Feel like another update is in order since its been a long time. Had it up and running well back in October and on a nice day I decided it was time to finally take it out for a test run on the river.... Lasted all of about 5 minutes. I am pretty embarrassed to even admit the following but in short I'm lucky I didn't sink it. I took off from the dock and made a few slow circles just making sure everything was working well before I got too far, after a few minutes the boat started to feel much heavier and more sluggish than I remembered it being before so I stopped to check it out. As the boat slowed it looked like the whole river came forward at my feet up front, luckily I was just a few feet from the dock at this point and was able to tie it up right away. Turns out when I was checking to make sure everything was all sealed up with the pump and all the bolts were tight, I forgot to tighten down the hand hole cover nuts.
Luckily they were finger tight so I didn't blow the whole cover off. I consider myself pretty lucky. Also discovered that one of my fuel tanks was leaking because the previous owner had drilled through the side of the boat and right through the top of the tank in three places. Never knew about it until I filled that tank all the way up. Really upset me and progress slowed down for a few months but I'm getting back to it now.
Was a bit of a pain to tune the two holleys, blew out one power valve on a good backfire but now I got it running really well and it has me all excited again! More pics coming soon! Hope everyone is doing well in the new year!
