hooterville
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- Feb 18, 2007
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i bought a 2008 bass tracker grizzly 1860 a few months ago. i finally got all my carb and engine running issues out of the way. One problem i have noticed is when i am cruising down the lake i look back and water is spraying back up on the transom of my boat and my kicker engine. I have a cmc pt130 tilt unit on my transom with a 48 hp Johnson engine. Speed is about 28-29mph which is fine with me. Dealer installed cmc unit and i installed engine on boat myself.
if i tilt the engine up a little it lessens the amount of water being sprayed but i think would increase rpm's. when i do this the front of boat starts to bounce a little on the water and gradually gets worse.I trim the motor back down and it settles out to a smooth plane but water starts coming back on transom.
I read in another post where the fin (or whatever it's called)above my prop should be about 1" below the bottom of the boat, which is what it is
(i measured with tape and straight edge).
I would think with my simple TN reasoning that my motor needs to be lowered physically on the engine bracket or cmc unit needs lowered on the transom. which would get prop and lower unit further down in the water. Water pump is pumping water fine.
I read in another post that my motor should be raised instead of lowered. I would think lowered.
I looked at the holes on the cmc unit to transom and engine to cmc unit.
I could lower engine on cmc unit about 1" but would have to redrill top hole on cmc.
If i lowered cmc on the transom i would have to re drill at least top holes on the transom and would probably be ok on bottom since it's slotted.
what do i do? don't have any pics of setup but i could take some later.
if i tilt the engine up a little it lessens the amount of water being sprayed but i think would increase rpm's. when i do this the front of boat starts to bounce a little on the water and gradually gets worse.I trim the motor back down and it settles out to a smooth plane but water starts coming back on transom.
I read in another post where the fin (or whatever it's called)above my prop should be about 1" below the bottom of the boat, which is what it is
(i measured with tape and straight edge).
I would think with my simple TN reasoning that my motor needs to be lowered physically on the engine bracket or cmc unit needs lowered on the transom. which would get prop and lower unit further down in the water. Water pump is pumping water fine.
I read in another post that my motor should be raised instead of lowered. I would think lowered.
I looked at the holes on the cmc unit to transom and engine to cmc unit.
I could lower engine on cmc unit about 1" but would have to redrill top hole on cmc.
If i lowered cmc on the transom i would have to re drill at least top holes on the transom and would probably be ok on bottom since it's slotted.
what do i do? don't have any pics of setup but i could take some later.
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