A friend of mine (Jetaholic) who has done a complete resto on a marlin calls me and ask me if I could help him out in rebuilding his pump . (I cant remember exactly what events took place nor in what order) Turns out he was taking his freshly restored boat out for its maiden voyage he noticed a ton of water in his bilge . Motor was also dead and as the boat came to stop his wake also came over and swamped the boat .This thing was going down and in a hurry . A freind of his who finally got his boat fired up after having issues of his own comes around to the rescue . Got the boat on the trailer and as he's pulling it out of the water , the winch starts to unreel and the boat is headed for the water on it's own this time , but he saves it . WHEW !
So anyways here is the boat in question .78 marlin I believe . All new wood inside . New Gel. New 454 . New upholstery . New gages . New wiring .New trailer. And last but not least , it had a fresh pump .
First thing was to yank the victum out of it's final resting place .Here is the before shot .
Now get to gettin !
Once again I will say that in
MY OPINION you dont need to lather ever crack and crevise of your pump with silicone . I wanted to take my own life when I saw all the silicone John put on his pump . It took a 3 ft. crow bar , alot of finesse , even more foul language and about 5 min. to get this transome cover off .
Soooooo it's out and
OH MY FUKIN GOD ! What the hell did John do ?!
Over the hand hole as well !
Off came the Jet-a-way . Which I might add is amazing in it simplicity alone . Major kuddos to Duane over at Hi-tech .
With the aid of the berkely tool set this is what we found !
An inside shot.
Check out the 2 grooves it left in the impellor !
Here is the culprit . I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it is a piece of gauld up aliminum . It was definatly aluminum though .
I had to double drill the new suction housing because the Jet-a-way uses 8 bolts versus the berkely 4.
Once again Tom @ Jet Boat Performance to the rescue . Tom overnighted an impellor with the matching wear ring so John could get it on saturday . We reassembled the suction housing with the new impellor and we could not for the life of get his old bearing out .
NOTE PEOPLE : Do not let the powder coater get powder coat on anything other than the surface that will be showing .
So after pacing back and forth like caged animals and already facing defeat I remembered that I had a bearing in stock , on the shelf , ready for installation .
Team Cold Beer racing to the rescue !
Got the shaft in .
Impellor on . Dont forget the keyway people !
Got the Jet-a-way back on .
Torqued the bowl down and there you have it . A reassembled pump .
I will say that you could turn the shaft by hand before but after , you could turn it with 2 fingers and it felt like butter . Oh so smooth .
Well it went back in with no muss and no fuss .
At this point , I'm panicing because I work on my own shit all the time . This is someone elses boat and I would hate for something to happen to someone elses ride due to my incapability or even worse , somebody gettin hurt . He stuck around till the next day and we hit Elsinore . Drove through a monsoon and we are on the water .
Passed the leak check and we're off !
NOW FUKIN HAMMER IT !!!!!! 
So there you have it folks . Another great day For "Team Cold Beer Racing !"
For those that dont know . Heres "Topless" and her stalker "Jetaholic"
I am not a proffesional ! This is by no means meant to be taken as instructions on how to work on your pump. There are plenty of proffessionals out there who are willing to give great and proffessional advise ! -beerjet-
