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Old 05-03-2006 | 06:40 AM
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it was more the over reving cast internals than the fuel problom. the piston did hit the valve and bent the intake valve. i got the head at the machine shop now get all fixed up. my biggest problom now is there is so much water in my oil lines and cooler i have been hanging them up and letting it drain out but there was alot of water when rod or wrist pin when threw the block.if i get most of the water out can i run the new engine for a little bit then keep changeing the oil to get it the rest of the way out?
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Old 05-03-2006 | 11:20 AM
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Oh god dont. Replace the oil lines and cooler. Its amazing how difficult, no, impossible it is to get all the metal and whatnot out of lines and coolers after a blowup. Its not worth it on a fresh motor.
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Old 05-03-2006 | 12:08 PM
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i dont see any metal in the engine though. just alot of water. i am not saying that theres none but i have'nt seen any.
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Save yourself the headache and just get a new oil cooler. I wish I took the advise given on here to do the same thing. Ended up spinning a bearing because of contamination in oil cooler. $350 would of been a small price compared to a $3000 price and not to mention boating down time. How can you put a price on that. Trust me, if you have a broken piston, you have metal.

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Originally Posted by fbh-velocity
Griff, what did you end up with in jet size.? I have a similar motor i work with right now and need jetting in. I start with pri 74 sek 87 and 6.5 power valve. Factory jet was 72, 87
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I think I was somewhere around 78 primaries and 92 secondaries. I ran a 6.5 pv in the primaries and none in the secondaries.

Not 100% sure on the jet sizes as it was a few years ago and a different boat, but it was somewhere close to that.
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Old 05-04-2006 | 06:40 AM
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Save yourself the headache and just get a new oil cooler. I wish I took the advise given on here to do the same thing. Ended up spinning a bearing because of contamination in oil cooler. $350 would of been a small price compared to a $3000 price and not to mention boating down time. How can you put a price on that. Trust me, if you have a broken piston, you have metal.
ya you guy. where def. right the cooler is junk i got a new one coming today. but i was able to run all my lines threw the parts washer and blew them out. i know theres no metal in them. but the cooler no matter how much i flushed it the compressed air always blew out metel sludge. thanks for helping me realize this
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