Fixing The Johnson Four Stroke Outboard

Yesterday the throttle was frozen open.  This morning in the little skinning shop Bryan took the throttle cable apart.  It was all bent and installed poorly (over crimped the casing).  He stripped the cable in half, rerouted the throttle cable and took  the bend out of it....either by poor design or bad assembly the throttle cable was bent at a 90 degree angle up and over the control arm.  He also found where the water was leaking into the throttle cable allowing it to freeze.
Bryan went to his junk bin and found a aluminum  tube from inside a coffee perch .  (You know the  part that you put in coffee and the water comes up the tube and into the grounds).
He split that tube ... filled it with shoe glue and folded it around the cable.

 Because we are having to carry too much all ready...... grub hoe, axe, chainsaw gas, oil, files, wedges and thermos,  Vikki is carrying the QuikClot in her jacket.

The Beavers are still hard at it.








The Lake here is like a figure eight and our cabin is located at the Narrows.  The Narrows is the first to freeze up and the first to go off in the spring.  We had to break our way thru the 1/2 " inch on the way out but it was just about gone when we come back at 5.