udoittwo
Seaman
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- Jan 23, 2014
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Hello,
Sorry, but I tent to ramble, so be prepared.
New here but I have a few questions about my brother-in-law's boat. He has an 2005 50HP Suzuki jet drive on his 18' jon boat. It doesn't have power tilt/trim. We had it on a large body of water and for the most part, it worked fine. If it got a little to choppy or he opens it up on smooth water, it would cavitate[I guess that'what it's called?] and not get enough water to drive it well. He wants to toss this real nice low hours motor for something with a prop. I think there's something he can do to improve performance without buying a new motor or spending a lot of money.
1. Would power trim, like it does on a prop boat, help at accelerate and get better preformance at high end on a jet drive?
2. I see relatively inexpensive used power trim units but wrong HP or make. Can any trim unit be adapted to any motor?
3. The drive is only a few inches below the bottom of the boat. Its not a monster motor. Does someone make, or is it easy to make, some way of quickly lowering and raising the motor to get the jet lower into the water and would that help to lower it a few inches?
Oh well, that's enough for now, I'll post a question about my motor some other time.
Thanks for your time and any help and HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!,
Karl.
Sorry, but I tent to ramble, so be prepared.
New here but I have a few questions about my brother-in-law's boat. He has an 2005 50HP Suzuki jet drive on his 18' jon boat. It doesn't have power tilt/trim. We had it on a large body of water and for the most part, it worked fine. If it got a little to choppy or he opens it up on smooth water, it would cavitate[I guess that'what it's called?] and not get enough water to drive it well. He wants to toss this real nice low hours motor for something with a prop. I think there's something he can do to improve performance without buying a new motor or spending a lot of money.
1. Would power trim, like it does on a prop boat, help at accelerate and get better preformance at high end on a jet drive?
2. I see relatively inexpensive used power trim units but wrong HP or make. Can any trim unit be adapted to any motor?
3. The drive is only a few inches below the bottom of the boat. Its not a monster motor. Does someone make, or is it easy to make, some way of quickly lowering and raising the motor to get the jet lower into the water and would that help to lower it a few inches?
Oh well, that's enough for now, I'll post a question about my motor some other time.
Thanks for your time and any help and HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!,
Karl.