weirdpuckett
Cadet
- Joined
- Feb 22, 2014
- Messages
- 8
My sister "inherited" this boat through an eviction of one of her properties....Knowing me and my boys fish(from the shore) she wants me to check out the boat to see if I would be interested in either buying it or making it ready to buy...I know very little about boats....but I have always wanted one....
So I found this forum and wish to get some idea of where this boat is at and how much money it would take for me to perhaps use it..
The boat was full of leaves/pine needles
The seats are all cracked and wood suffers a bit
It has a console with faded panel barely legible wordings
It has a Suzuki 140 on back with trim hydraulics a big plastic fuel tank( looks like 40 gallons)which has a "patch" where somebody put a hole in the side of it....
The engine looks like it leaks nothing , but I don't know how to check if it even runs ad I have heard that you aren't supposed to run engine unless its submerged in water...
I took spark plugs out - 1 and 2 were clean as if new and 3 and 4 smelled like fuel and weren't fouled...
First things first....I would like to know how to get this thing running/ started and what I should know about the other fluids etc...
Should I drain out/ change before attempting to start?
Is this engine the stock engine for the 1986 winner zz880?. Any help on this would be appreciate it...the more I am around the boat, the more appealing the idea of blasting across a big reservoir becomes.....just say in'.....
So I found this forum and wish to get some idea of where this boat is at and how much money it would take for me to perhaps use it..
The boat was full of leaves/pine needles
The seats are all cracked and wood suffers a bit
It has a console with faded panel barely legible wordings
It has a Suzuki 140 on back with trim hydraulics a big plastic fuel tank( looks like 40 gallons)which has a "patch" where somebody put a hole in the side of it....
The engine looks like it leaks nothing , but I don't know how to check if it even runs ad I have heard that you aren't supposed to run engine unless its submerged in water...
I took spark plugs out - 1 and 2 were clean as if new and 3 and 4 smelled like fuel and weren't fouled...
First things first....I would like to know how to get this thing running/ started and what I should know about the other fluids etc...
Should I drain out/ change before attempting to start?
Is this engine the stock engine for the 1986 winner zz880?. Any help on this would be appreciate it...the more I am around the boat, the more appealing the idea of blasting across a big reservoir becomes.....just say in'.....