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Location: Kodiak, AK | Pikemagnet- Did you have pee when you turned the motor on in the shallow water, or did you only notice you didn't have pee after you'd run it for a while? I was thinking you started it up normally and it ran fine and then stopped peeing. Reading that you forgot to trim it up, I'm under the impression that the motor was down in the water dragging bottom. I ask because if you were that shallow and had the motor up high enough, where the pump was above the water line, you may indeed have burned the pump. Those pumps are not self-priming and they have to be at or below the waterline to get water into them. After they're primed, you can run them on plane, which bring the pump above water. But if you ran the motor without the pump priming, then you did likely burn the pump. A pump that ran hot would still pump water after you primed it (albeit at low PSI), but I saw one once where the actual housing melted and a chunk came off and got up into the uptake line and stopped flow. In that case, the motor also suffered damage from overheating; the head warped.
Edited by esoxfly 12/9/2009 3:34 PM
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