my old boat!!!!!!!! Nice picture looks sweet!! That was a great boat, shined and looked awesome for the age... Sweat and Tears....LOL

08 Don Aronow... thanks Pete!

Thought it had fresh power from a couple years ago you had that rebuilt thread. Something go boom?

No overheated them due to a faulty warning system wiring... thats why Dave rewired the boat and installed his new dash caps. Nothing was wrong with them just rebuilt them again because I CAN. Basically tore them down to make sure they weren't hurt etc. Went through the tans again, ended up putting new planetarys in this time, new wiring on the engines, new Hardin Coolers etc etc. The whole damn boat is brand new now!!

Engines were rebuilt top to bottom, new lifters, springs, valves, bearing rings etc. everything is 100% new and ready to go again!

Let me know when you want to fix that massive blown by issue you have with yours in your go pro videos!!

ouch . play nice

Easy cowboy! I was just wondering what went wrong so if it`s something dumb I could learn from it since you did such a nice job putting everything together. Didn`t mean anything by it.
Yup my blow by was bad, was planning on going thru the bottom end of one motor this year another next year till the distributor rotor came loose and detonated the other "better blow by" motor. Lucky for us we got to go till the end of the summer .

I`m pretty much done spending $$ on the boat so it`ll be sitting for a while. One day I~ll have everything new too..

It's all good!! Me and ICDED have a special bond on here lol. I'm sure we would get along great in person! I overheated mine on the Jacksonville run, sucked up a bunch of grass idling around. When I got up on plane and ran it a minute or so before I realized there was no water psi it was to late the engines were 250-260 degrees. Engines ran perfect when we shut them down but my warning system never sounded that's why we rewired the boat and went with the new dash cap to put the water psi gauge right in my face because for some reason I am consumed with watching the tachs..... There was no damage to my engines but we changed everything anyways just to be safe so it was still a full rebuild. Went through the trans too new clutches, seals and planetarys (Pins were a little loose) just to make the trans was ok. New coolers, New Distributors... Paint the valve covers again... yeah it sucked I will have eyes glued to the water psi gauge now!!

Sorry your boat went down you always have it running awesome, I actually think your blow by might just be water condensation in the oil from the oil temps not getting hot enough. But yeah that piston is done hopefully the others you can reuse the bores look like they might clean up in the pictures. Might not be as bad as you think.