Re: 14 ft. Tri-hull Boat Total Rebuild
WOW!!! Im back again, believe it or not! lol! Had to go back to the 10th page to find my thread! not gud!!
Ok so since my last post....I got my outboard back from the shop. The guy told me the fuel pump was BAD. Like actually partially disinegrating. So he changed that. And since it was going to pieces, it had thrown junk in the carb again so he cleaned that again. Also had fouled the spark plugs so he changed them again too! He also said someone had something wired up wrong on the solenoid and fried it. He said I can get by without changing the solenoid if I prime it manually. It would have cost $175 so I decided to take a pass on that for now. Anyways, I got it back and fired it up in a tub. Ran like a charm! MUCH smoother and sounds great!
So yesterday took it out again! Got a small lake bout 1 3/4 hr from my place. Right before we left, I had been running it and it kept wanting to suck the bulb flat and run out of fuel. Talked to a guy at Bass Pro and he sed i needed a new fuel line/primer bulb. On the way to the lake I stopped and got that. We replaced that before putting it in the water. I still wasn't sure if it was gonna work.
Anyway, put it in the water and fired it up. It fires right away, dont crank at all! Gotta love it! So we took it out. The thing was better, but still was by know means running at maximum power. My bro-in-law was along, and he popped the cover off and was messing around with it while we were running it. Now I am not very knowledgeable in the line of knowing the insides of outboards, so bear with my crude terms and descriptions!
There is a little lever thing on the front of the motor that adjusts the power. He pushed that thing down further and it took off! Im like, "hey what did you do!?" There is a adjustment screw on the side thats connected to that front lever. So we moved that and it worked awesome! To say i was impressed would be an understatement!!! It planed out nice and felt like it was flying compared to our previous speed. I think before we adjusted it, we were prolly doing about 10 mph.
With the new adjustment it did 21-22 mph with 3 adults (approx 350 lb.). I ran it myself and got 24.6 mph. The water was pretty rough from lots of boats (and minimal lake area). Im thinking if I took it out on smooth water myself I could get at least 25, maybe 26. I tried 4 ppl and it wont get up on a plane and plowed along @ 10 mph. So I think for best performance, 3 ppl is max.
So that's where Im at now. Im really tickled with the whole thing! I took some vids of it running. I'll try to post them here sometime soon, as I know you guyz are jst dying for vids!! lol
