New member for club  Ray   

Yeah, huh. He says he's gonna have it pulled up for the engine. Only in about 80 feet of water. Might make for some interesting pictures....

Ray

Might be easier to pull the tips, replace the hose, then reinstall the tips.

Ray

my neck hurts...

I just flipped my laptop on it's side......

Looks good! Good luck with the break in! 

Ray

My oil temp is usually 100* more then my water temp.

Which would put you at about 240* on the oil temp, right? Which is roughly 30* higher than a Sprint Cup engine running (Very Expensive) oil coolers to hit that temp. Well NOT outside the operating range of standard 5w30 motor oils. You'd have to get to over 300*, with your HP level factored in,  before an oil cooler, or very different oil, would be needed.

Again, not trying to burst anyones bubble here, but let the oil do what it needs to do and how it does what it does!

FWIW, Trailerho, Marc's engine is "Probably", I think is the closest quote I've been able to dig outta him, is "probably in or close to the 4 figure range".......

Ray

Personally, and someone who knows more like Lakesonly or Enginedoctor will chime in as well, I would try running an oil temp guage first to see if there would be any benefit at all. I'm not sure there is.

One thing these jet boats all do well is run cool, and with large capacity pans, etc, even run pretty hard, the oil temps probably never get to the point of breaking down the oil to it's -W (warm) viscosity in many cases. In which case, what's the point? The oil never gets warm enough protect the engine as it should. Hence looser tolerances on Jet Boat engines.....

Years ago, I remember a Pennzoil tech telling me when they researched engine wear in their Racing program, 75% of all the engine wear occurred in the first ten minutes of operation, and the remaining 25% was during the hot running of the engine. Kindof explains why  high mileage cars "highway driven miles" seem to be in much better condition than a similar car with similar mileage run in town a lot.

No need to fix a "perceived" problem that, as it turns out, wasn't a problem at all, and now the "fix" became a problem....

Ray

some people get lucky, but eventually you will have to pay the thousand dollar price tag for being lazy

Therein lies your answer. I've been daft enough to do just that thinking another hose up the nozzle would protect things. Moo's wear ring is telling me a little different story. Not shot, but the bowl change is now necessitating a lot more.........

With 4 pt mounts, not to hard to disconnect the drive line, 3 point, well, enignes gotta come out to do it.....

Ray

Could be as simple as a u-joint in the driveline too. How long since you even looked at it?

Ray

LOL, Is yer mower chebbie powered too?

 
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Oh, and while yer at it Mark, here's how my dad trims the hedges.......



 

LMAO! Yup! 

Ray

Gawd I miss mine!

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/wvl/bar/1877722332.html

Ray

HA! Got it! B-rad's changed the code a bit since the last time I did it!

Ray

well got off work and hooked the boat up and went down to the water and stayed till the sun went down it was calm  and glassey fun 

May your dick fall off, your balls be trampled by a thousand camels while being gang raped by rabid gorillas, if you post again like that with no pics Harry! 

Ray
 

Stolen from Yuma? Cali or AZ reg #s? not gonna ask for them, just which? VERY easy to xfer a boat here vs Cali. My instinct tells me it headed for Tucson. 

Ray