RCU Forums - It Started!!!!

I finally got my boat started, and not just once, over 10times. I ran it for 5mins first, then I ran it again and again. I held the glow plug igniter on for about 25-30seconds instead of 3seconds and it started and restarted. Now the shaft did come lose a little from when we tried to start it with a drill (my friend told me it would work, it didnt work to well) so we got it started and I was happy. Now however today I got the boat out, started it, took a few tries but got it started. I left it sit to make sure things were running fine and i saw something fly in the air, but didnt think anything of it. Then exaust smoke was comming out of no where which I figured it was just lingering around. Well then I saw it, the gasket blew and the entire exaust blew off, well more shook off but was hanging on just a little by a screw. So we tried to close it off again, well it still leaked. So now I have to get someone to fix it because I'm sick of messing with it and I dont have the equipment nor experience to fix it. Pretty much I dont know what I'm going to do yet, I was going to take it to a river on sunday to run it but thats out of the picture, and next week there was a pond I was going to take it to and it might be fixed by then who knows, but I have 2 weeks till I take it back up to the lake again so hopefully my other friend will beable to fix it by then. In a nut shell Im upset but its only the beggining of summer so I have a while to get it running but I want it as soon as possible. If you guys could give some tips or anything that would help it would highly appreciated.

Thanks,

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