Thread: Scotty, put your boat here...
Results 161 to 180 of 373
-
09-11-2009 01:59 PM
"Tear gas and draft beer don't mix."
-
09-11-2009 10:23 PM
yeah its kinda like that confusing "righty loosey lefty tighty thing" gets me every time.. Anybody know what end of the crankshaft the flywheel even goes on ??
-
-
09-14-2009 09:54 PM
Okay so it may not look like much to most but to me its the sight of one more battle won !!
The Flywheel , Coupler , Bellhousing-(flywheel cover) , & starter are back on, all tourqed, starter properly shimmed & ready to roll..
Sooo long story short the flywheel I had was for a bellhousing mounted starter & not a block mounted like I am obviously using with the XR.. For anybody woundering what the differance is the ring gear on the flywheel for a bellhousing mount starter is on the rear of the flywheel as opposed to to front of the flywheel for a block mount.. Sad thing is that I was obviously the last one to use the flywheel on this motor when it was a twin turbo setup in another boat with a tranny.. So that just doubles my ignorance of overlooking the matter.. Anyways after many hours of racking my brain over what may appear to be a simple issue but really major one if I couldn't resolve it I got it figured out & now as you see its back togather , tested & ready to go.. All & all it ended up being a simple (that I made complex) fix by removing & re-installing the ring gear on the right side.. I knew this could be done but my hangup was that since I had never had to do that I was (out of ignorance again) looking at the machined "stop" or "seat" in the middle of the flywheel as part of the ring gear & thought the side that the gear needed to go on was approx. .020 to small in diameter for the gear to go on & I was doomed..
Enuff ring gear rambling... Maybe somebody else will learn from my simple oversight b/c I know I sure did & now I am a semi-certified flywheel specialist..
-
09-14-2009 10:03 PM
In the past few days I have had the front of the motor all mocked up with all the front end goodies including the supercharger & now I am in the process of comunicating with Vortech on my lower crank pulley to get the spacing just right since I was short the crankshaft accesory pulley in my kit..
Anyways the motor could be dropped in the boat tomorrow but I am attempting to get all the little "quirks" that Always comes with Any build out of the way before it goes in the hole b/c if you have never done it Trust me it gets really old climbing in & out of the bilge over & over again & always needing just one more tool.. There will be plenty of that during the rest of the rigging process anyways !!
-
09-14-2009 10:13 PM
Keep up the good work, bud!
"Tear gas and draft beer don't mix."
-
09-25-2009 01:21 PM
Not made a ton of progress in the past few days but did manage to get my water pump bracket finished.. Also got the ignition/coil/merc plug bracket all fabbed up & sent off to powdercoat along with a the superchager brackets..
-
09-25-2009 02:36 PM
A little postal birdie just dropped of 4 nice transom rings..
Thanks Chris !!!!
-
- Join Date
- Oct 2008
- Location
- south jersey
- Posts
- 155
09-25-2009 09:41 PMShow me some pics man.....something....quit holden out!
-
09-29-2009 04:58 PM
No pics to post just yet as I'm in the waiting process again..
The crankshaft acessory pulley I have been needing from Vortech is officially on its way east as of yesterday.. I also just ordered the 9 pin merc. engine harness so hopefully that stuff will make it by the weekend..
Nothing ground breaking but progress indeed !!
-
-
-
-
-
-
09-30-2009 09:09 PM
You going to try to make it to the OPA race?
If the boat is together for the PR, you know there is a seat for you.
-
09-30-2009 09:43 PM
Which OPA race ?? I didn't think they were doing Chattanooga this year ?
Thanks !! I still need to check out that PR info..
-
09-30-2009 09:53 PM
I don't know what I was thinking. I thought I saw something about Oct 11... Let me check the GTS database.
-
09-30-2009 10:27 PM
yeah let me know.. I hated that they had to cancel it last year & was hopping they would bring it back b/c it was a great race & all the teams loved it.. The downtown thing friday night was always cool as well.. If they have it I am definatly there, May even have to get some of the GA punks to come up !! Yeah you know who you are..
-
10-01-2009 07:00 AM