OK so this surprised me a little, thought some of you would get a kick out of it...
About two and a half years ago I helped out my bud who has a super clean Saber Jet cruiser that had been sitting in his dads yard for about 9 years or so....I took it to my house and quickly discovered the floor and stringers were rotted and it would not run because of a laundry list of problems..
I had replaced all of the rotted wood, new carpet, fixed some broken seat bases, rebuilt the carb, new hoses filters cables... basically restored the damn thing.....
He wanted to install some stereo crap so he took the boat home the two and a half years ago and I never saw the boat again, that is until Monday of this week...
He calls me out of the blue and asked if I could help him get it running for this weekend.....He had not touched it since I had it in my driveway.....
So I go over there and he is installing a stereo (some peoples priorities are focked all to hell....
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I begin to check out all the controls and fuel and what not. I decide to get a battery and he says, " I have the battery right here"...had not been used since 2006.
it had been a maintenance charger for almost three years.
still had water in it and had 12.9 volts...Hooked it up, squirted some fuel in the carb and hit the key....I was blown away, the engine started virtually immediately and after the original prime ran out, I squirted it again and it started and idled.... Gave it a few revs and it ran awesome....
Had I not seen it myself, I would have called BS.
The only thing that did not work was the trim gauge, but after a few whacks with the palm of my hand, even that came to life....
BTW, the stereo still does not work, I was there tonight...
Also, this was a Berkeley E with a Packajet 460 that we changed the crank timing gear to a Cobra Jet OEM piece and a Pertronix and it will run 4900 RPM all day long with an A impeller....
GT
