SoCal Jet Boats
Discussion => The No Wake Zone => Topic started by: The Chaz on June 18, 2007, 08:02:51 PM
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My best friend for many years who had moved out of town and I hadn't seen for at least 2 years came in Saturday morning. So I missed the V-drive show :( but we went to El Capitan and had a great time until... near the end of the day I felt a huge loss of acceleration. I let off the gas and was suddenly ankle deep or more in water. I see water spraying in from the water heater line and freaked. Floored it to try to get to shore before I sank, and I was close when all the water rushed to the rear.Very hot water was covering us as it shot out the front of the engine. Well I made it to shore way to fast with all the water weight and ended up completely beached. At least 2 feet from my transom to the water line. As luck would have it beached fairly close was a couple large boats full of people. They tried to pull it off with the boats but the rope just broke. So with the help of about 15 men we inched it back into the water. The next day I said to myself, D#mn I'm and idiot, I could have just shut off the engine and let the blige pumps do their job and everything would have been fine. Well chalk it up to another lesson learned by a new jetter O0
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automotive heater hose on a boat :-\ i'm glad your ok and your boat is not under water like you said lesson learned. thats why i went with the push lock its good to 250 psi only cost about 150 bucks and peace of mind is priceless
(https://www.socaljetboats.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10041/normal_plumbing_006)
cheap isnt good
good isnt cheap
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Is it easy to install? I could afford a little peace of mind after that incident! Best place to purchase?
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Hopefully easier to install than making your own stainless braided line, since most of mine seem to be leaking...
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got my stuff from here
http://www.sweetperformance.com/index.htm (http://www.sweetperformance.com/index.htm)
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Justin, here... the guy that helped you out. That was funny sh!t to see that bow 20' up shore! Glad you got out without anyone getting hurt.
I guess that conversation we have about getting a relief valve may happen a bit sooner than later. Either way, we all made it out safe and had a good time. I was great meeting you.
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wheneve chaz goes boating someone needs to take a camera
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u could more than likely get that push lock hose from any industrail hose house like ur local hose-man or hydroalic shop its standard hose
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I saw something similar at irvine lake on sunday...
(https://www.socaljetboats.com/cpg/albums/6-17-07/IMG_1959.jpg)
he made several passes doing well over 100......then was coasting to a stop and lost steering....90 degree instant turn threw him up on the beach.
This guy was fully aware how lucky he was that it happened when it did.
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wheneve chaz goes boating someone needs to take a camera
We need a Chaztise cam so whomever goes with Chaz can Chaztise us with video!! ;D
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After we pulled him off the beach... one of my buddy was thinking of throwing it back up there just to get the pic. Man, that was cold!
His boat was similar, just a weeeee bit furthur :-X
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Yeah at least 2 ft of sand behind the transom. I spent the last 2 days pulling the engine to get to the oil pan gasket that made all that rainbow color in the water when I drained the boat into the lake... ::) I will be back out ther Sunday with my neighbor and a few of his friends. He just brought his Sanger flattie V-Drive down from No Cal and got it close to tuned in on the trailer. I guess it is a 110+ ride I can't wait to take
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I forgot to mention that I found this inside the oil pan :( The shear pin that broke off on Memorial day must have found it's way into the skirt of my #7 piston. The pieces match perfectly... I am so tired of all the problems this boat has given me that I am going to keep running it with the 1/4" chunk missing, it has been fine for at least 5 hrs since the damage was done... I pray it makes it until winter or I may bow out of this crazy sport that just wont stop throwing me curves. :-\
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Come on now Chaz ya' can't give up that easy! You have managed ta' have crazier shit happened to you in a couple of weeks most of us in a life time!! The Beauty of this lovely sport is all the stories and memories that we create every weekend and the future stories we can tell our kids (If I ever have any)...Yours are just gonna be a little better then the rest of ours ;D Hang in there Chaz...Your luck will change for the better! ;) (hopefully soon ;D)
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Ya theres no giving up in jet boats. Heres my horor story so i finish up my boat ground up resto right before a big weekend all ready to go all i have to do is break in the cam. So i fire it up runs for a lil while then all hell breaks loose noises i have never heard. after taking the engine apart i found out that the cam this reputable engine builder sold to me was was a adjustable valve train which mine was not. flatens the cam and the lifters in the lifter bores. Metal every where flush out the motor as much as i can. Put the new cam in that thursday fire it up break it in runs fine. Leave friday mornin get to havasu put is on the hose once more friday evening make sure its good to go the next mornin. Get to the launch ramp go to fire it up its spinin over has spark has fuel and cant figure it out. Get it off the ramp come to find out theres water in the tanks over a gallon in each tank. No idea where it came from run just fine the night before. Drain the tanks put new fuel in it take it back to the ramp fires up back it off the trailer. I turn it around and go to idle out the steering is backwards the only thing i didnt replace ont he boat was the steering. Ever try to steer a boat with the steering reversed not easy at all. Put it back on the trailer and back to the house flip the lil screw gear around. Come to find out the guy had in worked on before i got it. Anyways get it back on the water sunday now cause saturday was shot. Got it from the marina to about half way to the sandbar it starts to knock. Aww shit come to find out there was still a lil bit of metal in the pan from the bad cam. So once i got it back to cali had the engine rebuilt for the third time. Oh ya and on the way home monday the fuel expanded and went all over my new paint job lifted it and turned most of it brown. But it is almost ready to go again new paint new engine. And then when i went to put the engine back in it three weeks ago found out that the transom and one stringer had dry rot. So i have fixed that. Anyways moral of this NEVER GIVE UP cause that first beer on that boat will be so worth it. Sorry its so long.
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Yeah, I was just venting. I never give up on anything. I just hope it holds together until winter. ;)
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Ya theres no giving up in jet boats. Heres my horor story so i finish up my boat ground up resto right before a big weekend all ready to go all i have to do is break in the cam. So i fire it up runs for a lil while then all hell breaks loose noises i have never heard. after taking the engine apart i found out that the cam this reputable engine builder sold to me was was a adjustable valve train which mine was not. flatens the cam and the lifters in the lifter bores. Metal every where flush out the motor as much as i can. Put the new cam in that thursday fire it up break it in runs fine. Leave friday mornin get to havasu put is on the hose once more friday evening make sure its good to go the next mornin. Get to the launch ramp go to fire it up its spinin over has spark has fuel and cant figure it out. Get it off the ramp come to find out theres water in the tanks over a gallon in each tank. No idea where it came from run just fine the night before. Drain the tanks put new fuel in it take it back to the ramp fires up back it off the trailer. I turn it around and go to idle out the steering is backwards the only thing i didnt replace ont he boat was the steering. Ever try to steer a boat with the steering reversed not easy at all. Put it back on the trailer and back to the house flip the lil screw gear around. Come to find out the guy had in worked on before i got it. Anyways get it back on the water sunday now cause saturday was shot. Got it from the marina to about half way to the sandbar it starts to knock. Aww shit come to find out there was still a lil bit of metal in the pan from the bad cam. So once i got it back to cali had the engine rebuilt for the third time. Oh ya and on the way home monday the fuel expanded and went all over my new paint job lifted it and turned most of it brown. But it is almost ready to go again new paint new engine. And then when i went to put the engine back in it three weeks ago found out that the transom and one stringer had dry rot. So i have fixed that. Anyways moral of this NEVER GIVE UP cause that first beer on that boat will be so worth it. Sorry its so long.
Thanks for sharing!
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I was venting as well it just feels good.