No huge updates this time around but still some significant happenings.
First the paint. The bottom paint and white sides and bow are all finished. I put the second coat on today and I have the gummy perma-white spots on my legs to prove it.
Second, I broke the motor. I have no idea what happened but the motors electrical system is fried. At first the tilt worked but when I went to turn it over the battery would spark and the whole thing would go dead. If I left it off the battery over night it would heal itself and I could tilt it again. I did some digging in the wiring harness and figured that since I had removed the long broken oil meter the loose cables must be causing a short. So I disconnected that cable from the engine system, and as if by magic it worked again. I could tilt and it would turn over, all was right with the world. Then yesterday I got a bug up my butt to connect the new fuel tanks and fire her up. And lo and behold it sparked and died again. This time it isn't healing itself so I get the pleasure of taking it in and paying waaaaaaaay too much money for someone to figure out and fix what my dumb ass broke.
And don't worry loyal reader(s) the irony that I am a theatre electrician and I have broken the electrical system is not lost on me.
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