Vintage Grumble

Actuallllllllly, Dave has a 3hp outboard and no boat, i'll try talk him into buying the banana, lelz.

I think Dave decided home made long tail boats were going to be the next big thing, so we aren't far off.

Its four up from neutral, and has a N light, so pretty plush. Its also semi auto, so no clutch to worry about. It got a clean sheet WOF yesterday, dude even commented on how "tight" it felt, so it may or may not be pregnant. You can collect it from mine, or I can drop it off at J5's for ya, no probs either way. There's also a camping fridge for @UTERUS that I assume he wants at J5's, so I was going to strap that on the tray, or if @HighLUX has room might be able to take it out if ya'll are swinging past.

Puhuhu, I honestly have no idea what a paid blowie goes for?

That's a good question, they seem to be going for about $28k-ish? so about 140 good blowies?

Nah nah nah, I've already got one of them.

So after daily’in this bad boy for near on 3 years, I'm going to move him on. Open to swaps, for cash, blowies or cash. I will also accept cash, or blowies. So yeh, you should buy this, or peer pressure you mate or dad into it. Hell, even talk your mum into it.

I see a battery, and a bit of 4x2, good work lad.

I think its got HD tubes in ATM even, loooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnng whistle.

/your bikes going for a WOF on Tuesday, 1 like = 1 prayer.

17 x something? Cumham will know what the are.

Oh true. Dave's got 3x sensors, 2x of which have a timing out issue (from when he was tuning that plane) but still read 100% accurate, so hes happy to slap them on anything and see what happens. At least that will show me if it is a lean out issue, and I can go from there, as having to drive to a body of water to try shit out is a bit of a P in the A.

We do?

I just talked to the broinlaw, he's keen to slap the wideband on and see what happens. I didn't even know they were a thing?

Actually, my broinlaw has a innovate wideband, if I bung that in before the water enters the pipe we should be all good. Does the oil bugger up the sensors?

True, guess I've always gone a bit on the rich side, in the hope its less likely to seize. But by those charts up there, and looking at the plugs I pulled, it may not even be that lean. Mind you, gawd knows how long those plugs have been in there. Also, I only just learned a plug chop, literally means chopping the plugs open. I had confused a read with a chop, thinking the chop referred to cutting/chopping the power when at WOT.

Is it running all G? Sawnt you guys going way up wiotahi ways. SURE WAS WINDY.

It's a slippery slope to becoming Ned..

Wouldnt 2 strokes plugs always be a bit on the greasy/carbony side?

Today I had a nose at the least happy spare engine, mainly to see how hard changing the crank seals would be. The rear is 2 min job, and the front won't be that hard at all. Behind the front cover, CDI seems flash for a 50 year old motor, And behind the mag is the seal, easy as, Then I had a nose at the exhaust, sort of a weird set up, big open water cooled box, Big ol ports, So yeh, definitely not a twin pipe friendly sort of deal. Old plugs from current motor in boat confirm lean/hot, And my new high flow fuel delivery set up, ALSO, I think we might have been thinking about the tune pipe paulses incorrectly. The paulse makes it back to the port before it shuts, so that means the other port hasn't opened yet, thus the paulses shalt never meet. Also can confirm these motors have the pistons 180deg out.

Ha, will be a short demo with the way it's running atm, but thanks for the offer.

Dats true, but rich wouldn't cause the running on issue, and it needed a lot of choke to start, so I'm thinking it's more of a lean issue. I cleaned the carb out, but didn't see anything really. I got new spark plugs, and have managed to squeeze a 1/4 fuel filter onto the 3/16 hose, along with a free flowing tap, so will see if that makes any difference.

That could be a possibility. So you think its sucking in air and leaning out, and then getting too hot, thus causing the loss of power and running on? Hmmmmmmmmm. The last owner had recently changed the bearings and seals, so may have cocked something up, Barry's will Barry. We were thinking the float was emptying out due to lack of fuel flow (due to smutz in the float needle) and putting around gave it time to refill. I'll clean out the carb, and work on making sure the flow of fuel is as good as it can be, and if that fails to fix it, I had better replace the seals.

So last week I tidied up and fixed a few things. First thing was the gas cap, I opened it and touched the rubber seal, and the peened retainer broke off and fell in the tank, ha. I managed to tap the cap, so I could bolt it back together. I cleaned, painted and made a new seal for the guts of it. Next I rerouted and cleaned up the wiring, but I'll eventually go through and redo a lot of it, as it's all Barry spec crimp on terminals and the like. Next I tried to clean the steering wheel, but it ended up as a repaint job (it's pretty bright, but closer to the seat shade now). I also rotated it on the boss so it's up the correct way. I removed a big ugly bracket, and replaced it with stainless washers to make it prettier. And the steering doofer looks near new! I also cleaned up the switches a bit too. Next I made some water outlet things from stainless bolts. One for the bilge, and one for the tell tail. I put both on the drivers side, so I can see what's happening. I also put the tell tail in easy reach, for hand spec temp checks. Anyways, on Monday I took it to Bonnydoon with Keltik and Keltik snr. It took a bit to get it started (just need to learn the correct choke/throttle ratio) but once going it ran really well, and didn't leave me disappointed with its power/speed, as I was quite worried about that. BUT, after say 5 mins of blasting around, it slowly lost power. The engine note didn't change, it just got slowly more gutless. I found if I went back to just over idle for a few mins, and then gunned it, it would run good again, but only for a few minutes. It would also run on when I went to turn it off. I thought it might be too lean (needle was set to max lean), so we tried moving the needle richer, but it wouldn't even run on anything but the original leanest position. We tried running with the gas cap open incase it was the lack of a breather, but that made no difference. We checked the jets and cleaned out the bowl, but all seemed OK. We didn't remove the float needle, but there was speculation from some, that the flow through it open didn't seem enough, but I wasn't keen to pull this apart in the lake, so went home. I hope to have a fiddle and try again this weekend. Action shot from Keltiks vessel,

ITS ALL A HAVE, an elaborate ruse to sell tune pipes! As far as I understand, a tune pipe wont do dick if its taking opposing pulses from two cylinders, unless how I think tune pipes work, is not how tune pipes work? I'll have a look and see if the ports are separate in the head itself, because twin tune pipes hanging out the back would be amazing. Edit: Yeh nah yeh, that wont work.