276
Engine Mechanical / Electrical / Torque Specs for BBF exhaust logs
« on: January 25, 2009, 01:35:08 PM »
Anybody got a recommendation or link to a site for torque values on this? Thanks!!
Show Posts
This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.
277
Miscellaneous / Spam / Re: CraigsList Spam
« on: January 24, 2009, 05:21:26 PM »Older Berkeley on CL for sale $195
Not mine
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/pts/1005952406.html
Photos almost make it look like they are from a boat chop shop - running around with a sawzall and cable cutters.
279
The No Wake Zone / Re: Anyone use Sea foam?????
« on: January 22, 2009, 05:46:13 PM »
I made my stringers, false floor and front bulkhead from a cousin of sea foam.
280
Engine Mechanical / Electrical / Re: Burnt exhaust gaskets
« on: January 20, 2009, 05:46:50 PM »How do you warp a water cooled manifold?
Update to my own post. Logs and Snails are now welded together. Next step was to kiss the flanges on a surfacer before powdercoat. Took mine to the local auto engine machine shop and they called back about 20 minutes later and sure enough the left log was warped 1/16th of an inch or better. Right side was OK but left was not.
Yeah maybe this warp happened during my recent snail welding, but more likely this was long term issue.
Logs are aluminum sand castings and alum alloys are more prone to warp than cast iron. Also alum alloys can warp (stress relieve) over a long time. What happens is when they cool after the pour in the mold, they develop internal stress. When the casting flanges were machined they were probably straight. But 30+ years later on after numerous temp cycles hot and cold, the left casting musta had some "issues" to work out and it did.
I'll post pics after powder coat.
281
Project Boats For Sale / Re: Project Boats on Craigslist
« on: January 19, 2009, 10:18:49 PM »
Free, Rare, Unique, Lotzawork - what a combo. Check out this free Glastron CV23 Hull.
http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/boa/998899390.html
Not my boat.
http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/boa/998899390.html
Not my boat.
282
Central Valley / Re: Clear Lake
« on: January 17, 2009, 03:23:49 PM »KonaCole-
What makes the lake green in late summer is the algae bloom from the shallow water (average depth is 10-13') sun can get to the actual roots and it grows like weeds, but they have been keeping up with it lately. The algae is also what makes the lake "flip" and kills all the fish, the oxygen level from the algae heats the water to quickly and all the carp die in like three days time.
Guess the lake naming committee had a sense of irony
283
WarZone / Re: *NSFW* Seriously, WTF?!
« on: January 16, 2009, 07:56:22 PM »sure it wasnt an udder?
Too scared to go double check
284
WarZone / Re: *NSFW* Seriously, WTF?!
« on: January 16, 2009, 07:44:02 PM »
For sure took my mind off the economy. Pretty normal stuff except fo the one with the johnson. 
285
The No Wake Zone / Re: Big Cajones
« on: January 15, 2009, 08:26:26 PM »Yes! X2. Well played, sir knight.
OK... my post sounded gay.
Even if it was a good line from 40 year old virgin.286
The No Wake Zone / Re: Big Cajones
« on: January 15, 2009, 08:00:56 PM »That was funnier then hell Brad
Yes! X2. Well played, sir knight.
287
The No Wake Zone / Re: Barn stored Miller
« on: January 12, 2009, 09:05:14 PM »
SAA-WHEEEEEEEET!!! GOD I LOVE THE SOUND OF BOAT EXHAUST RUMBLING - AND MY NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE MAKES FOR A NICE ECHO EFFECT.
CONGRATS TOM. Can I have that Kidder in the back of the garage?
CONGRATS TOM. Can I have that Kidder in the back of the garage?
288
Lake Mead / Re: Free Flatbottom
« on: January 07, 2009, 04:22:10 PM »
Hey if you guys ever do actually even reach the site of the shipwreck, would you start a new post? That way I can keep NOT reading this one. 
That way I can keep NOT reading this one.
289
Hulls / Re: Rubber doughnut dealio
« on: January 07, 2009, 04:16:10 PM »
I'm going to "out" myself as a random Hillbilly... I used the tapered rubber washer that is under your bathroom sink - the one that plugs into the bottom of the sink bowl itself. Not going to win any best of show awards but it works and fits real well.
I used the tapered rubber washer that is under your bathroom sink - the one that plugs into the bottom of the sink bowl itself. Not going to win any best of show awards but it works and fits real well.290
Project Boats For Sale / 1977 Glastron Carlson CVX20 - $1700 (Seattle, WA)
« on: December 18, 2008, 05:08:30 PM »
Not my boat, what the hell I know these are interesting hulls. Maybe you guys know somebody that digs these boats.
http://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/boa/958783300.html
http://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/boa/958783300.html
291
Boats For Sale / Re: Craigslist & ebay boats
« on: December 18, 2008, 04:48:14 PM »
http://redding.craigslist.org/boa/939874469.html
Not my boat, posted on the Redding CList but boat is located in Crescent City, CA which is basically all the way to the OR border.
'79 Challenger for $3500 decent pictures.
Not my boat, posted on the Redding CList but boat is located in Crescent City, CA which is basically all the way to the OR border.
'79 Challenger for $3500 decent pictures.
292
Engine Mechanical / Electrical / Re: Camshaft Balancing
« on: December 17, 2008, 03:23:21 PM »Great info. guys...Interesting subject
X2 I like having stuff like this to consider - no matter what the ultimate group-think ends up. Everybody keep posting the fringe stuff!
293
The No Wake Zone / Re: Tahiti Girl
« on: December 16, 2008, 08:17:52 AM »OMG!! You guys are idiots! You should focus on your engine/boat issues rather than if I exist or if I am female.
Pretty sad when a chick comes along and all you horny toads want is a photo.
I may not have the best looking boat on the water, but I sure as hell have a boat that doesn't leave me stranded and being towed by a seadoo. I guess that is because when I build my engines they don't break.
So go pull your muffler bearings out and build a REAL engine, or better yet, go stroke your (short) rod and have a happy ending.
Male, Female or Klingon doesn't matter to me. I want everyone to feel comfortable joining this site so I(we) can benefit from the shared knowledge and experiences. Female boat freaks are very rare and it would be great if they joined us on this site. But if TGirl's experience so far is how it's always going down, then nobody else will ever join.
Guys put your peckers back in the drawer and figure out what it is about your ego that makes you want to hump anything that moves.
294
The No Wake Zone / Re: Rare 50 Year Arctic Blast Could Be Headed for SoCal
« on: December 14, 2008, 10:14:46 AM »
Guess I'm not going out on the river today. 
295
The No Wake Zone / Re: New Auto Bailout Ad
« on: December 12, 2008, 08:53:49 PM »
Get ready for hairy armpits on the gals and boys well all be metrosexuals soon... because this friggin country is turning FRENCH baby!!!
We already sue the chit out everyone. We already have too many laws. We already have more pages in the phone book devoted to lawyers than ANY OTHER CATEGORY. (Now we got quagagoogoo & pretty soon we're going to either eat it for sushi or protect it as an endangered species.)
Now we're going to switch to socialism and support bloated, union backed benefit packages that were nothing but Ponzi schemes to begin with. And we're going to REWARD groups of people who f up and make crappy products.
JUST LIKE FRANCE!!!
It's not a decision about whether GM is going to disappear - don't listen to stoopid hype like that. It's about letting them go into bankruptcy and make the HARD DECISIONS that the suits AND the union bosses have not had the balls to make before. Tough love would result in an overhauled Big3 that can start making products that are cost and quality competitive. Is there anything innovative on your boat that came out of Detroit engineering since 1970? I doubt it - the GOOD performance stuff is all non-Detroit, non-union good old American free market capitalism. Not pussy French chit. What kind of goodies do you think we'll be running down the road? We'll just wait for how good things will get when they are sucking off government tits man I can't wait for the high-quality business decisions that will get made then.
Where the hell is Ricky Bobby fer Christ's sake?
Fait accompli Mo Fo's
We already sue the chit out everyone. We already have too many laws. We already have more pages in the phone book devoted to lawyers than ANY OTHER CATEGORY. (Now we got quagagoogoo & pretty soon we're going to either eat it for sushi or protect it as an endangered species.)
Now we're going to switch to socialism and support bloated, union backed benefit packages that were nothing but Ponzi schemes to begin with. And we're going to REWARD groups of people who f up and make crappy products.
JUST LIKE FRANCE!!!
It's not a decision about whether GM is going to disappear - don't listen to stoopid hype like that. It's about letting them go into bankruptcy and make the HARD DECISIONS that the suits AND the union bosses have not had the balls to make before. Tough love would result in an overhauled Big3 that can start making products that are cost and quality competitive. Is there anything innovative on your boat that came out of Detroit engineering since 1970? I doubt it - the GOOD performance stuff is all non-Detroit, non-union good old American free market capitalism. Not pussy French chit. What kind of goodies do you think we'll be running down the road? We'll just wait for how good things will get when they are sucking off government tits man I can't wait for the high-quality business decisions that will get made then.
Where the hell is Ricky Bobby fer Christ's sake?
Fait accompli Mo Fo's 296
Project Boats For Sale / 79 Curtis Craft Drag Boat V-Drive Light weight hull - $1999
« on: December 11, 2008, 09:35:05 PM »297
Interior / Re: Dash Gauges Layout
« on: December 10, 2008, 01:11:00 PM »
Depth gage anyone?? 
I never had one til this summer my kids got me one for Fathers day. Hooked it up temporary just to play. Took it out and scared the shit out of myself. (Ignorance WAS bliss...) But the river bottom is always changing and water level drops a lot all summer 6" -12" a day sometimes. Now I seem to glance at it all the time and so it's going to get mounted up in the "important section" of my dash.
I never had one til this summer my kids got me one for Fathers day. Hooked it up temporary just to play. Took it out and scared the shit out of myself. (Ignorance WAS bliss...) But the river bottom is always changing and water level drops a lot all summer 6" -12" a day sometimes. Now I seem to glance at it all the time and so it's going to get mounted up in the "important section" of my dash.
298
Gelcoat / Paint / Fireberglass Repair / Re: Vacuum Bagging
« on: December 09, 2008, 08:28:00 PM »
When I replaced my 1.5" wide wood stringers I said "nothing organic below the floor" so I used twin 1" wide surfboard foam laminated together with West sys epoxy to make a 2" wide stringer. I used jigs and clamps to hold them in place and shaved their bottoms to follow the contour of the hull reasonably close (but there was still a gap). Then I tack glassed them in a few places like every 3' and after that cured I ran blue tape the along the inboard side along their length to form a dam. Then I poured west epoxy resin on the outboard side (uphill) and it ran down hill into the tape dam. I kept doing this until it filled the gap between the bottom of my stringer and the inside skin of the hull. That was my "weld" between the stringer and the hull.
Then I used bondo to make a nice smooth fillet along both sides of the stringer/hull corners. Then 2-3 layers of cloth tape and resin. Then 2 layers of glass over the entire sides and top of the stringers & also over the tape area too.
All of this was pure out of my ass with no calculations but worried about the same thing you are. I knew I had to have some flex but not too much and not too little.
I'm only 1 summer into the McGuyvered stringers but so far so good. However I am just a mellow water skiier and showoff, not a drag boat.
Then I used bondo to make a nice smooth fillet along both sides of the stringer/hull corners. Then 2-3 layers of cloth tape and resin. Then 2 layers of glass over the entire sides and top of the stringers & also over the tape area too.
All of this was pure out of my ass with no calculations but worried about the same thing you are. I knew I had to have some flex but not too much and not too little.
I'm only 1 summer into the McGuyvered stringers but so far so good. However I am just a mellow water skiier and showoff, not a drag boat.
299
Projects / Re: Wyoming Eliminator
« on: December 09, 2008, 01:27:20 PM »Basically some (eventually & most) lakes will have this inspection process heres the "dope' I'm not really concerned the only "water" I drink comes fromm Adolph Coors !
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/invasives/quaggamussel/
First I get sprayed by helicopter during the medfly BS in the 80's. Now its getting sprayed by pressure washer when I launch my boat!!
Thanks California - pretty soon the rest of the country will be doin it too!
"Quaggamussel" sounds like a gay '80's techno band that warms up for Wham.
300
Hulls / Re: Intake Side Fins - Cut 'em Off!
« on: December 08, 2008, 07:48:20 AM »
Just for fun here are some pics to contemplate!
First 2 are what I think is happening and why I cut mine off.
Last pic shows a comp skiboat and how it is rigged. Not saying that's what you all want to do but shows how they intentionally are putting the pivot axis right under the rope pylon.
First 2 are what I think is happening and why I cut mine off.
Last pic shows a comp skiboat and how it is rigged. Not saying that's what you all want to do but shows how they intentionally are putting the pivot axis right under the rope pylon.