Re: 18-20-25 Fuel Diverter Cylinders run warmer?

[johnyrude200]

The marina was called Owen’s marine. They went bankrupt 4 times, and finally folded 3 months ago, and I was able to salvage about 40 years worth of parts motors/NOS and various items. Basically they lost their ability to be distributors for all the major brands over the past few years, with each loss essentially being another nail in the coffin so to speak.

There is nothing more depressing then walking around a 8,000sf marina that has been in business for 20 years, and watching, literally, 40 flatbed trucks come in and just take hundreds upon hundreds of motors to the scrap yard indiscriminately. I was there for at least 30 hours straight over the course of 2-3 days going through every rack, closet, shelf, cubby, and bin to try and pull as much stuff as I could to save it from going to scrap. And there was/is stuff that is perfectly usable still there, but at this point the bank owns it, and I don’t think that property will be occupied for a long time based on the soil sample results, it’s one of those situations where they were not disposing of things consistently or safely, and now it’s really bad.

I will say this, when a customer pays $680.00 to have a clutch dog switched out, (later to find out all they did was reverse the thing), that is clearly unethical. All and all, the roots of my education doing repairs stemmed from the $4,000.00 they cost me over the past 5 years, but that’s why I’m in business now, and what I was able to salvage from their location before the sheriff threw the padlocks on, as the saying goes, ‘what goes around comes around’ I guess.

There is another marina just north of me that is family operated and still authorized by BRP for evinrude sales. I have a few stories about them too and some tricks they pulled. I mean, I understand people need to make a living, but to flat out lie to customers just to bilk them for extra $$$ is something I disagree with.