Re: Ate my prop, suggestions for replacement?
Holy thread revival, Batman!
Greetings folks. Now that its getting warmer, or should I say freaking hot, I am starting to dedicate more free time to this money pit. So I'm back at it again. Here's the latest, hopefully I can get some more positive feedback through this:
I paid my friend $20 to just keep the borrowed 19p prop I mentioned a few posts up. Kinda chunked up aluminum job, but its still in better shape than the 17p that I blew apart.
I've replaced some soft floor panels, and verified the foam is not waterlogged. The boat is simply damn heavy. I plan on tossing it up on the truck scale probably later on this weekend just for curiosity sake.
The more I play with it, I am beginning to lean towards the Johnson 90 to be too little motor for the boat. The ratings tag shows a limit of 140hp.
The motor has been gone through - spring cleaning - by a DIFFERENT shop than who rigged up the motor last year. Everything is in good order. 125psi +/- 2 all around, great spark, carbs cleaned, loose throttle linkage adjusted. I have been told there is no more power that can been squeezed from this engine, without switching carbs from a higher rated brother of the v4 crossflow series.
The motor height has been verified as acceptable. Measured as 3/8" above the keel.
Basically, everything I've been asked, is all good - short of a hook in the hull.
Unless there's some new insight, I guess I'm back to the prop. Current WOT on the 13x19 is 4200. Lugging it, I know. A majority of my outings so far have been idle speed, or just off idle putzing up the slow parts of the river.
Holy thread revival, Batman!
Greetings folks. Now that its getting warmer, or should I say freaking hot, I am starting to dedicate more free time to this money pit. So I'm back at it again. Here's the latest, hopefully I can get some more positive feedback through this:
I paid my friend $20 to just keep the borrowed 19p prop I mentioned a few posts up. Kinda chunked up aluminum job, but its still in better shape than the 17p that I blew apart.
I've replaced some soft floor panels, and verified the foam is not waterlogged. The boat is simply damn heavy. I plan on tossing it up on the truck scale probably later on this weekend just for curiosity sake.
The more I play with it, I am beginning to lean towards the Johnson 90 to be too little motor for the boat. The ratings tag shows a limit of 140hp.
The motor has been gone through - spring cleaning - by a DIFFERENT shop than who rigged up the motor last year. Everything is in good order. 125psi +/- 2 all around, great spark, carbs cleaned, loose throttle linkage adjusted. I have been told there is no more power that can been squeezed from this engine, without switching carbs from a higher rated brother of the v4 crossflow series.
The motor height has been verified as acceptable. Measured as 3/8" above the keel.
Basically, everything I've been asked, is all good - short of a hook in the hull.
Unless there's some new insight, I guess I'm back to the prop. Current WOT on the 13x19 is 4200. Lugging it, I know. A majority of my outings so far have been idle speed, or just off idle putzing up the slow parts of the river.
