First outing today.

Rodman · Post by **Rodman** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 7:04 pm

I took her out and drop her in the water for the first time today. I can honestly say it was bit scary. My first time on a rudder boat. All my boats are out board powered. The ramp I was in was not very big. I idle out past the no wake zone. Then I gave her full power to plane out, she started bogging down, Would not plane out. I think it may be trash in the carburetor or fuel problem. I have to investigate this week, and see why it was doing that. It idles fine not problem there. When I rev it up in the water its fine. Just under load gives the problem. Any thoughts on this problem? It was pain to load it when its dead in the water....

~Rodman~

prowlersfish · Post by **prowlersfish** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 7:19 pm

Rodman I bet its the prop you said you have a 16Lx18 if you have 1 to 1 gear thats way too much prop , your boat came with somthing like a 14X10

Glad you got it in the water .

Rodman · Post by **Rodman** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 7:39 pm

prowlersfish wrote:Rodman I bet its the prop you said you have a 16Lx18 if you have 1 to 1 gear thats way too much prop , your boat came with somthing like a 14X10

Glad you got it in the water .

I will try to find a smaller one and try that. Thanks for the response.

prowlersfish · Post by **prowlersfish** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 7:57 pm

Many be a prop shop will let you try a used one never hurts to ask . What size shaft are you running ? It came with 1 inch , I know the strut been changed just wondering what else . sure would be nice to know want gear ration you have

Rodman · Post by **Rodman** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 8:08 pm

prowlersfish wrote:Many be a prop shop will let you try a used one never hurts to ask . What size shaft are you running ? It came with 1 inch , I know the strut been changed just wondering what else . sure would be nice to know want gear ration you have

Its a 1.1 like you said, and its a 1in shaft. I am concern about this problem. I can tell you when I hit the key to turn the engine over it seems to be dragging. Then she pops off. I am wondering if it could be timing issue? It does backfire also. Not every time when I race the motor up Just every once in a while. More I think about it it could be retard or advance little too much. I will look at that also this week and place a timing light on it.

prowlersfish · Post by **prowlersfish** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 9:17 pm

You could have a timing issue also but there is not way you can turn a 16Lx18 prop with a 1 to 1 gear it would like taking off from a light in fifth gear . make sure thats what you have

Rodman · Post by **Rodman** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 9:37 pm

prowlersfish wrote:You could have a timing issue also but there is not way you can turn a 16Lx18 prop with a 1 to 1 gear it would like taking off from a light in fifth gear . make sure thats what you have

Ok I will do that.

foofer b · Post by **foofer b** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 9:16 am

Rodman, good to hear from you again. Been to empty without you! You almost certainly havetoo much prop. I have a spare 14x12x1 LH I will loan you to try out. I think it will work better than what you have.

Rodman · Post by **Rodman** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:16 am

foofer b wrote:Rodman, good to hear from you again. Been to empty without you! You almost certainly havetoo much prop. I have a spare 14x12x1 LH I will loan you to try out. I think it will work better than what you have.

Thanks Roy, I want to check the timing first. And see if that might be a factor. I plan on doing another test run this weekend.

Rodman · Post by **Rodman** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 12:25 pm

I found the problem,the battery cables were very dirty, that was why it was dragging. Now for the running problem under load. Here is what I found after thinking on it for awhile. When I had it at my shop working on it, it ran fine. Once it got to the lake is when it starting acting up. So I back tracked a little I remember I put fuel in it on the way to the lake. It has bad gas ( dirty fuel, water in the fuel. When I put the new fuel in it, towing it to the lake, mixed up that fuel and new fuel and water and trash that is in the tank mixed around causing the problem. Now to try to figure how get those tanks ( round 35gal ) out with out having to remove the engine.

Rodman

foofer b · Post by **foofer b** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 1:04 pm

Rodman, my boat has a hatch at the rear that is wide as the deck. Doesn't yours?

Rodman · Post by **Rodman** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 1:29 pm

foofer b wrote:Rodman, my boat has a hatch at the rear that is wide as the deck. Doesn't yours?

No I will get some pics to show later on today.

wowzer52 · Post by **wowzer52** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 9:07 pm

Can you access the top of the tank, remove the fuel gauge sending unit and stick a hose or solid line in the hole with a manual or marine type electric fuel pump attached, raise the bow of the boat so the water goes to the pickup point and pump it out into fuel safe containers? Just a thought.

Rodman · Post by **Rodman** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 9:18 pm

wowzer52 wrote:Can you access the top of the tank, remove the fuel gauge sending unit and stick a hose or solid line in the hole with a manual or marine type electric fuel pump attached, raise the bow of the boat so the water goes to the pickup point and pump it out into fuel safe containers? Just a thought.

I was going to try that in the am on both tanks. I want to take at lest one out look inside see what it looks like. They are the original tanks that came with the boat. Lancaster Pa plat on the side of them.

Rodman · Post by **Rodman** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:54 pm

Here are the fuel tanks.