Recent content by Brandon185

I don't have pictures right now and the boat is at the storage place but the difference is the bracket is a one sided thing. Basically it doesn't limit the range of motion like the two sided bracket does. Other than that it mounts the same.

It's very possible I have an exhaust shutter stuck in there. it was missing when I got the boat and I got the pieces out I could find but if there's one stuck in there it would have to be in the y pipe or whatever you call that piece in the 4 cylinder. I'll check it out before next season. I...

I'm currently running the 15x17. This motor just isn't liking the 19 pitch prop. It should be able to run it fine but I just came get the rpm up high enough with it. Still looking into causes but I get close to 35mph on gps with the 17 and it pulls tubes and wake boards really well so I've been...

Did you make sure the kill switch is on run. I've done it before

So I had checked the base timing and the intial advance but I hadn't checked the advance at higher rpm's looks like my advance is only going from 12 degrees at idle to 16-18 degrees at 3000 rpm. Does that mean my ignition controller is bad?

Autolite 605. It's what autozone had when I needed them.

Well the cap and rotor look new. It was probably the previous owners last ditch effort to make it run. The plug gaps were all about.015 too large. Don't know if that's enough to make a big difference but it's something. Here's what the plugs looked like.

Checking all that tonight. I don't have new wires but existing ones aren't obviously bad.

I emptied the fuel tank before running it and filled with fresh gas. I'm going to replace the cap and rotor tonight. In neutral it actually feels slow to rev but I may be reading too much into that. Maybe it's not getting a strong spark.

That's what I'd expect. There must be something holding it back.

I bought the boat non running and just finished rebuilding the motor so I don't know what it ran like previously. Hull is clean, speed is gps and I trim up to max speed.

That's the stock prop that came with the boat. I have a 17p prop that I have to manually keep from over revving. I get on plane fine with the 19p prop but it seems to run out of breath I the top end. Wot is supposed to be 4400-4800 but for some reason I can't get there.

I have a newly rebuild 3.0 that doesn't seem to have the top end it should I'm maxing out at 35mph gps at 4200 rpm with a new 14.25x19 black max prop. Freshly rebuilt carb, it idles smooth, has good compression, timing is correct and doesn't stutter. I've ordered a new cap and rotor. Seems like...

Also for people reading this I called smart tabs and they're sending a different end for the gas shocks that'll allow their fitting of curved transoms and allow at least the use of three out of five adjustment positions. I'm looking forward to trying them out.

So what I decided to do was just buy two aluminum props. I ordered the stock 14.5x19 and a 15x17 black max. I'll swap them out depending on what I expect of the trip. Hopefully that'll cover both cruising/tubing and pulling wakeboard/skiers with more assumes on board.