The damage is where the chisel is laying in the bilage. It's weird the entire strake is hollow? I used a bore snake with a camera to look inside and sure enough it is. And there's no way the other patch was water tight and I made 4 trips to the lake with no leaks other than the packing seal on the jet. It's like the hull was laid then preformed strikes were laid on later, is that possible?

Thanks for the offer gt but I'm gonna see what I can do with this.

Well the patch is little worse than I
 Thought
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Cleaned up the bilge

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Damn that looks good. Next time you get bored let me know, I got lotsa stuff you can polish

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Got the motor primed and painted silver

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Already ahead of you, according to ups they are "ballast tanks" for a wake boat........ the guys gonna call me back to give me an estimate on shipping but because of size and weight of near 30 pounds its gonna be freight so im assuming somewhere around 40 bucks

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Im in Moreno valley ca 92555 so im about an hour or two from orange county

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So what's the easiest way to do so? Im limited on friends that are local so most likely only gonna be able to get 4 guys myself included.

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I have read and searched on this subject and no one ever agrees. How ever an old neighbor of mine worked for Berkley in the 70-80's and he claims to have broken in many a motors on the trailer with no problems hooked up. He claimed "if the impeller has enough  room to wiggle and wipe out the wear ring it was time for a rebuild anyways." But even he suggested to me that while running on the trailer run a hose hook up that feeds the pump and motor through the water pick up in the boat and to stick another hose into the steering nozzle and crank it.

Myself, I do what he suggests but never run longer than a few mins and try to hose out the pump before I fire it. Only time I have ever fired a jet boat dry is at the gas station after I fill the tanks and its just on and off to make sure it runs.

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From what I understand the Volvo outdrives are pretty stout. But a cracked block no thanks. If its 400 drop in with all the electronic fuel equip id pick it up and get a new block and swap.

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I wear a hat every day. I could use a couple

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well the engine dictates the color. if its an olds , its red or blue.  if its chevy its orange. ford is blue!

Yah but the boats green with black interior. Im leaning to grabber green but still got time to think.

Gonna flip the hull and check out the bottom and practice my color matching skills on the bottom repairs before I try on the bow.

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So im getting ready to pull the motor and clean it up and repaint it. Just can't figure a color. Don't really want to paint it black again but can't decide what color would go with the green on the boat, what do you guys think?

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