Used Too MUch When It Was New
Chuck Newton would have said, "She was used too much when she was new." Seems like that quote is perfect here.....
I was fishing once with PeeWee Horn in Needles, and our 25 Evinrude tossed a rod..PeeWee was the type that liked to go fishing and he sure as hell wasn't going to let a little thing like a busted rod mess up his fishing...So, after the motor had taken a "DUMP", PeeWee started rowing to the "Glory Hole" where we'd caught many a large mouth bass....
As Pee Wee was rowing, it entered my mind that "A", we'd be out of beer before we ever got to the "Glory Hole" and "B", if we ever got there how in the hell would we ever get back???
So, as Pee Wee was rowing, I took pair of vise grips and busted a big hole in the crank case...I pushed the rod up to the head, and the engine turned over. I pulled the spark plug wire off and fired that mother up on one cyclinder.
That two cyclinder Evinrude ran like a song on one cyclinder...Lucky for us we didn't run out of beer...caught a bass or two. One cast, my line went around a tree branch and on about the third "TWIRL", a bass hit my plastic worm...Bass is hanging there, flopping around like a wet seal, ...PeeWee won't go get it because he's got one hook up after another, after another...
Never went fishing with PeeWee after that...but that one cyclinder Evinrude ran fine....that night.
Make that Mercury V-6 into a V-5......We ran our Ski Boat on five cyclinders all summer...a little slow out of the hole, but we got there!!!!