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« on: November 11, 2012, 08:03:46 PM »
I may be picking up a 1996 ultra bubble deck on tues, the owner told me it had a weird chatter knock type noise at idle, I went and checked the boat out today, he hooked up water and started it up for me, I only heard the noise once just at idle, sounded as if the impellor shaft was jumping around in say a worn out type bushing or bearing, the pump is a set back berkley, not sure which model but it was a split bowl with a fairly small examine hatch type lid on the outside of the hull, he showed me reciepts of 600+ dollars spent on rebuilding the pump just before last season, only concern I have of the boat, it has a tom papp blown big block in it and runs in the 80mph range, just seeing if its a big issue or a normal type noise? Thanks for any input