simply take your air hose and squirt a 1-2 second blast of air tightly into the pee hole from the outside
Exactly. It blows any creepy crawler nests or other particles out of the telltale hose and fittings. Motors used in salt water suffer more from this issue than lakers.
Once you find the teletail pee hole, I’ve used a stiff wire up it to see if the end is clogged. I’ve found insect nests/cocoons clogging the end up on more than one motor, and sometimes the clog is hard like clay.
Dave
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