Looks good.

Nice days like that are hard to come by on Mead.

NICE GOING BRAD!!!...the work came out great as always....looks good and im itching to go out again soon and take my dumb dog too to see how he does...

Congrats on the new boat. Its sweet. Glad it worked out.   TC

how come everyone is at mead all the time and no one hooks up? WTF?

Wudda ya doing tomorrow? Workin, i know. I gotta go thru brads carb, then we can all go out ...saturday? Shit, He's goin to Parker

This was my last trip to mead 
Where the fuk do you guys go 



-beerjet-

That looks like the Lake Mead I know! HaHa.

It's a very nice lake don't get me wrong and there are days where the water is perfect. It just seems there are more rough days than calm.

I've been caught on mead and mojave when the wind came up but like i've said before on here, the only time the ole lady ever said turn around was at Parker. Look at all the Mead threads, flat as a pancake and not another boat in sight.

ok, slam session is over...time to work out the bugs...

this weeks project is going to get the gremlins out of the carb....it just wont idle worth a damn....could be a fuel pressure issue...float bowls too high/low...dont know...but will soon find out!

for some reason (i've been told many possibilities as to why) this motor was rigged with both an electric and mechanical fuel pump....the electric fuel pump stopped working shortly after i got the boat.....so today i traced out the wires and found out its hooked up to a switch that was turned off under the dash. i saw this switch before and assumed it was just a anti theft kill switch  ....nope, toggle switch for the electric pump. 

so with the two fuel pumps in unison...maybe its getting too much pressure....maybe the electric pump wasnt allowing the mechanical to draw enough flow when the electical was shut off......im not sure.......that being said there is no fuel pressure gauge or regulator....so first things first....redo the fuel lines to allow for both a gauge and regulator.

the motor is set up with hard lines...pretty, but no where to put in a regulator or gauge.....so with some pieces i have left around, and an order put into summit for the odds and ends i need to make it happen, i should have this done by the end of the week and be testing on mead with nordie this weekend.

this is what i had...



hard fuel line removed...



and the light mockup of what im trying to accomplish...

Your idle screw on the passenger side was totaly unresponsive. I'd keep douching the air bleeds and maybe pull the metering block and clean real good with carb cleaner. Then of course set the floats.

Brad, just my opinion , but if your doing what i think you are. You are gauranteed a leak, reg at the end of your fuel log will eventually work something loose or break. maybe i see it wrong..

i got a bracket that im going to use. i see what you mean about it being loose and movin around causing a leak. ill keep that in mind.

If it wont idle, the air bleeds are probably the culprit.
Really wish I could help you otherwise. 

-beerjet-

it idles fine after it warms up...it also surges and idles irregularly when warm.

the idle isnt all of my problem either....when at WOT....it slowly drops rpm's in steps....and if you take your foot out of it, it stalls hard....and takes a bit of cranking over to fire it up again and it blows a ton of black smoke out (flooded).

so again, thats why im starting with getting a baseline for fuel pressure under wraps before i start banging my head on adjusting the carb.

SELL IT! 


J/K

ya, who in their right mind would sell a boat right after they bought it 

Hey Brad, sounds to me like the throttle shaft bushings are kapoot...wiggle the throttle shaft up and down, should barely move...

You can get some white spray grease and spray the shaft area to see if it temporarily makes things stabilize...

With worn throttle shafts, they are a biatch to get adjusted...

GT

hmm....ill check it out tomorrow morning after work. thanks for the suggestion.