SoCal Jet Boats
Discussion => Boat Showcase => Topic started by: N2GLOCK on December 26, 2010, 09:32:05 PM
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After letting it sit for a while, I finally got around to working on my Rogers this weekend. I was able to work on her for 2 days straight. I installed a new fuel pump and fuel supply line up to the carburetor. I relocated the water seperator assembly and ran a new braided line from there to the pump. I installed a new in-line fuel filter that can be serviced. I Finally got around to installing a new Optima blue battery and I repaired the Dana Marine battery box. Started to clay, buff and wax the gel. Changed the engine oil and attempted to perform a tune-up when I ran into a major problem once I removed the distributor cap. It appears that the prior owner didn't do such a great job of covering the boat in the rain. The distributor has so much rust in it, that I truly am amazed that the boat runs as good as it does. This week, if I have a chance, I'll remove and teardown the distributor and try to clean it up. I was toying with the idea of running all braided water lines. Instead, I ordered all new blue silicone heater hose from Summit Racing. If that stuff is good enough for police cars, then it's good enough for my Boat.
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looks good bud :thumbup:
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:thumbup: :thumbup:
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The gel looks great. How was it before you started?
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Wasn't too bad for its age. It had quite a bit of oxidation on it. Some spots felt like a very fine sandpaper. The clay took care of that rather quickly. I was contemplating color sanding it, but decided against it after I saw the results.
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Got alot done this weekend. Pulled the distributor and overhauled it. I replaced the magnetic pick-up, rotor and cap. I also replaced the advance springs and I installed a different advance stop bushing. I also installed a new set of spark plugs. After that, I decided to finally pull the jet and take it in for repairs. I'd been putting this off because I was scared of pulling the jet itself and I was also scared of what the rebuilder might find once he got the jet. It turns out that the jet was easy to remove but it's basically garbage :mad: It will need a new impeller, shaft and bowl. The rebuilder recommended I upgrade to a split bowl and have a droop snoot installed. Looks like that's the route that I'm gonna take. It looks like he can hook me up with some good used parts in order to keep the cost down which will be nice. We'll see what he says once he calls me either tomorrow or Tuesday. I cleaned up the driveshaft in the solvent tank and the universal joints appear to be in excellent shape which is pretty good news.
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while your at it...it looks like them cables can use some attention as well..like replacement!
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Yes sir...the shift cable is the original & I'll be purchasing a new one this week. However, the steering cable is 5 months old so that stays. The diverter lines are good but there gonna end up being to short for the droop snoot. I'm going to have to replace those as well.
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As long as you've gone this far.
You might as well pull the intake, add a ride plate and shoe. :)
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Since it is already apart , ask the rebuilder to check the loader bearing.
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Since it is already apart , ask the rebuilder to check the loader bearing.
Do you give that same kinda quality advice at work, or are we just the lucky ones? :o
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As long as you've gone this far.
You might as well pull the intake, add a ride plate and shoe. :)
That would be nice! However, I promised the wife that I'd buy her a new dining room set. Needless to say, the ride plate and shoe are gonna have to wait until next year :(
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As good as the rest of the float looks, I think the jacked up dizzy had more to do with the location than anything! >:D
Good looking work! I'm with Ron though, I'd do the intake mods now. Have the pump shop hide it in the bill from her........ >:D
Ray
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That pic (blue white stripe on the bow) looks just like my old boat that was a 78 Rogers with a 454, jet. It had a red double stripe (small white stripe in between) above the water line and just below the deck. Is it the same boat? I sold it along time ago when it was stored near the river in Needles Calif.
riverfred@verizon.net
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That pic (blue white stripe on the bow) looks just like my old boat that was a 78 Rogers with a 454, jet. It had a red double stripe (small white stripe in between) above the water line and just below the deck. Is it the same boat? I sold it along time ago when it was stored near the river in Needles Calif.
riverfred@verizon.net
Just e-mailed some pics of the boat. I've been wanting to find a prior owner as I know nothing about the history of it. Hope it's you!!!
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N2GLOCK YUP THAT IS MY BOAT (SAME AZ 494U NUMBER) I BOUGHT IT NEW FROM ROGERS IN 1978 for $7,500 with trailer out the door. I WILL EMAIL YOU A COUPLE OF PICS WHEN I OWNED IT.
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N2GLOCK YUP THAT IS MY BOAT (SAME AZ 494U NUMBER) I BOUGHT IT NEW FROM ROGERS IN 1978 for $7,500 with trailer out the door. I WILL EMAIL YOU A COUPLE OF PICS WHEN I OWNED IT.
Thanks so much for sending me the pics of the boat back when it was new. I really enjoyed speaking to you earlier. I hope to have it ready by April for its first test run. You're more than welcome to come along when I take it out. Now that I have spoken to you I feel even more motivated to get her done. Hope to meet you soon!
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LEt's see those pics!!!!!!
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LEt's see those pics!!!!!!
I tried but they won't load. Site says that the file is too large.
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Been steadily workin on the Rogers for the past 3 weeks. My "To Do List" is getting smaller by the day. Only have a few more things to get done by April. Looks like the trailer paint job and brake install will have to wait until next winter.
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Here is a larger picture....hopefully
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sure are alot of checks :thumbup:
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Looks good. Theres a AN fitting and hose shop not to far from you. They have all kinds of crap. I'll look up the name when I get home. Let me know when your going to go out so I can tag along with my buckt O bolts.
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Looks good. Theres a AN fitting and hose shop not to far from you. They have all kinds of crap. I'll look up the name when I get home. Let me know when your going to go out so I can tag along with my buckt O bolts.
Good to hear from you again! I've been goin to a shop on Burbank Blvd. and the name is VF sales. Is that the place? Got alot done on the boat in the past two weeks, I'll post up pics later today. Planning on taking her out next month to Castaic to find out if she floats. You're more than welcome to tag along with your Hondo.
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I've been busy workin on the boat for the past few weekends. I finally got around to polishing out the intake and valve covers. The prior owner kinda let that stuff go and I was able to bring some shine back. The accelerator cable appeared to be the original and it was damaged so I decided to replace it. While I was at it, I replaced the foot pedal hardware with all stainless. I replaced the carpeting on both fuel tanks. Painted the jet and transom cover. Cleaned up and painted the driveline and got new gold iridite bolts for it. Even after I replaced the starter, I continued have starting issues. I went thru all of the elctrical and wound up replacing many wires. I installed a backup bilge pump and installed a new switch in a hole that was already drilled out next to the switch for the primary bilge pump. I went ahead and got some blue anodized bezels for the 2 bilge pump switches and for the ignition lock cylinder. The bilge pump switches now also have blue anodized knobs that say "pump" on them. This week the jet goes in. Boat should be ready to see water in a couple of weeks as my "to do" list is getting smaller.
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Couple more pics
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That impeller looks like a half A cut half C cut. It wasnt helping you to much there. O0
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That impeller looks like a half A cut half C cut. It wasnt helping you to much there. O0
LOL! I'll say! You didn't get that from Rivertard and Hallett Dave did ya? I know those guys were playing around with some sort of workbench mounted Berkeley aluminum Beer can shredder one time......... :screwy:
Ray
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When I bought the boat I knew that the jet was bad, I just didn't know how bad. The only thing that could be salvaged was the housing. Everything selse needed to be replaced. It was alot of money, but my Chris Starkweather (my rebuilder) really went out of his way to set me up.
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Yesterday I put the Rogers decal on the back window of my tow rig. Wish I would've gone with white ibstead of chrome.
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This thing is almost ready to see water. Good thing, because I'm already getting a bit burnt out. The jet is finally 100% Found the rudder in my garage so I decided to install it. The plan was to not install a rudder, but since I found it, it's on. Finally finished up rewiring and repairing the PD switch on the steering wheel. I had the center cap and the piece directly behind the steering wheel hard coat anodized blue. Directly behind than blue piece and just in front of that plastic piece is a metal piece that I tought was aluminum. I polished it for an hour and sent to it to get anodized with no luck. I was told that it was most probably die cast and it could not be anodized. What I did was paint that piece and the plastic piece appliance white which is what I used on the jet. I aslo fully degreased the bilge and installed a second bilge pump. Now I have an automatic @ 750 gph and a manual backup @ 500 gph. All I have left to do is to bolt the seats back in, relocate the shifter and plumb the fuel tanks.
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Closer look at the jet. I had the steering clevis and nut on the transom cover hard anodized in black.
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Slow at work today, so I got a chance to work on the boat for a little. Cleaned up the power distribution block and installed all stainless screws. Cleaned up a little more of the wiring too.
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Another slow day at work today. Pulled the seats from my garage and I cut out access for the storage. I had some left over carpet so I decided to use it in the storage are so whatever objects I have in there won't slide around. Raised the bimini top for the first time. At last, something on the boat that doesn't have to be restored, rebuilt or replaced!!!
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Started changing the h2o hoses. Bought a bunch of this blue Goodyear heater hose that's installed on police cars. Looks pretty cool and should last forever. Wanted to do stinless, but funds won't allow for that.
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I think that the blue hoses look great.
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the blue hose does look great :thumbup: i have it on both my boats.
one item of concern, if you can please get rid of the hose clamps and use a/n fittings on your water lines like you did on the fuel. your boat will fill up really fast if one of those hose clamps fail and you dont see it.
just my .02
ralph
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the blue hose does look great :thumbup: i have it on both my boats.
one item of concern, if you can please get rid of the hose clamps and use a/n fittings on your water lines like you did on the fuel. your boat will fill up really fast if one of those hose clamps fail and you dont see it.
just my .02
ralph
Thanks for the advice, but I think I beat you to it ;D. I installed all new Comp Cams hose clamps. http://www.summitracing.com/parts/CCA-G3912/ (http://www.summitracing.com/parts/CCA-G3912/) They are of much better quality than the clamps offered by Ideal or Gates. We've used these before on several performance applications with zero failures. Anyways, I have 2 bilge pumps now 8)
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Phase 2 began a few weeks ago. Got a late start because we had a baby in November. Started off by doing a leak down and compression test on the engine. It passed with flying colors so an engine rebuild is no longer in the plans. As far as the motor goes, I'm still gonna go ahead and swap out the 5 1/2 quart oil pan for a 10 quart pan. While I'm down there I'll probably replace the oil pump. I'm also thinking about maybe doing roller rockers and new valve springs. The exhaust logs were cracked at the flanges and way too restrictive so I got a set of Bassett OT headers and they are still at the chromers. When I removed the thru transom tips I discovered that the left tip was installed incorrectly and the wood on the inner part of the transom is in pretty bad shape from the tip leaking water. So instead of installing block off plates, I'm taking the boat down to Havasu on 02/19 to have the transom exhaust holes filled as well as the swimstep holes filled and the entire tansom gelcoated. The swimsteps were in pretty ruff shape and kinda cheap looking. I still haven't decided if I'm gonna put steps back on the boat or not. The boat came with a stereo which I never used even once. So I removed it, the amp, xm module and all associated wiring. While the boat is in Havasu I'll go ahead and have the radio hole in the dash filled in as well. I need to pull the gauges inorder to have the dash repaired so I went ahead and bought a new set of guages and angled bezels to give the boat a bit of a more updated look. Last time I took the boat out, the MSD box took a shit on me and left me stranded. So I went ahead and removed it along with the coil and all the wiring and I bought an HEI distributor. That's all for now. Here are a few pics.
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I don't know what's happening. I used to be able to post pics on this site w/ no problem and now I can't. I've been using the same camera. Oh well...
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I don't know what's happening. I used to be able to post pics on this site w/ no problem and now I can't. I've been using the same camera. Oh well...
I Use photobucket IMG link from my photobucket account
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sounds like good progress to me, cant wait to see some pics