Variable Rate Oiling or VRO pump. These VRO pumps are a real sticking point on the internet and at the jetty alike. People seem to give them a real bash for being unreliable and causing an outboard to have running problems or worse still - kill the outboard altogether (due to lack of oil). We've only had the boat for a couple of summers, but it's been ...