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Just like most of you said, it was a fuel issue. Although I can't tell whether it was the fuel pump or the carbs because it worked on both. New fuel pump kit and removed, cleaned and did the gasket kit and all three carbs. She's running smooth with an 800 rpm idle in the water. Once again...

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Finally took her out yesterday by myself and the day before with 4 people. Same problem 7-8 mph at not more than 2200 rpm throttle all the way down. Did not try chocking it while underway. Will try again. I'm leaning towards fuel pump and carbs, because we have compression and spark on all...

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Good Question BS...I am assuming that it is running fine, b/c it ran fine before you went out with 6 people. I will test it again, weather permitting and report back.

The problem is that I would have to go out with all six people to test it...not likely. It works fine with me alone.

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Spare, if I understand you guys correctly, even if the motor ran and idled perfectly when I was by myself and the problem only started when I had an additional load (six people in the boat), I still could be looking at a fuel issue?

I checked compression and I have 4 cylinders at 116 and 2 at 120, so we're good there. I took out the sound box and sprayed a can of carburetor and choke cleaner on all three. The timing advance arm moves freely and I would like to check the ignition timing adjustment, but I have misplaced my...

Done almost 40mph at 5600 rpm but don't like to push this old motor that far. I've had this prop for many years and has served me well, both with or without a load. What's mind boggling is that with the throttle all the way down ( and the fuel consumption that goes along with that) it would only...

Took the boat out yesterday for a test drive by myself and was working fine. 1. One person on board (200lbs) 2. Idle was steady at 800-850 rpm. 3. Throttled up real good and got her up to 39 mph at 5200 rpm. Believing everything was good to go, I called the wife and kids for an inter-coastal...

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I have not abandoned nor forgotten about my V20 friends, however I have been doing a lot of traveling and with not much time on the road to check in as much as I would like to. Our architecture and building business has been very slow so we’ve taken on to do building inspections for the Federal...

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Welcome to the board! Check John's site. I've bought from him a windshield and some custom doors for my center console. http://www.updplastics.com/wellcraft%20boats.htm

Happy Birthday Spare!:beer:

Reel, I believe you are right on the money with the location of the fuel vent and how the water gets in the tank. Mine is a 1980 and does have the fuel vent below the rub rail. Motor has been running like champ, however I went out today and the seas were 2'-4' and although that Carolina flair...