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hblair 09-22-2015 11:56 AM

Hydraulic rollers, and still running the 750 holleys. Engine guy was thinking 550 maybe more with a bigger carb?

hblair 09-24-2015 12:05 PM

We took it out tuesday and had a little problem with the right transmission. Turns out the cable shift adjustment was a little off. I hope we didn't damage the transmission. We plan to take it back out this afternoon. From what little bit I throttled it I could tell it's gonna be a whole different boat. Probably won't be able to go full throttle til we get hydraulic steering. Here's both motors idling yesterday...

https://youtu.be/HlY0xUMLxOI

hblair 09-27-2015 10:43 PM

Turns out the right transmission is damaged. It slips and has very dirty fluid now.

This is the same transmission that was on the engine that was dropped. The case was cracked in the fall so I swapped all the internals out to another good case that I had. Apparently something did not go right. We will be pulling the starboard engine and transmission out again and sending the trans back off to KC transmission in Washington state.

jeff32 09-28-2015 06:13 AM

:(

phughes69 09-28-2015 11:01 AM

are they Merc trans missions or Velvet drives?

hblair 09-28-2015 12:03 PM

They are merctrans II

502ss 09-29-2015 07:23 PM

Upgrade to the BW! I got two good running ones that you can have cheap!!

hblair 11-13-2015 05:59 PM

Well boys lets try this again. Transmission is back. Engine/Transmission mated, hanging in the air. Plan to put back in the boat tomorrow. Might have this going by Thanksgiving. :lolhit:

hblair 11-13-2015 06:01 PM

And no Jim, I don't want your borg warners! :angry-smiley-038:

90viper 11-14-2015 11:48 AM

What a bummer sorry that happened. Not questioning your knowledge just wanted to make sure you realize you can not hear detonation in a boat.


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