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As far as looking at the computer, the computer is not going to show you if it was broken properly
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So I think people think the computer is a little bit more advanced than it really is
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Most of the computers, they're not going to show if you did a break-in period
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does is as soon as the engine's running, it starts recording and it records the time and the
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RPM. So if you're running at 1,000 RPMs, it's just going to be recording the amount of time
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that you're running at 1,000 RPM. If you run at 1,500, 2,000, 3,000, it's going to run that
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timer based on those RPM ranges. Most of them go from like, you know, 7,500.000
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to a thousand or you know say it goes from zero to a thousand from a thousand one to two thousand
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from two thousand to three thousand three thousand one to four thousand four thousand one to five
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thousand you breaks it down like that and then it just shows you that exact thing right there
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it'll get up to wide up and throttle and it'll say you know 60 to 50 plus meaning that you've
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gone above that and then it just records that time so whenever you're
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you pull that report and that rundown, all that shows you is that, you know, the engine has
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been ran for 15 hours under 1,000 RPM, 20 hours between 1,000 and 2,000, 500 hours at
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2,000 to 3,000. You know, I mean, it's going to give you just a number and an RPM range
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it doesn't show you anything about whether or not it was broken properly or not because
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break in process is a little bit different than that you know you're just you're just
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varying the r pms and getting the rings to seat so you know after the first 10 hours after the first 100 hours you going to have no idea No one going to be able to see anything
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about how it was ran during the break-in process. So given that, no, there's not any way to show
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you know, how the engine was broken in. And it's not really a design flaw
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it's just how an internal combustion engine works. Like it's how metal, I mean, it's just how it works
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There's not really any way around it. You're talking about, you know, piston rings, a compression ring
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a combustion chamber, heat, and, you know, the cylinder walls. So it's this component wearing itself into place
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and, you know, it doesn't matter if it's a car, it doesn't matter if it's a lawnmower
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it doesn't matter if it's, you know, an outboard, like a combustion engine, those components
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like they wear in how they wear in. It's just kind of what it is
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So it's not really a design fall. It's just internal combustion engine burning gasoline
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So I don't know if I'd call it a design flaw. It's just kind of how it is
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And then also on top of that, the load. So the mapping and the
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load that's on the engine, you know, which is the big difference on why you see it more
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and outwards than you see it in cars because it's a less load. So, no, I mean, they're not, I mean, they're not going to really, there's nothing to really
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cover, I guess, is what they're going to say, you know, there, you know, there's nothing
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there's nothing that can be done really. I mean, figure out why it's doing that and then try and try and fix it
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usually you can get those rings to see if you get them hot and you get if it's a carbon
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problem you know whatever it is you can usually get to stop on the 3.3 liters when it was a
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brand new plasma fuse cylinder walls because of how hard the cylinder walls were that
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was kind of a learning experience there they still going to say say that it the you know appearance of making oil or fuel dilution But you know that the only one you know the shows and stuff like that
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Usually the ones that are doing that, as soon as you get the prop right and start running it right
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like by and large, most of them all the problem goes away
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So that's, you know, kind of my take on that. Jack Gonzalez, thank you for the comment
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I'm going to be paraphrasing this a little bit. He says that my tachometer
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has never worked and the one that was on the boat when I bought it actually caught fire
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So I replaced, but have never got readings that made sense. My tack jump around like crazy when I start the motor
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Once I get going, it either reads zero or on occasion it will read between 1,000 and 2,000
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RPM regardless where the throttle is. So Jack, tachometer is an og tachometer
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it only reads a pulse signal that comes from the engine. Now, most likely, if you've got a brand new tech in there
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as long as, you know, depending on the brand, there are some aftermarket tax that are kind of like questionable out the box
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But as long as you've got, you know, a decent tack, it could, you know, just an og tack
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all it does is take power, ground, and it takes a pulse signal, and that basically gives you the RPM
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It's very simple. So as long as you have it hooked up correctly
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sounds like you do because it'll go zero one to two so it will change so that means that the power
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and the ground are right but the sense wire which is reading that pulse from the stator coming in
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um most likely between the tack seeing that's a brand new tack in your engine most likely that
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wire somewhere is messed up because if it was a problem with the engine you like like if it was
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your stator your trigger and all that stuff that was messing up because that's where it kind of gets
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that signal, depending on which engine you have, the engine would be running, it wouldn't be running
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right because the tack signal is also used on most models as either the trigger or the crank
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position sensor. And so if that sensor is messed up, then the engine's going to be messed up as far as
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like how it running It going to have a running issue But if you don have a running issue then most likely from the engine where that wire comes out to the tack somewhere that wire messed up whether that be in a connection point or it got nicks somewhere or it got resistance you know whatever this situation
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may be, most likely that wire is messed up somewhere. So I'd be tracing that wire and figuring that
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out, depending on what engine you have. Fake name says what's the best way to get boat weight
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when there's no manufacturing info available or that I can find 16 foot aluminum
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run about 1977, Springbok Rocket 3. You go to the way station, bro
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That's be my first thing to do. That's how I pretty much, you know, you can either go to a marina with a forklift
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They could weigh it. So like if you're, you know, near somewhere near a marina, you can, you know, if it's on the water and they have a forklift
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you can just drive the boat over there. They might, they'll probably charge you whatever they might charge you
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to pick the boat up out of the water. Look at the scale and tell you how much
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of waves or you can just go to a way station. So go to a recycle center, a, trying to think of what else would be like, you can go to a landfill
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a recycle center, a dump, you know, somewhere like that, a way station
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And depending on the state that you live in, some of them, a lot of them, it's free
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so you just go there with your truck and your trailer in the boat you get your weight take the boat
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get it off the trailer come back weigh truck and trailer and then boom you know you had you'll get
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your weight difference based on that account for how far you drive in do you have a full tank of fuel
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do you not have a full thing you know that kind of deal but other than that yeah i go with the way
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station landfill recycle center depending on where you're at in those companies a lot of them will
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have even maybe even a wrecking center, a junkyard. You know, some of them might have a scale that you can use, you know, you could, or some
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of them might even let you just pull up on there, unhook it, and just weigh the trailer
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but also depending on the state, some of it would be free, but that's going to be what I would do
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