Brand new mid hp motor?

tell me about it ridge, i am trying to get mine ready to take to the dealer monday. i went to the dealer yesterday and he was mounting twin 150's on a parker. they had the cowlings off, the only thing i recognized was the spark plug wires.

like rmb, i had progressive on the v the first 5 years i had the new motor on it back in 95. it was around $250 a year for around $10,000. worth of coverage.

looks good, enjoy
 
Hey Ridge... As a favor to you,(so you can have more time to do other things), I'll be happy to take the boat and do the break in for you for a few years or so.. No, no,...... no thanks needed... it's the least I can do for a fellow boater. :beer:
 
Destroyer said:
Hey Ridge... As a favor to you,(so you can have more time to do other things), I'll be happy to take the boat and do the break in for you for a few years or so.. No, no,...... no thanks needed... it's the least I can do for a fellow boater. :beer:
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I'll do him one better. I will gladly let him fill it up, and then come over and do the break in for him. Even test the hull/prop integrity on a few rocks out on the flats for him. Since I'm local I can do this service for him on short notice.
 
While I do appreciate the generosity of the offer Destroyer, Ferman has first dibbs. Shall I take a casting of what the skeg looks like now, as in a BEFORE picture. Seriously, might be the last chance to see it intact. :haha: Time to see what this thing can do. To the lake.
 
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RidgeRunner said:
While I do appreciate the generosity of the offer Destroyer, Ferman has first dibbs. Shall I take a casting of what the skeg looks like now, as in a BEFORE picture. Seriously, might be the last chance to see it intact. :haha: Time to se what this thing can do. To the lake.
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Hey now, my skeg on my jon boat is still intact(by some miracle I don't know how, that oyester bar last weekend was HARD!). I will say my SOLAS aluminum prop is one tough SOB. I hit some stuff with it that would have WRECKED a michigan wheel, and it just got some knicks in the blades(which polished right out with a scotch brite pad on my grinder).
 
Well I just got back from the lake and I am impressed with the torque. Cruised around for break-in which reads nothing over 4500 for the first 2 hours and vary throttle often. Took lunch, which is damn good news, I am getting my appetite back. Just put an hour on it and it is incredible how much additional thrust the larger prop and deeper gears make. Seriously it is on plane in a boatlength and a half and will stay on plane with light load (me) down to about 10.5 mph. Fantastic news because the flat bottom has a tendency to beat your fillings out in the rough. The larger gearcase does seem to give some additional stern lift at speed and it is possible to jack the motor all the way up and the boat will still get on plane and run. No way the old Johnson case and 15P prop were up to that task. The bow rise coming out of the hole is nearly imperceptable so it is hard to really put a stopwatch to it. Half again faster than the 90 Johnson that was no slug to start with. The prop I borrowed off the V-20 is the Thunderbolt Quicksilver 21P. It swings it without a problem but who knows on top end. Couple more hours to go before we find out. This is absolutely the quietest motor I ever owned. In neutral you can hear the water stream as it breaks friction from the telltale. In and out of Forward and Reverse is quiet. Trim buttom is funky on the up. It snaps. No tach for the trip.. None of the gauges worked. The Merc Tech that hung and rigged the motor said they did?? I was more interested in how it floats and what the extra weight would do. I think it is very close to the old setup.. Self bailing without a problem, no hop, nothing but quiet performance. Everything you ever wanted fom a outboard motor, including the PC of 3 star super-low emission status and no bad 2-stroke oil. :zip:
Oh yeah, motor mounts are loose as a goose in this thing. It shimmys and shakes back there but you can't feel a thing. In fact that is about the only way to tell if it is running at idle if your more than 10 feet away.
I have gotten used to the solid mounts in the big Merc. This is a departure from that. Nothing but good, a few loose ends to tie up as you would expect. Smiles:party: Now for a nap and tear back into the dash area again... build fence at the house, bathroom remodel, the list is growing I think..
 
Thanks for the support. Still haven't tore into the gauge situation. I popped the lid to make sure the terminators were in place. I have a harness that is all ty-wrapped under dash I guess I will start there. Plug and play? :arrr: Sounds like a good idea to me, what caliber shall I use?
 
On a positive note I got some fence built between me and the neighbor with the 10 month old American Bulldog (read climber). It took most of the day Sunday but we knocked it out. 4x6x10' post with 2x4x16' rails and 5/4x6 Premium RED for the picketts. Heck of a heavy booger anyhow. If the dog scales this one we will need to rethink fence building.
 
RidgeRunner said:
On a positive note I got some fence built between me and the neighbor with the 10 month old American Bulldog (read climber). It took most of the day Sunday but we knocked it out. 4x6x10' post with 2x4x16' rails and 5/4x6 Premium RED for the picketts. Heck of a heavy booger anyhow. If the dog scales this one we will need to rethink fence building.
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Nope, go to tractor supply and get you an electric fence charger. Run a strand across the top and I bet it will change his mind.
 
I have a couple of those from my previous dog. He started chewing on the transducer after he ate the harness for the lights (consumed it too). What an animal. Had to string the hot wire around the boat and it parked in the yard..
Here comes the blonde in me- There is a simple procedure for plug and play Smartcraft Monitors and gauges. First couple pages into the manual it says MASTER RESET- Pure Magic after that ... The gauge must have been previously powered up and it was confused as to who its new master IS. :haha: So I put 1.2 hours on it.. Composure, I think it is done gents...
Next is a small bathroom remodel then I can go use this baby and redouble my focus on redfish and trout.
 
my neighbor, growing up, had an issue with his other neighbors bull dog, the dog kept peeing on his flowers(his flower garden was his wifes hobby). The dog kept killing his flowers by peeing on them or digging them. One day he took a metal trash can lid and set it down between the flowers, he hooked a long jumper wire from the trash can lid to the coil wire on his lawn mower. He hid around the corner and waited till he herd pee hitting the trash can lid, once he heard it, he pulled on the rope start for the pawn mower. Needless to say, the dog never came back in his yard. You could see that dog just stare at him from his yard, but he never came back in that yard again
 
spareparts said:
my neighbor, growing up, had an issue with his other neighbors bull dog, the dog kept peeing on his flowers(his flower garden was his wifes hobby). The dog kept killing his flowers by peeing on them or digging them. One day he took a metal trash can lid and set it down between the flowers, he hooked a long jumper wire from the trash can lid to the coil wire on his lawn mower. He hid around the corner and waited till he herd pee hitting the trash can lid, once he heard it, he pulled on the rope start for the pawn mower. Needless to say, the dog never came back in his yard. You could see that dog just stare at him from his yard, but he never came back in that yard again
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LOL :clap:
 
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