welcome to saving vessel seeker we're here for part of the summer on kerr lake it's just outside
callahan cove marina sallisaw oklahoma come see us on a saturday if you like but getting here
we had some problems with the yamaha engine and this video is about that it was the fuel and you
got to take care of fuel apparently you can't run these engines on water enjoy the video okay so we
checked wires sparked plugs all that looked good and then we said let's check for water and fuel
water in the fuel and that pulled off the bottom of that tank and you can see there's a
lot of water in there the top layer that's the fuel so sexy what are you doing doug melting
what do you think the temperature is right now 107 with the heat index now i'm out in the sun i
believe it can melt the jolly rancher in about two seconds yeah that right there is what we're trying
to pull off tell me again what it is fuel filter water separator okay it's when it gets so much
water in the bottom it sets off a sensor but that has to be something that's mounted up on a console
and i've got a tiller handle so i need to figure out how to that would be a handy dandy sensor to
have you think it would just beep a noise or something at you maybe i just do that and then
there's a little crappy filter on the top of this thing too we should not drop it in the lake it's
even broken right from the factory not much of a filter so what kind of filter do they recommend
you put in it just one in the line anywhere okay we can do that so that's the water we can get out
easily we put it all back together and hopefully the injectors will get rid of the rest of it
okay
huh it's having a little trouble but i think give it some time it'll work it through
if you don't like running on water what's the matter with you
i saw a video on youtube that made it easier to run underwater yeah that's getting better
and better it's about 60 seconds there oh it's gonna idle he seemed very happier
all right here's the rest of the story on that engine it threw us off we thought
water at first and we started messing with the plugs a little bit it's like
it would run fine on cylinder one that's at the top but it has a vertical
fuel rail so it would separate out the fuel would go to the top the water would go to the
bottom the bottom three cylinders wouldn't run the top would run great you know so
that through us now we know it has a vertical fuel rail okay it could be fuel but we're going
to take care of the engine by putting a good water separator in the line and we don't even know where
that fuel came from is one tank i had in a storage unit somewhere like that and it was at night and
we just dumped the whole thing and the other thing to do is while we're running down the river if we
have the fuel don't dump the bottom part of any tank in unless you can check it because you know
they sit around on a boat they could get water all good lessons at the end of another gorgeous day
well it's the second crop of mayflies are out you know what you get used to them
look at that rope there it's like a beard is just covered solid with them there's
hundreds of species of them and they're all related to the same family as dragonflies
spiders are eating well and all the fish are eating well so everything is fed
well this just paddled up what's your name james workman and where are you from
uh hutchinson kansas and that's where you put in yes very same place i put in every time i
kayaked the river before yeah and you're going all the way to where new orleans
jeez in this rig and i'm worried about this one have you done it before no this is uh longest i've
ever been all right well well done 32 days haven't died yet well how do people keep track of you tick
tock yeah mental supplies it's spelled wrong all right spell it for me it's mental spelled l
e instead of af so you got wheels on the kayak so you can haul it out go ashore so
you're camping yeah so if i ever hit like a boat ramp that's right up there i can pull right the
boat right you stand here today yeah so you do this mainly in the mornings to avoid the heat
yeah yeah like i got the shirt right here to cover the legs trying to keep most of my body covered
and you got some solar charging stuff there yeah okay quick charger probably like a week before it
runs out right just sitting there and the bag must have like sleeping bag and lightweight stuff in it
uh tent and then i got like a little blow up air mattress all the inner tent stuff lots of fans
then uh cooking gear but that's really just like one of those little camp stoves yeah propane thing
right why don't you come on board see my boat i've seen yours uh tie up right up to that yeah that'd
be fine oh yeah we've i wrecked the snot out of it the other day but that's on the list of things to
fix but it'll work for you well my inline water fuel separators have arrived and i like them
got them off amazon and it's really nice they come with four ports so you can let it flow through or
you can rig it up like this you just plug off the other two so it comes in and goes back out
and it's got a drain down here on the bottom so i got these smaller ones because i can open up
that drain and then i keep a little cup down below there to catch the water and we should
be in good shape and this one's going to go on the other boat just because and i'll also keep a spare
filter in here so now we'll just fill it up and check for leaks open that up and bleed off the air
yeah she's slowly filling up should be ready to go
well i'm going to check on the fuel tanks and add some preservative it's a fuel conditioner stuff
helps the biocide stay away these tanks turned out to be a lot bigger than i thought they were
they are about 340 gallons each and so every time i move fuel around i take a measurement
see how much fuel i got at that level i can pump a known quantity out into the day tank and then dip
it again and a little right where i'm at 19 and 3 8. so the day tank has measurements on it and
that tells me you know how many gallons i actually moved and then i could dip it again and i know how
many gallons are between these two measurements eventually i build up a profile for the whole tank
right now it says i got 340 gallons in each tank that's 680 gallons in just two tanks i got
uh four more now the wing tanks are probably a little smaller but the two in the backs are
actually bigger so we have a lot of fuel capacity much more than i expected and i put a little bit
of this gasoline on the dipstick so if there's any water in the tank it'll show up as red where
it hits water it's nice no water now a gallon of this treats 400 gallons so i should be about
right by just splitting it and we're listing a bit to starboard today so we'll pump fuel
out of the starboard tank yeah i broke down got myself a set of these fancy uh nipix adjustable
wrenches they're kind of like a wrench and like a crescent wrench too you can adjust the head down
real well and if you get it just right you can tighten and then you can loosen with your hand
that a little bit and the pliers will open up and you can just back so i might like them more later
on let's see so we open up the sight glass so we're 30 35 40 41 gallons and back and there's
the manifold for the draw i got the valve open for the forward starboard tank turn the pump back
75 gallons and that means we've dropped 34. okay 19 and an 8 19 and 1 8 so between 19 and
an eighth and 21 and three quarters there is 34 gallons so we add that bit of data into our
notes and figure out what the total is i think now we're 340 still on each side
okay here's something you need to be aware of when you mess with your fuel system so the fuel tank
sits inside of black box obviously it gets nice and toasty in there right and this cap supposed to
relieve the pressure some of them you got a little valve that you gotta turn and open here and that
should be left open when it's 103 like it is today because it pressurizes the system up too much and
it just squirts fuel out from the filter i mean it literally leaked around the hose and it's a nice
tight fitting it's just way too much pressure for those filters and this west marine tank's supposed
to vent through this top piece here and it just holds way too much pressure so what it did instead
is it pumped about a gallon of fuel into the black box so i had to clean all that up
i wish the federal government would get out of the fuel can business ball in there is just way
too tight so let me try it now and watch it like a hawk back it off let it get around the threads
too thank you very much federal imbeciles see this tank up here has this little screw top on
i got to leave that open you're supposed to leave the clothes and i won't leave it open
in the summer it just pressurized up so much that was leaking out around that hose right there and
this o-ring down here it's horrible i mean they're trying to prevent fuel leaks and they're doing
just the opposite this is john and [ __ ] and look at this this is the watercraft they uh visited on
our coma a-r-k-o-m-a i didn't even know that was a town we didn't either
if you want to come out and see the boat you're welcome to do so do it uh on a saturday if you
best can that way we can get everybody out here and i can waste one day instead of john
and [ __ ] wasting what is this day i don't even know what it's not a saturday though
friday it's friday so you're close we're getting grimed up it's a new rule yeah so if you can come
see us we love to have visitors but try it on a saturday that way i lose one day a week
you're not you're taller than i am how did you get pee-wee dude i'm wearing boots
we showed up here today on you're in a hurley yeah
out of kansas awesome yeah so okay it's still gonna be saturday okay saturday man
you've got a tight fit in there with all that gear so damn precarious
yes life of a kayak ain't it see captain all right keep it upright we'll see you downstream
okay if you want to live life courageously bring courageous people into your life
well that's it for this video thanks for joining us i hope you get out in
your shop and enjoy building something i know i do especially on the water
what'd you make today
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