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Took the boat to the lake a few days ago, seemed to run ok, but only got 32kt from twin 115 89 mercs. I took it home and cleaned the accelerator pump nozzles. 2 were stuck open, 1 was stuck closed and one was working normally.Replaced all the brittle oil injection lines. Started doing a link and sync and found the linkage to one upper carb was broken, and the wide open stop was set so the carbs only opened 2/3 on one engine, and almost all the way on the other. I will need to replace the in floor fuel tank soon, I looked inside through the sender hole and see some corrosion on the bottom. I am also getting some 1/4" blobs of opaque clear jelly in the racor filter. Looking forward to all the parts getting here so I can see how she does with the engines running like they should.
That is a great looking boat, set up nicely to do a little fishing. I had that same hull for the past 5 years but just sold it last Spring. I moved into a 22 Revenge; it's a little more family-friendly.
Just checking out your pictures again. What a great looking boat.
No bottom paint & still looks to have it's origonal seating & equipment. It is impossible to find boats with unpainted bottoms up here in the Northeast, especially 38 year old ones. Is it in good condition? Where did you find it?
Got just a few rod holders and fishing gear there; hope you are gonna start using them.
It has 10 rod holders, 2 electric downriggers and storage for 15 rods. doing sea trials in the lake to get all the bugs worked out. it will be an ocean boat primarily. It is a northern california boat. I bought it from a friends estate when he passed away. He had owned it since 1978, it is in decent shape, repowered in 89 with twin 115 merc 4 cyl, hull is sound, but there is quite a bit of spiderweb on the inside floor, there is one small soft spot just in front of the console that I intend on injecting epoxy into.
Took the boat out for a little while today, backed the trailer into the water and adjusted the timing and idle mix on both motors with the boat strapped to the trailer. One engine is running real good, the other doesn't want to idle very well and has a major flatspot off idle, usually stalling at part throttle. I put 16 oz 2 stroke oil, a bottle of seafoam and 6 gallons of fresh fuel into the empty 40 gal tank. The engines ran better and better for the 10 minutes I had it running around the lake before my big racor filter plugged and both engines shut down. I switched the fuel lines to my 29 gallon reserve tank and headed back to the dock. it apperas that the seafoam broke loose a bunch of the clear jelly out of the fuel tank. I am going to backflush all the crap from the filter, run it again and see if it plugs again, hopefully I can get most of the crap out of the 38 year old tank. I am going to replace the tank when funds allow.
