Hi guys, finally got the glasstream seaquest in the water Sunday afternoon. It didn't go very well. Boat looks good, Boat floated, which is good, but I discovered a couple of probs....
The boat launch was busy, so I planned to motor a couple hundred yards up river and unscrew the water intake hose going into the engine to be sure the impeller was putting water to the water pump. Well, in the procees of motoring up the river, I went almost full throttle to try to plane the boat, boat didn't want to plane (potential prop discussion another day) I had the engine cover off, and glanced back at the engine and saw a little smoke, then looked at the temp guage pegged out, killed the motor from almost full throttle. Didn't want to do damage. Let the engine sit fifteen minutes and was gonna motor over to the ramp, but the engine was locked. Wouldn't do anything, starter would engage but their was resistance.
So, got a tow to the ramp, went back and took the drive off, tried turning the motor over, still locked. oh crap, I'm thinking I seized my 1200 dollar worth of parts and machine work.
I figured I might as well pull the plugs, did that, hit the starter and it was like old faithful out of all cylinders. Engine was free. I went ahead and pulled the engine out of the boat, pulled the intake and heads and oil pan to dry it out. There was a chunk of steel in the oil pan (unrelated to this drama) It was a lobe off a cam. Pulled the cam and it was missing small plugs here and there, and this one big chunk. Anmyways, bad casting on the sealed power cam, they're gonna warranty it.
As for the water, I just set my manifolds and risers up and filled em with water, the water chambers are completely full, but not water in the exhaust area at all. I think my manifolds and risers are fine.
This is the boat I took the old 888 setup, and had a 302 built to go in it. The Y pipe DOES NOT have any flaps in the tops of them like the chevy 350 setup had. Question, is this right? Are there not supposed to be any flaps? What keeps the water out?
Did water come in because my exhaust system was dry and going from almost full throttle to nothing? every cylindeer was full of water. I'm convinced it came from the back of the boat thru the exhaust when I killed it. flaps?
The boat launch was busy, so I planned to motor a couple hundred yards up river and unscrew the water intake hose going into the engine to be sure the impeller was putting water to the water pump. Well, in the procees of motoring up the river, I went almost full throttle to try to plane the boat, boat didn't want to plane (potential prop discussion another day) I had the engine cover off, and glanced back at the engine and saw a little smoke, then looked at the temp guage pegged out, killed the motor from almost full throttle. Didn't want to do damage. Let the engine sit fifteen minutes and was gonna motor over to the ramp, but the engine was locked. Wouldn't do anything, starter would engage but their was resistance.
So, got a tow to the ramp, went back and took the drive off, tried turning the motor over, still locked. oh crap, I'm thinking I seized my 1200 dollar worth of parts and machine work.
I figured I might as well pull the plugs, did that, hit the starter and it was like old faithful out of all cylinders. Engine was free. I went ahead and pulled the engine out of the boat, pulled the intake and heads and oil pan to dry it out. There was a chunk of steel in the oil pan (unrelated to this drama) It was a lobe off a cam. Pulled the cam and it was missing small plugs here and there, and this one big chunk. Anmyways, bad casting on the sealed power cam, they're gonna warranty it.
As for the water, I just set my manifolds and risers up and filled em with water, the water chambers are completely full, but not water in the exhaust area at all. I think my manifolds and risers are fine.
This is the boat I took the old 888 setup, and had a 302 built to go in it. The Y pipe DOES NOT have any flaps in the tops of them like the chevy 350 setup had. Question, is this right? Are there not supposed to be any flaps? What keeps the water out?
Did water come in because my exhaust system was dry and going from almost full throttle to nothing? every cylindeer was full of water. I'm convinced it came from the back of the boat thru the exhaust when I killed it. flaps?
