alpha intake nut
OK, so my boat's on its trailer in the front yard because of Isabel and
I decide to remove some of the barnacles on it instead of cleaning up lawn debris and while I'm at it I manage to drop the nut that holds the little plastic cooling water intake grate onto the side of my Alpha drive down the propeller exhaust hole! Of course the nut that Mercruiser chose to use isn't the standard size nut for that thread (it's smaller) so I'll have to go by a new one only they probably don't sell just the nut so I'll probably have to buy a whole new outdrive. My real question is (finally) what will having that little nut rattling around in there do? I assume it will fall out as soon as I plop the thing back in the water and start up the engine but is there anything in there it can hurt? |
alpha intake nut
If you go to an automotive parts/accessories store, you can buy a small magnet
on a rod. Perhaps you can fish it out with that. Other than that, I don't know what damage might happen. Possibly none. Joe |
alpha intake nut
"mike hicks" wrote in message ... OK, so my boat's on its trailer in the front yard because of Isabel and I decide to remove some of the barnacles on it instead of cleaning up lawn debris and while I'm at it I manage to drop the nut that holds the little plastic cooling water intake grate onto the side of my Alpha drive down the propeller exhaust hole! Of course the nut that Mercruiser chose to use isn't the standard size nut for that thread (it's smaller) so I'll have to go by a new one only they probably don't sell just the nut so I'll probably have to buy a whole new outdrive. My real question is (finally) what will having that little nut rattling around in there do? I assume it will fall out as soon as I plop the thing back in the water and start up the engine but is there anything in there it can hurt? Pick up your boat and hold it over your head, then rotate it every which way it while shaking it. The nut should fall right out. Of course at that point it will just get lost in all the lawn debris that you didn't clean up because you decided to fart around with your outdrive instead. If that doesn't work, perhaps you could remove the prop and run the engine on muffs. Rev the engine a couple of times while in neutral (very briefly, they don't like high RPM's while on the muffs) and see if you can blow the nut out from exhaust pressure. Probably would be a good idea to put a tarp or something underneath the drive so that if the nut does come out, you have half a chance of finding it. |
alpha intake nut
Send me a SASE and I will send you a nut. Or , you could take the prop off
and fish out the one you dropped. Jim :-) "mike hicks" wrote in message ... OK, so my boat's on its trailer in the front yard because of Isabel and I decide to remove some of the barnacles on it instead of cleaning up lawn debris and while I'm at it I manage to drop the nut that holds the little plastic cooling water intake grate onto the side of my Alpha drive down the propeller exhaust hole! Of course the nut that Mercruiser chose to use isn't the standard size nut for that thread (it's smaller) so I'll have to go by a new one only they probably don't sell just the nut so I'll probably have to buy a whole new outdrive. My real question is (finally) what will having that little nut rattling around in there do? I assume it will fall out as soon as I plop the thing back in the water and start up the engine but is there anything in there it can hurt? |
alpha intake nut
Hehehe
In the time it took to type the question - I couldda fished the nut out. Tough room today......... LOL -W ".JIMinMA." wrote in message ... Send me a SASE and I will send you a nut. Or , you could take the prop off and fish out the one you dropped. Jim :-) "mike hicks" wrote in message ... OK, so my boat's on its trailer in the front yard because of Isabel and I decide to remove some of the barnacles on it instead of cleaning up lawn debris and while I'm at it I manage to drop the nut that holds the little plastic cooling water intake grate onto the side of my Alpha drive down the propeller exhaust hole! Of course the nut that Mercruiser chose to use isn't the standard size nut for that thread (it's smaller) so I'll have to go by a new one only they probably don't sell just the nut so I'll probably have to buy a whole new outdrive. My real question is (finally) what will having that little nut rattling around in there do? I assume it will fall out as soon as I plop the thing back in the water and start up the engine but is there anything in there it can hurt? |
alpha intake nut
I doubt that tool would pick up THAT nut.
"JLSAVARD" wrote in message ... If you go to an automotive parts/accessories store, you can buy a small magnet on a rod. Perhaps you can fish it out with that. Other than that, I don't know what damage might happen. Possibly none. Joe |
alpha intake nut
Start it up in the driveway with muff and see if it comes out.
"mike hicks" wrote in message ... OK, so my boat's on its trailer in the front yard because of Isabel and I decide to remove some of the barnacles on it instead of cleaning up lawn debris and while I'm at it I manage to drop the nut that holds the little plastic cooling water intake grate onto the side of my Alpha drive down the propeller exhaust hole! Of course the nut that Mercruiser chose to use isn't the standard size nut for that thread (it's smaller) so I'll have to go by a new one only they probably don't sell just the nut so I'll probably have to buy a whole new outdrive. My real question is (finally) what will having that little nut rattling around in there do? I assume it will fall out as soon as I plop the thing back in the water and start up the engine but is there anything in there it can hurt? |
alpha intake nut
JLSAVARD wrote:
If you go to an automotive parts/accessories store, you can buy a small magnet on a rod. Perhaps you can fish it out with that. Other than that, I don't know what damage might happen. Possibly none. Joe I have one of those dohickeys but the nut is stainless and so won't be attracted by the magnet. The biggest problem is it's dark and spooky in there and I can't see the little jewel. It probably bounced back out and is lying in the lawn debris. BTW- we finally got our power back on last night, 11 days with no cable (and cold showers). |
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