by Henry B. Notrom
Don't turn a deaf ear when your engine tries to tell you something. Lean to understand its complaints and you can save a potful of money.
Like waves slapping the hull or wind whistling past the windshield, the quiet purr of a well-tuned outboard is a sound your ear tends to ignore. It's part of the normal background noise of boating. But let that engine start missing or knocking and suddenly it drowns out everything else. It's like a cry for help. Being able to understand your engine's distress calls can save you time, trouble, money, or all three, depending on just how serious the problem happens to be. Often it's something minor--just a matter of tightening a bolt or resetting an adjustment--but it may be an early warning of a critical malfunction.
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