I just got back from a 14 1/2 hour drive to pick another jet boat up. '74 Biesemeyer 21' mini-day cruiser. I've never seen one before in person, but let me tell you that there is nothing "mini" about this day cruiser. It's HUGE. There's enough room under the bow for a bed if you wanted to put one there. 455 Olds with a (alleged) bad starter and a (alleged) bad carb. 12JC, split bowl, droop snoot, "high speed" intake grate, split bowl wedge, and a regular nozzle with a HUGE turning fin on it. Also, it has a fixed mount aluminum fin in the center of the bottom of the hull. I've never seen one of those fins but I did have a guy ask me a couple of days ago if I had one of those fins. Anyway, this one appears to have a good floor, transom, and stringers - I'm going to have to dig a little deeper into the wood tomorrow to make sure. It's a pretty interesting hull by itself. Besides the fact that it's so huge, it's got a pretty "rake-ish" entry on the bottom which smooths out to nearly a perfectly flat bottom in the back. Also interesting to me is that the exhaust log's snails have no "snail" to them, they are perfectly straight and very short. All cables seem to be good. There's even some sort of "lock out" to the forward/reverse "shifter" which actually works. All matching old school Stewart Warner gauges. The clear coat is peeling off of the hull. The interior is completely shot. I have two extra interiors right now, it'd be nice if this one had a good engine and pump so I could actually repair one of these old jet boats (besides mine) instead of striping them, dumping the hull, and parting them out on eBay. Time will tell.

I was also informed of some info so I'm going to share it. Here it is...

Hi Rod, Thanx for the reply! You know the more I think I know, the more I find out that I don't know! To my limited knowledge they only made the JC,JG,JEand JF pumps. However there was a JR. Is it possible that the B is actually an R? the rest of the numbers (Mo No and Serial No) refer to the type of package, ie engine, nozzle,transom adaptor, intake, etc.. By the way the R stood for Race! After the J_ the letter stood for the size impeller and then the type of material the impeller was made of. Hope this helps!

That's fu<king funny!!!

Your trippen bro! I asked for that loader grate waaay befor you did.

Your trippen bro! I asked for that loader grate waaay befor you did.

Believe what you want, but I asked him to sell me his extra loader grate the same day he got the Crusader, which would be the first day that he had two of them. How could you ask him for his loader grate before he had two of them? Oh wait, we're talking about Marc here. Whatever, I got one now.

Gotta love those valve cover breathers!   

Check out the straight "snails".   

WOW , a wet sand and some new interior and that would make a nice family boat!

Believe what you want, but I asked him to sell me his extra loader grate the same day he got the Crusader, which would be the first day that he had two of them. How could you ask him for his loader grate before he had two of them? Oh wait, we're talking about Marc here. Whatever, I got one now.

You believe what you want , I have first dibs on anything to do with that boat!! It was part of the deal of me selling it to him in the first place!! If you remember which boat the grate came off of!!

I C talk about 455's....heres a few in my hood

http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/pts/343925345.html

http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/pts/343821735.html

http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/pts/341033037.html

Bought the boat with the story that it had a bad carb and a bad starter. Came with a new starter. I put on my extra carb, changed the totaly shot battery cables, and now the engine spins over nicely without changing the starter. Holley electric fuel pump isn't working, put on a spare manual fuel pump. Still no fuel, must have connected the gas lines backwards.     Now no spark.      BTW, It needs gas and spark to run.

Everyone pray to the jet boat Gods to save this one's soul as I try to get it running.   

... Everyone pray to the jet boat Gods to save this one's soul as I try to get it running.  

I cleaned the points and OUCH! Now I feel all special inside.     Still no fuel getting to the carb.      I can buy a new fuel pump but my spare looks new. I can pull my new electric fuel pump off of my Rogers - no I can't - refuse to do it - not going to happen. hmmm... I poured gas down the carb     and BAM, starts and runs, no knocks, no water in the oil, hmmm...

I dig the play by play posts 

marcsrollin's freeze plugs didn't fit. Then The Chaz showed up and I reiwred his distributor for him. The Chaz took marcsrollin and I to Kragens where I got 2 new freeze plugs. The The Chaz bought me some beer.     So we got back and I installed the freeze plugs, permenantly installed the electric fuel pump, found the old freeze plugs in the bildge     , installed the used key switch that came with it, installed a throttle pedal and cable from one of the "retired" boats I've had, fired it up and

it runs excellant.           I even have a picture to prove that it runs.

Next will be a couple of large towels for the seats and a trip to the lake sometime between Thursday and Sunday.   

sweet......sounds like you guys were productive today. 

Yeah, marcsrollin is a good uhmmm... friend and The Chaz hoepefully got his distributor problem fixed. Personally, I worked my asssss off.