Yamaha makes color matched spray paint. I have a can of it and it looks like I live near you. If it is something you want to try let me know. This matched a 2006 F150.

Check to see if they are the same length as the ones you currently use or that they will fit your your popper gun. I have a starter pistol that I use for training that uses short blanks. I bought some blanks made for dummy launchers that were too long and didn’t work, they bottomed out on the cylinder so it couldn’t close. The ones from Menards are probably for the concrete anchor guns they sell and might be a different length.

Check to see if they are the same length as the ones you currently use or that they will fit your your popper gun. I have a starter pistol that I use for training that uses short blanks. I bought some blanks made for dummy launchers that were too long and didn’t work, they bottomed out on the cylinder so it couldn’t close. The ones from Menards are probably for the concrete anchor guns they sell and might be a different length.

I have the same setup on a 14′ boat. I pull start the 15 horse and use a battery from an ice fishing setup. I crimped spade connectors onto the end of the power cable. This makes for a great portable setup that I have used in my truck ice fishing, a kayak, or resort rentals. The battery lasts for hours.

I used to use a lawnmower battery when I was a kid to run an electric trolling motor and sonar but have never tried one to start a motor.

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I did the job myself over the weekend. Parts from Ford came to $313 and I had to add transmission fluid when finished so a few extra dollars for that plus a fluid pump to add the fluid. I did all four lines that go with the transmission cooling system, I figured it was worth the extra $130 dollars or so than just doing the steel lines and I didn’t have the tool to disconnect the quick connect fittings. I contacted a local shop and they quoted me $1340 to do the job and to do the transmission flush and fill recommended at the service interval. My truck has a little over 100,000 miles on it. Transmission service was $350 of that quote. If you decide to buy the parts the dealership will need to know the VIN number, so there must be a couple different versions made.

Pretty straight forward job if you have experience working on cars but running the lines is a pain in the butt and it was messy. If you decide to do it, I found that removing the wires to the starter helps give you more room.

Transmission fluid runs through these lines so I don’t think a coolant leak would be directly related to this exact issue. I am not a mechanic so I can’t say that with 100% certainty though. I had transmission fluid running down the cooling line on the input (drivers) side and dripping off the bottom, that’s how I noticed the problem.

I didn’t mean for the original post to seem as much as a crisis as the linked video seems, but just to give people a heads up and to be aware of a potential problem and to check their truck.

Thank you for the replies and information guys. This is what I was looking for.

I am planning on going to the Sport Show and talking to the people at the Lowrance booth. I was hoping to get some information before that so I had better questions to ask and understood a little more.

I am running my motor information through the HDS8 and fuel usage. I assume if I went with something like a Gen 3 touch or Carbon it would still be able to do that? Motor is a Yamaha F150.

I bought some of the Yamaha spray paint from Hannay’s Marine to touch up my motor. The guys at the parts counter looked up the correct paint number for the year. Apparently the two colors are very close but one has a little more of a blue tint.

Congratulations on the pup. The book by Tom Dokken is a good book. If you don’t mind going old school look into the books by Richard Wolters, especially Game Dog.

My wife, two sons, and myself fished out of the Red Door Saturday evening also. We were anchored in 19′ of water just down from the resort. We had similar results, we had bobbers constantly going down. We ran out of leeches and started putting half a crawler on our hooks, didn’t matter what we put down, the fish would take it. My wife and older son don’t fish much, so this worked out great, there was constant action and they were able to boat a bunch of walleye. It was the best fishing I’ve ever had.

I was in the same situation a couple years ago, I could only afford an older boat if I wanted a set up like the one your looking at. You mentioned you know it will be an older motor. As posted by belletaine, focus on the motor because the boat can be spruced up. Make sure you have the seller start the motor both cold and warm for you. If possible have them take you on a test ride so you can see the motor under load. If you are able, do a compression check. Motor problems get frustrating and expensive fast. I learned the hard way on my boat, so hopefully I can keep someone from making my mistake.