Will Our FREE Abandoned Yacht Start ?!

Welcome back to another episode. We're here with the Cruiser Yacht, the free abandoned yacht that you guys saw Tim Gentry from Gentry's Trucking, tow up here to one of my storage areas. And man, every time I pull up, I'm reminded about how big this thing really is. So I'm glad you guys are along to see if we can get this thing started. Welcome back to Rebuild Rescue. And guys, don't forget, make sure if you didn't subscribe yet, go ahead and hit that button, become a subscriber, be part of the Rebuild Rescue crew. So one of the things that happens when you are doing projects at multiple locations and just working on getting a ton of things done, you end up with tools all over the place. So on the way here to work on the yacht today, I had to stop and get every tool that we would need. All right, so we got all the tools unloaded. It's just really tough not having your tools when you're ready to do a job and you just feel all out of sorts. But I think we got enough tools to dig in. Last thing I need is another broken leg. Kind of forgot about how dirty this thing is. Wasn't there something over top of this? I could have swore there was a seat right here. Maybe not. Oh, there's the back of it. All right, that's the back. All right, that goes over there, but I thought there was like a fold-out seat. That was right there. Maybe not. I don't know. Or maybe it's, oh, right there it is. Nevermind. It looks like it might've come loose. And now it's right over there. Yeah, so we're up here in the yacht. And actually, I just realized that I forgot the keys. They're at my house. So that makes starting the yacht really difficult. Can I hotwire a yacht? Can't say I've ever done that before. Previously on Yacht Repo. In the last video, before Tim had towed this up here, we talked a little bit about what the plans are for this yacht. We're gonna get this yacht running. A lot of you guys, when I asked what charity speaks to you, brought up different charities that help veterans. We're about helping veterans. One of our viewers, Don, has been such an awesome guy. He's always sending emails just inspiring us, you know, telling us that he's behind us. I really appreciate it. He's a disabled veteran. It's gonna go to helping veterans. If you guys know a veteran, you guys have someone in your family, your friend, honor them, post their name in the comments, thank them for their service. You know, my grandfather, he was a disabled vet. My great-grandfather, my great-great-grandfather, all the way back to the Civil War, were veterans. We need to appreciate them. We need to support them. And here at Rebuild Rescue, we're gonna start doing that with this build. It's gonna take a while, could take a year, but that's what we're doing with it. You guys get to follow along, you guys get to help us. So I'm wondering where the batteries are in here. I'm thinking they're probably down here with the engines. Or they were down here with the engines. So there's a spot for a battery. And there should be a spot over, yeah. So there's a spot over in both places for a battery. I don't know why, but for this project, I'm getting a little bit, I'm thinking a little bit more that we should start cleaning the whole project before we work on them because I'm kind of getting tired of working on dirty stuff. We've got the generator down there and we have places for two batteries down there. And when I say down there, it's like four feet down there. But if you look around the outside of this whole assembly, this whole cover, it's about five foot by seven foot. This whole cover comes up out of here and it exposes the engines in their entirety. You can even, if you want, you can even pull the seats out over here and get those up out of the way just to give you room. It looks like to me that the right engine was worked on. The left engine looks like it's still intact. You know, it's just the cover that was pulled off on this. So I'm not sure, you know, what all would be wrong with it. What the issue is, I've bought a couple of boats in the past where they've, you know, people didn't winterize them right. The freeze out plugs come out or the block cracks, you know, or they just, they just blow up. You know, the crank will go out. Some bearings will go out because on these boat motors, you're turning them hard. You're turning them, you know, 4,000 RPM for hours, hours on end. Sometimes you can have some cooling problems. One of the cool things about this boat is it has its own cooling system. So the coolant of whatever body of water you're in comes into the boat and it cools its cooling system, but it has its own coolant in the engines, which usually keeps them, so you don't have to winterize them as much. It's a little bit different the way you do winterize them. And it's just a better system. It's self-contained. You don't have any seawater coming into the engines. So it's a much better system. And this particular boat has seven four liter multipoint injection. So it's a Chevrolet Vortec based 454 fuel injected tune port engine, which it's a good engine. It's got lots of torque. I actually have two 454 big blocks from the boat I had. Sticking those engines in here would be a little crazy. I mean, it would be a 1,300, 1,400 horsepower yacht, which isn't a bad thing, but it probably wouldn't get very good fuel mileage. So I think we're gonna stick for something like a fuel injected engine, a lot more dependable anyway. See what it's like down there, getting down in there to drop batteries in and stuff. I wanted to see what size battery. It doesn't look all that bad in there. I think I'm gonna crawl down there and take a look around. After doing the first video on this yacht, I had a bunch of people asking, you know, where's the yacht? You know, why aren't you working on it yet? Are you gonna start working on it? Just been waiting for this leg to heal up a bit. If you look down here, it's like a four or five foot difference and you're really contorted to get down in here. I've worked on a ton of boats before and I knew how it was gonna be. So fortunately, the doctor told me that I could get off my crutches yesterday. I could put weight on it a couple of weeks ago. Well, I may or may not have been walking on it for the last couple of weeks anyway. Hopefully my doctor doesn't see this, but now I'm pretty good. It hurts a bunch, but at least we can get down in here and work on stuff. All right, let's go to the parts store and let's see if they have batteries big enough for this boat. So we're heading up here at Advanced Auto Parts. They usually have a pretty good inventory marine batteries. We'll see what they got. Two batteries and some nuts and bolts, $397. So we got back from the parts store. We have some batteries. I unfortunately forgot that I had the keys for this at my house. So I'm gonna see what kind of ignition switches are in here. Make sure you don't miss me falling off the back of the boat. It's great content. Put a post in the comments. How long is it gonna take Jason to fall off the back of the boat and break his other leg? Don't worry, if I miss it, I'll just get you to do it again. Okay, we'll just reshoot. You're all heart, brother. Just curious to see also in here with this sitting outside uncovered for so long. You can see a lot of the connections down in here are corroded. Use the corrosion on there. It's not terrible, but every single one of these wires is gonna have to be removed one at a time. And all these connections all scrubbed up and coated with something just so we don't have like these electrical gremlins that we'd be chasing all the time. I was gonna hot wire this, but I decided we got so much stuff to do today and it's so hot out here anyway. So we're gonna get the batteries put in. We'll get some penetrating fluid in both engines and we'll take a look around the engine area and see what all we're gonna need. We'll go pick it up, make sure we have it. Tomorrow when we get back here, I'll make sure I got the keys so I'm not blowing fuses while I'm hot wiring it. Just not a good idea. Hey guys, we're here working on the free abandoned yacht and we wanted to take a minute to introduce our sponsor, Roman. Roman offers prescription ED medications that are safe, effective, and 100% FDA approved. I really care about your health. I want you guys to be confident. I want you to be comfortable. Just like we have to put some work in to rebuild things like this yacht, you have to be willing to put some work into yourself. Man oh man, ED isn't anything that you should be ashamed of or shy about. ED will affect 52% of men sometime in their life. But Roman does make it real simple to connect with a physician. 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So it looks like this cover was off either that or it just never was put on correctly. But somebody mentioned to me that they thought this engine was bad, but the boat sat around in that boat yard for so many years that people just kind of came and went and nobody really remembers much about this boat. Right there is the seawater strainer. I think that's what it's called. So that's where the water comes in from under the boat that then runs in to cool the engine off. There's another one and there's one back over here as well. The tops are off of them. You'll see it's just kind of laying right down here. It just flips over, that wing nut tightens it up. My hopes are it was parked and stored and there was coolant in there. So it was winterized and we can put them together, maybe put new gaskets in, clean the strainers and they'll be good. That would be best case. Worst case, they were never winterized. It's all frozen up and the whole thing is destroyed and we'll have to put all new engines in. Everything actually looks pretty good though. I'm not seeing anything that has me really, really worried. We can fire it up out of the water without having water hooked to it. However, a couple of things can happen. A, your suction pump for the seawater isn't gonna be happy if you run it too long. You probably shouldn't run it at all or if much at all, but we are because we don't have any water where we're at. So I'm not afraid just to fire it up a little bit, let it run for a second or two and shut it off. Even looking down here at the accessories, I'm looking at the alternator and man, it's just got a ton of rust on it. I mean, look at this thing. So I don't know what the chances are that the water pump would be locked up. Looking at all the accessories down here and they're just, they're so corroded, they're so rusted up. You know, it's gonna be interesting to see what's good and what's not. I have a feeling that we'll end up replacing all those pulleys on the front and putting two water pumps in, putting alternators in because it's one thing to be driving down the road and have an engine, an alternator, a water pump go out. It's another thing to be out in the middle of the ocean and have one of those go out. I mean, it's almost as bad as being up in the air and having something go out. I'd much rather be in water than in the air though. See what kind of oil we got, if any. And that's really good. So we got fresh oil in that engine and it smells good. My bet would be that it was changed before it was parked, before it was, when it was winterized. Let's check the other engine. Yeah, and it's got brand new oil in it as well. So that's a good sign. Hmm, pulling 16 plugs out is like a ton of work. What's the chance to just turn it over and see if it'll start? A guy might think that it might just turn over and it may not need any penetrating fluid. Ooh, did I just say something won't need penetrating fluid? I must not be feeling well today. So what do you think, Harrison? I think let it rip. Let it rip? Yeah, let it rip. Just turn it over. Yeah. Just put some juice to it. Yeah, let's just see what happens. Just see what happens. Yeah. Hmm, kind of goes against every fiber of my fan of penetrant. Could this be the best free abandoned boat though if it does start? Free abandoned yacht. Could this be the best free abandoned yacht if it turns over without putting anything in it? Yeah. But what if a ring catches and it breaks a ring? Yeah. Penetrant helps you from breaking rings. How about we pull a plug out, we'll take a look at that cylinder, see what that looks like, and we'll go from there. Plug wire looks pretty good. Do you want to get me the ratchet and extensions and the spark plug sockets? Gotcha. Thank you. So apparently this had the oil change and brand new plugs put in at some point because you can see there's only a tiny bit of carbon on the backside of this plug. The porcelain looks really good. The gap's perfect. And it's an NGK-R plug, resistor plug. And this is a newer style plug. So pretty much when it was parked, it looks like this was put in. So that was either because they were trying to figure out what was wrong with this engine. And one of the things they did is put plugs in it, or they were just maintained. This was just maintained well. It's got new oil in it. The plug looks new. Honestly, at this point, I feel like it'd be a little bit of a waste of time to go through this whole engine and pull the plugs out and put penetrating fluid in there because I don't wanna do it. I mean, because I think it's gonna be good. I mean, I don't know. Honestly, something too. The inside, the interior was pretty well kept. Yeah. Besides some dirt. So, I mean, the person might've kept this thing up to date and they just sat outside for a while. Yeah, I agree. You're 100% right. So I got a little bit of penetrant down on that cylinder. I'm gonna throw this plug back in here. That's in. I'm just trying to figure out how to get the other one out. So there's another YouTuber I saw that has a yacht he's been working on. I think it's like an Italian yacht or something. And he pulled two huge diesels out and he's getting ready to put two LS, like supercharged LS engines in. I think they're like big block LS or something. They're really cool engines. I wish I had those two engines to put in here because it's already a gas powered boat and it would be a relatively easy installation compared to what they're trying to do. I haven't seen any updates on that video. That looked like a really cool project. Actually, what I'm seeing is I could see a little bit of kind of oil on the plug, but it's not motor oil. So one of the things that I do when I winterize my boats, I've had a couple of different ones, is I'll actually fog the boat. So I'll have it running and I'll literally put fogger in the intake and it'll shut off because there's so much misting oil coming down through the intake. It totally coats the cylinders and it keeps them from rusting out. The other plug had a little bit of oil film on it. This one had a bunch, but the plug again, it looks like brand new. So chances are, I have a feeling that this was winterized. These engines were both fogged. That's my hopes anyway. But I'll throw a little bit of penetrating fluid in there anyway. I think I'll go along this. Which side is this? This side of the engine. I don't know if this is the left or the right, but in the boat, it'd be the left side of the engine on the right engine, if that makes any sense. If they look good, I'm not crawling underneath there and pulling those out. One of the things I'm finding, it's always one of the things. This would be like the 16th thing I'm finding. One of the things I'm finding on this, everything seems to be kept pretty well. Even when I pulled the spark plug boots off, there's dielectric grease in there. The last person that was working on this knew what they were doing. I think it was fogged. I think there was a tune-up done recently. It's got fresher oil, newer plugs. Really feeling good about this. Really feeling good. If you look, there's a little bit of shiny film on there. This thing was definitely fogged. But the plug looks really good. It has a little bit of carbon on one side, has a little bit of oil film on it. I'm feeling really good. We got this side done. I noticed I pulled the cap off of the, this would be kind of the radiator. I don't even know what you call it. Did open this up. The left engine over here does have coolant in. This one has no coolant in, which worries me a little bit. Maybe this is the bad engine. Maybe it blew a head gasket or something. And that's why there's nice film on the plugs. And that's why this is empty. I don't know. We'll find out. And we'll pull the cap off here and see if it has any corrosion. I've worked on a few boats that didn't run after being stored, even for one season. And so many times it is the rotor that is completely corroded. None of the contacts are doing what they're supposed to do. And this is what I was talking about. This is what I was wondering if I was going to see. There's barely any corrosion on the rotor. So this would have been, it's not a brand new rotor. You can see there's a little bit, but it's in really good shape. And they did use some dielectric grease in here, which nobody ever does. It's the right thing to do to keep it from corroding. You can see the inside of the distributor here. It's a different story. There's a little bit of corrosion on here. A little bit of rust, but this is in really good shape. Let's grab the batteries and we'll get the batteries installed. Things are huge. Hopefully they fit. I want to check these transmissions, make sure they have fluid before we fire this thing up. So we don't want to start up if for some reason this transmission is dry. Here's a dipstick that looks a little rusty. Get some lube on both of these. A little penetrant goes a long way and a lot of penetrant goes even further. I think I'll get these cables down here as well. That folks, just like the oil in the engine, that is a thing of beauty. So normally with any type of transmission fluid, if it's burnt or something like that, you can smell it. It'll literally smell burnt. This smells brand new. So it passes the sniffer test and it looks brand new. It smells brand new. It's got plenty of fluid in it. I'm stoked. That transmission, that velvet drive transmission, which a velvet drive transmission is very much like a Powerglide two-speed transmission. It's just that it has one speed. The coolest thing when you have these velvet drives in and you have a boat with a true transmission in it is you can change the from forward to reverse without getting the big bangs and clunks. And it's just, it's more of a better power transfer. It's a lot smoother. So if you can see right here, it has a tiny little bit of transmission fluid in it. It is new, it's not burnt. The way these actually work, if you look at the markings on here, the markings start here and it goes to full when it's hot. So it can be anywhere when it's cold from here to like halfway up and it's good. So I would say this fluid level is good, but we are gonna have to run it and circulate it and get it warm and then recheck it. Cause it could be a, maybe a quart or two low. All right, yesterday we went through the engine on the right side on the yacht and we got one of the batteries in, but I realized I forgot the keys. So ran home last night, got a good night's rest. Now we have the keys and we're gonna see if we can get this thing started. Let's go. So we're gonna get the battery on the right side. I don't have the positive side hooked up yet. I didn't want to hook it up yesterday without being around the boat with voltage just in case something happened. So we're gonna hook that up now and then we should be able to see if that cranks because I think that is the battery to the right engine. Put a regular nut on, let's see if that powers it up. All right, we got voltage to this right engine, none to the left. So yeah, the batteries are specific to the right and the left. So the throttle actually doesn't move pretty much at all. So we're gonna have to take a look at that, get this cover off of here and that'll allow us to get some lubrication down in here. It's been getting rained on for who knows how long. There's where the cables come in and how the quadrant's all set up there. It's pretty simple. Just has two really large cables here. They're push-pull cables that run up to the quadrant and this just rotates and that's how it works. Looks like that throttle runs right up into here. Here's the cable and it hooks up to the throttle body. Let's see if that helps any. All right, that loosened right up. It's still a little bit tight. You can see it's got some dirt that's coming out of the quadrant there. So at some point we'll pull that completely out, disassemble it, clean up all the internals and make it work like new. All right, gets a little bit of lube on that other throttle cable on the other engine. So we'll pull this cover off and we'll get this other throttle quadrant all lubed up. So it is good to go. One thing that is nice about having two engines is if one breaks down and you're out in the ocean or just somewhere, you can still get back. So just like an airplane, you've got two engines, you can fly on one. It's not as easy to fly on one engine than two in a twin engine or a twin boat, twin engine boat. But it gives you backup. So this has a separate fuel tank, complete separate systems left and right, which is awesome. This is the perfect boat to go to the Bahamas. And I can't wait, because I've never taken a boat further than right out in the ocean. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Hopefully we don't sink, but I can't promise anything. I will try not to though. And I might bring someone with me who knows what they're doing. I actually think Tim Gentry from Gentry and Sons Trucking said he has a whole bunch of experience with boats. So he might be getting drafted. Tim, we're going to the Bahamas, buddy. It'd be real nice to get this back to the shop when we can, and really pressure wash this whole engine bay area, because it does have just a lot of junk in it. And it'd be nice to clean this out. I have a feeling this will clean up really good. Here we got that throttle quadrant, or throttle cable. You can see it's got a little bit of corrosion on there. So we will fix that. Can you go up and just move that throttle, the left one, just real nice and easy while I spray this up. Go ahead out. Go ahead in. Go ahead out. All right. I'm going to pull these dust caps up as well, so we can get some lubricant, literally down inside the cable. And because this is a lot higher than the engine, if I can pressurize this a little bit, it'll actually run down inside the cables, and these things will move like butter. That works good. So we'll leave it, we'll leave it like that for now. And we'll come back, like I said, and disassemble this whole assembly, and grease it up, take it apart. So it'll be, it'll be a hundred percent. I think we can put this one together, because this is definitely, definitely better. So let's see if it'll turn over. Ooh. All right, we cranked it over for a couple seconds, and it tried to start. And I heard some water spitting out, I think the exhaust or something. Yeah. Yeah, and a whole bunch of water went spitting out of the exhaust over on the right side there. And my car just got hit with old boat exhaust water. Right, let's try that again. It's trying to start. Dude, that was so close. Ooh, it's almost starting. You can see some exhaust over here on the right coming out. Fired up, it fired up. I am going to shut it off. Dude, that was nuts. I know, I know, it fired it up. I mean, after spitting about 10 gallons of water over on my car out of the exhaust, it fired up. It seems like it's running pretty smooth. I can't believe it. Yeah, I know, I know, that was, yeah, it was amazing. I just want to keep starting it now. Yeah. It didn't sound too bad either, like. No, it didn't, but you know what? That engine, it was low on coolant, and I literally just remembered, because that has a closed loop cooling system. We do got to get some, geez, I'm so excited, I can't even think. We do got to get some coolant, some antifreeze, my gosh. It's early in the morning, guys. Yeah, I don't really know what to say. Fired right up. So the interesting thing is, is how much different this is than the 401. There was part of me that was expecting to work on that right engine for like the next six or seven weeks, kind of like the 401. If you guys haven't seen the 401 video yet, there could be some of you that are checking out this yacht video because you like yachts. Go on the channel, check out the free abandoned airplane series that we have on the channel. It's been an amazing journey, and we have so many amazing viewers that have got involved with the actual project. Check it out, man. It's amazing, and that engine, the first one, was way more difficult to get started than this one. Yeah, now, that doesn't mean there's not a problem with it. The head gasket could be blown. There could be all kinds of different issues. I am a little worried about why the antifreeze is low. Or it could just be a small coolant leak or something to water pump, which is really normal on these Vortec engines. According to this, it has zero fuel. So actually, I don't think any of the other gauges besides, oh, nope. Oh, so it does have two fuel gauge. Oops. It does have two fuel gauges. Here's the right fuel gauge, which is going up about a quarter. So I guess it has a right and a left fuel tank. Which is pretty cool. Would that have been ethanol-free? Ethanol-free gas, if it was on the water? Yeah, if it was on the, if they did, and that's a really good point. You know, if they did get gas on the water, which a boat this big, I'm 99% sure that they did get it on the water because it's, you guys saw, it's hard to get this thing out of the water and haul it somewhere. So chances are, they did, you know, it is ethanol-free, which is gonna give it a lot less corrosion. And a lot, it's a lot more stable of a fuel. So luckily, otherwise I promise you, we would be cleaning out injectors. We would be fixing all kinds of things, you know. Aviation fuel and marina fuel is ethanol-free. Two of the best fuels if you're gonna put fuel in something that's going to sit. Otherwise this thing would be a complete and utter corroded, injected system, tanks. It'd be terrible. This point, I'm thinking we just power it up and turn it over and see if it starts. I don't even think I'm gonna check the plugs or anything. I just, as good as that right one looked, and as much like oil steam came out of the exhaust, I'm 99% sure this was fogged way back when, before it was stored. And I have a feeling that left engine's gonna be free. I think I'm gonna fire this up and see if we can rev it a bit now, but we're bringing the RPM up. I did wanna see if the transmission would go in and out of gear in this right side, but that is broke. I think I can do it, but I do wanna be really careful not to run this engine that long because we don't have water coming into the engine's cooling system. Now the engine does have its own cooling system, but there is still a rubber impeller that sucks up the seawater to circulate that water, and you can damage that rubber impeller. However, I'm gonna replace it anyway. They're pretty cheap and pretty easy to replace, and it's great insurance to have those. I mean, I'll do them like every other season. All right, see if we can fire it up. Dude, the propeller spun, everything sounded good. Oh, did the propeller spin too? Just a little bit, just a little bit at the very end, when you really started revving it. I do wanna see what is squeaking. If you could come up here and start it so I can take a look and see what's rotating or not rotating on the accessory drives. So once we start this, I wanna see one of these accessories isn't spinning. I don't know if it's the alternator or the water pump or a bad idler pulley. So we're gonna start it quick. All right, stop. All right, so the one that's not spinning is that bottom pulley right there, which I'm 90% sure is the freshwater pump. So that's the pump that I was just talking about that has a rubber impeller in, and they're known to go out. I've had them go on boats before. So that whole assembly, we're gonna replace anyways. But yeah, that's what's making the noise right now. So we're not gonna start that engine anymore. It just doesn't make sense. But let's see if this other engine starts. So I gotta give credit to Marine Mechanics because these things are so tight to work on. Gotta definitely be a patient person to work on one of these. Do you have a magnet? I do not have one here, but I do have a 15 millimeter. All right, so when I'm looking for the 916th inch gear wrench, you guys are gonna have to remind me where I put it. So I can already see that the whole assembly down there, all the nuts and bolts are all rusted almost out. I think it's gonna be a real interesting job to get all those accessories cleaned up. But the nice thing is we can do it once we get it in the hanger. This project is gonna have to wait a little while. After we get these things started, A, I'm gonna have to start ordering some parts, and B, we're really focused on getting the 401 done. And also we need room in the hanger to put this thing. This thing is huge. And really the hanger is the only place I know of you could fit a boat that's this big. I mean, this thing is tall. It's like 13 foot tall. We're gonna have to move by four airplanes just to fit this in. And we're not gonna be bringing it in until the 401 has the wings off and we have it on a cart so we can move it in and out and around. That 401 project is really gonna start winding down a little bit because we're gonna be dependent on other companies getting work done to it. So we're gonna be dropping off parts. And it's really, there's not gonna be a lot that we can do till we get those parts back. But we have plenty of other projects like this yacht that we're gonna be working on. And we'll be checking in on the 401 in other videos. We'll be putting community posts and we'll be sharing stories about it the whole way. Let's see here. The volt gauge. Something we're definitely gonna have to do. I'm gonna have to reach out to a marine supply company and all of these gauges, this whole assembly, all these buttons, everything, we wanna replace them all. The starboard engine did start. Now on the port side engine, I did not pull the plugs. I did not check the cap. We didn't do anything at all. Just cause I wanna see if it's gonna start. All right. And this key is doing some weird stuff. No idea what it's doing. I've never heard one do that before. So it seems like this key switch is bad. When I turn this key switch on, it's turning on. The fuel gauge is coming up. The oil pressure gauge is setting and the bolts moves up a little bit. So I know that we're getting power here, but as I rotate it, this key, it's not acting right. It's kind of rotating past where it would start. So we got the switch to kind of work, but the Bendix on the starter isn't coming out to engage with the flywheel. May have to pull that starter out. So if you could turn that, I'm gonna tap on this thing and see if we can't get the Bendix to come out. Yep. All right. Hmm. Unfortunately, my knee doesn't bend far enough for me to be able to actually get down in there. It's one of the other reasons I know we're gonna have to wait a little bit to really dig into this one because physically, I can't move the way I need to move to really work on this the right way, which is really frustrating. I think I'm gonna go ahead and pull, I'm gonna go ahead and pull that starter out and see what it looks like. Jeez. I need a quarter inch ratchet and a eight millimeter socket. Cool. Thank you. We could hear that noise down in there was because the shaft that holds the starter, Bendix in place. So this starter Bendix comes when you engage the starter, it spins out like this and engages the flywheel. This was broken and just rattling around in there, which then wasn't allowing this to operate properly. If you see this mark here. So this damage probably happened, I'm thinking when it was installed, at least it was probably cracked or something like that. And then, it probably worked for a while and then had the failure. You can actually even see a crack right here on the main body, which is interesting. It does concern me, I'm thinking maybe the engine might even have been locked up before we started to try to turn it over. So this left engine may be the bad engine. One of the guys had thought that one of the engine was bad and one of them was good yet, that right one might be the good one, this left one, well, it might be the bad one. The only way we're gonna find out is throw a starter in it, try to turn it over and see what it does. Now, it may be that this sound, like when the engine was turning over or running, this may have broke and this may have been bouncing around making a sound while this was running. They may have thought that was a bad crankshaft or something like that. And this may be the only thing wrong with it. It may be the reason this was parked. I'm not sure if this is an automotive starter, I'm pretty sure it is. So we'll go to the auto parts store and we'll get one, we'll put it in, see if we can't fix it. So we went to go get a starter for the engine and discovered as we were looking at the part numbers that it's actually a part number for a left-hand rotating engine. I didn't even think about it, but on these larger yachts, you're gonna find how one of the props is a left rotating one, one is a right rotating one and the engines, one rotates left, one rotates right. That's a left rotating starter. If we would have a right rotating starter in it, it would be very bad. We can't get any around here, we have to order it. We're gonna get it ordered and then we'll see if that engine runs. We're so stoked that the right engine started and it ran really good. The other thing is we know pretty much what parts we need so we can get those parts ordered, we can have them on hand. We're not gonna be able to start this project until we can clear out the hanger a little bit, but we can get all the parts ordered a while. You know, I really appreciate you guys coming along and joining us in these adventures. We really appreciate you being part of the Greenville Rescue crew and part of the community. 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