Well I followed the SEI break-in schedule faithfully and have clocked up 10 hours of run time below 3000 rpm, and have run it up to full throttle a bit and I'm happy. The drive still wines but less than before or I got used to it, being only the second boat I ever had with an I/O I don't really have anything to compare to.
I let the boat set in the water for a week and didn't take on any water so that's a good thing.
Sorted out the corroded wire connections for the dash lights and everything electrical that I'm aware of is working. The tach drifted a bit at first but I picked up a tip in another thread saying to turn the setting screw on the back of tach a few times and that solved that. I can't remember who it was but Thanks! Have a couple of toggle switches that I have no idea what they are for but there is a decal on the dash referring to a halon fire extinguisher which I can't find so maybe they had something to do with that. who knows.
The shifting is good. It will shift into forward and reverse nicely and comes out of gear well in reverse but coming out of forward occasionally requires a slight tug on the control past the stop point. Since there is so many places in the system to make adjustments I could use some help as to what to adjust to get it to disengage a bit sooner.
The engine is running great, starts easy. no hesitation and is strong and quiet. I'm afraid to touch anything on it but I should pull a couple of spark plugs at least just to see how the mix is. It does love it's gas.
Anyway, I think I got lucky with this boat, Had originally thought to get it running and then sell but I'm getting quite fond of her...LOL
Thanks for all the help folks..
