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<blockquote data-quote="Firpo" data-source="post: 4031994" data-attributes="member: 45550"><p>I gots a question for yuz guys in the know. I’m basically a nautical neophyte having purchased my first boat, a 18’ Nitro Fish and Ski with a 115HP Mercury Two Stroke toward the end of last summer. Shortly into her maiden voyage all of a sudden it would barely run so put it back on the trailer and hauled it back to the dealer. Long story short when they were going over the engine they managed to kink an oiler line and it galled two of the pistons. Yikes! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😱" title="Face screaming in fear :scream:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" data-shortname=":scream:" /> dealer is Larry’s Marine out of Wichita Falls and a standup place. They completely rebuilt the engine so basically it’s a brand new motor needing to be broken as if it rolled of the production line last week. Now the problem…..or so I’m told. Because everything has yet to be broken-in it’s very tight and not wanting to idle which makes pulling up to a dock or loading on a trailer a challenge as it wants to die every time I shift into gear either forward or reverse. So! Here’s my question. Would it be acceptable to run it in my driveway for an hour here and there to help with the process and if not do you have any other suggestions? Yes, I understand time on the lake is best but that’s not always possible. Also any idea of how long it could take before things settle?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Firpo, post: 4031994, member: 45550"] I gots a question for yuz guys in the know. I’m basically a nautical neophyte having purchased my first boat, a 18’ Nitro Fish and Ski with a 115HP Mercury Two Stroke toward the end of last summer. Shortly into her maiden voyage all of a sudden it would barely run so put it back on the trailer and hauled it back to the dealer. Long story short when they were going over the engine they managed to kink an oiler line and it galled two of the pistons. Yikes! 😱 dealer is Larry’s Marine out of Wichita Falls and a standup place. They completely rebuilt the engine so basically it’s a brand new motor needing to be broken as if it rolled of the production line last week. Now the problem…..or so I’m told. Because everything has yet to be broken-in it’s very tight and not wanting to idle which makes pulling up to a dock or loading on a trailer a challenge as it wants to die every time I shift into gear either forward or reverse. So! Here’s my question. Would it be acceptable to run it in my driveway for an hour here and there to help with the process and if not do you have any other suggestions? Yes, I understand time on the lake is best but that’s not always possible. Also any idea of how long it could take before things settle? [/QUOTE]
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