Engine Runs Fine, Prop only turns at about idle speed

[blubayliner]

Re: Engine Runs Fine, Prop only turns at about idle speed

I don't know how else to check these without damaging them

yer hammer idea seems good to me. if ya can't see any wood, anywhere. i could see wood on mine, as someone else had been engineerin on my boat and that seemed like a clue. i looked into the hole that ran leagth wise down the center of the boat and exits into the bilge for water draining from the front of the boat. could see dark wood in the hole, + felt in the hole on the backside and was soft and wet with no fiberglass on the back side that i could feel. another clue that i had bad wood was my ft. motor mount bolt holes. the old bolts came out way to easy(this was my 1st clue). my lag bolts themselves were not SS bolts. so the fact that the screw threads where rusted out where they were in the board was suspisious. i inspected those bolt holes every which way i could think of. looked, probed with an ice pick, and like ya said, finially with a destructive method. a drill bit. the drill bit reveal much. dark brown, wet, dust. i also tried running a new lag bolt in my motor mount bolt holes to see if i could torque it up like i thought i should with a new bolt. i couldn't. my suspisions were up enough by that point to make a bigger hole and everything was confirmed...... rot......if i would not have had dusty water, but real wood whith my 1st drill bit. i would have had to repair that hole but would have been happy to see wood instead of rot..... that's was my method of maddness to find out. perhaps there are other ways too......

I am now in the same school of learning that you were.. I removed the motor mounts from the stringers.. and they were different sizes.. clue? and they were not clean and nice looking... another clue.. poked at some wood with a screwdriver and seemed to give way.. another clue.. looks like it's time to change to the repair/ rebuild section.. probably to the part it out and junk it section.. I have more sense than money.. ha, ha..

Thanks!

 

[blubayliner]

Re: Engine Runs Fine, Prop only turns at about idle speed

My final post in this thread.. and it was a long time coming..

I sold the engine on Craigslist.. it was running good,
Pulled out the other parts... steering, trim tabs, throttle/shifter, trim pump & controls, etc..

The last voyage of the blubayliner will be for a fundraiser for Young Life. Hopefully it will make the kids some money with a demolition fundraiser.. "Beat the boat to camp" at $1 /per hit with a sledge, we'll see if it makes any money.

Craigslist and or Ebay will be seeing the other parts going out..

And, I finally got to take the repalcement out.. what did I get? 1989 Sierra Classic Seaswirl with a 150 V6 Johnson Outboard!

Thanks for all your wisdom and help.

 

[Bondo]

Re: Engine Runs Fine, Prop only turns at about idle speed

The last voyage of the blubayliner will be for a fundraiser for Young Life. Hopefully it will make the kids some money with a demolition fundraiser.. "Beat the boat to camp" at $1 /per hit with a sledge, we'll see if it makes any money.

That sounds like the Best Use Possible for that Old Bilgeliner,............

Bring back some Pictures............LOL......