I believe tofastforu had one he was offering up for sale last week

When I put the head gaskets on, I made sure all the water jackets lined up and also the same for the new intake gaskets.

I just read this part and it got me thinking.  It is possible to install the head gaskets backwards and still have them line up with the water jackets on a Ford.  However the engine would overhead due to the water not circulating properly.  Ford have a front and a back to their gaskets.

Now heres how you tell if the head gaskets are installed correctly (without tearing the engine down).

If the head gaskets are installed properly you will be able to see the square corner of the head gasket poking out from between the head and block like this on both front corners.



Both back corners will look like this because the rear corner of the head gasket is rounded. (note that no head gasket is visible)

Wow, look at that Billy / ironman is all the way up to 34 posts (post whore)

 John, just a thought about the fins.  Would it be posible to weld the fins to a small piese of flat plate (to forn an L) than mount them to the top of the ride plate ? That way you could make a few sets and try different shapes and sizes without much work.

 BTW, sorry about the drool marks on your pump brace  .  It just looks cool !! 

Now theres an idea, but insted of welding it get some Architectural angle so you can make them out of one piece, then  just inlet the sides of the plate the thickness of the material. 

Heres some 3 x 3 x 3/16 all the way at the bottom
http://www.metalsdepot.com/products/alum2.phtml?page=aangle&LimAcc=$LimAcc

Found a 25' sleekcraft,BBC,American turbine jet. 4K. My friend is thinking about looking at it.

Thanx

It's very likely that it was originally rigged with a Jacuzzi YJ and now has an American Tubine YJ Energizer kit installed.

Thanks for the link crewchief.

 Yea that looks like a Berk intake,  But it dont look like a Berk pump  . 

 The problem I see would be with a Berk intake you would need to use a loader for a Berk. And with a Jacuzzi pump on there I'm not sure that will work.    Wheres Tom or Josh ?

Interesting, I'm gonna have to go with Jeff and say it looks like a Jac WJ on a Berkeley intake.  I took this picture once to show how similar the intake openings were.

18" is a good starting point but you may end up ± depending on what the boat wants

Hey Josh the switch worked great. Only prob was figuring a way to mount it to the steering. wasnt hard tho. Hooked the green wire form the diverter to the green on the switch and up was up and down down. One question tho why the power wire not to the ignition. thats where I had it hooked to previously and worked fine.   On the hot side of the ignition switch

I don't run them to the switched ignition wire because it is a fairy small wire and the pump can draw a big load in some cases. Run it to the large 12 volt constant lead (which for the sake of argument is on the back of the ignition switch) .

Looks like a Spectra 20 clone, one of the best riding most splashed cruisers of its day, very bitchen boats.

I don't think the Place Diverter has one of those and the old Jet-o-Vator I took off had holes but no clip. 

Place Diverter doesn't need one due to the design upgrades, and the jetovator setup you had utilized a stock nozzle so it should have had one, but they do get lost over the years.

Or at least its A good reason to buy your own smokes and not be a bum. 

Actually paying for consumable items now thats a concept

I guess you can add F'n up you rubrail to the list of reasons "why not to smoke"

I believe this is the type that Josh is talking about
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=300218226760&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=020

Kinda, but not entirley.  I was originaly refering to this piece (below) but after looking at and thinking harder about it I believe the gasket may just have to due with factory oil coolers.

Put it on dry no gasket no sealers.   I belive that gasket may have something to do with the early canister filter.