Evinrude 115Hp V4 Project Rebuild / Repowering a Fourwinns Fling Turbo jet boat

[GA_Boater]

I have bought from LMC. In person, not through the website. It is truly a boat junk yard.

It's better to call.

 

[Jon NL]

I have bought from LMC. In person, not through the website. It is truly a boat junk yard.

It's better to call.

What fun I could have there

 

[Jon NL]

 

[Faztbullet]

Better off glassing it all in and then installing a 1200CC jet ski setup

 

[Jon NL]

Notes:

OMC TurboJet Impeller Bearings

Hello all! First time poster here... Recently acquired a 1994 Four Winns Fling with a 115 HP TurboJet... It was passed down to me as a family deal and apparently has 100 hours on the hour meter! All looks well with the vessel and can rip up and down the river with ease... Last night I...

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[Jon NL]

I have these coming from ebay ....

 

[Jon NL]

The COST of all this so far ...............

Wheel Bearings	2​	27​	54​
Used parts 115hp	1​	25​	25​
Oil's	1​	20​	20​
Motor	1​	300​	300​
Pump parts	1​	308.1​	308.1​
Pump parts	1​	13.69​	13.69​
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			720.79​

 

[Faztbullet]

And still not running......

 

[Scott Danforth]

make sure you check the hull for moisture. the balsa cored hulls have a tendency to soak up water like a sponge. especially around the get unit.

 

[Jon NL]

 

[Scott Danforth]

I would clean that up and check for moisture

 

[Jon NL]

So `the red outlines the area of concern as this is where the boat took a good knock sometime during its life.

I think *** when this boat was in Ontario it sustained some damage to the hull and jet pump. A quick patch job was done and it was shipped to Newfoundland to be sold (this is very common for all sorts of broken junk)

The hull was patched with some kind of resin and re gel coated I do not think this was done professionally. I am not even sure if the jet pump was removed as the bolt to hold the pump to the hull that was bent was incased in the resin.....

the yellow is where the resin patch job was, the other area i need to look at is the green block it is split

 

[Jon NL]

I have found this in the interwebs somewhere the attached PDF gives the design of the hull and measurements for the hull to fit the TurboJet

 

[Jon NL]

This boat is the Molded hull #14 i think lol

 

[Jon NL]

So winter has started boat rebuild activities will soon stop due to snow.

Here is the plan for now

0. inspect the muffler, base and adapter plate for damage again and clean up
1. Put a cover on the boat as it’s stored outside at the cabin
2. Build a motor stand for outboard in garage
3. Get outboard running on stand
4. Clean carbs, carb kits, install new t stats
5. Go snowmobiling
6. Clean and inspect hull when the snow goes and make a decision and what to do from there.

I am not going to take the outboard motor off the leg until the hull is repaired and jetpump is back in.

If the boat goes to s### I can always pull the motor head and reinstall on leg and search for a different floaty thing to put this motor on.

The motor I bought came from transport Canada (federal government) it looks hardly used, and taken care of they removed it from a boat to upgrade to 4 stroke.

 

[Scott Danforth]

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So `the red outlines the area of concern as this is where the boat took a good knock sometime during its life.

I think *** when this boat was in Ontario it sustained some damage to the hull and jet pump. A quick patch job was done and it was shipped to Newfoundland to be sold (this is very common for all sorts of broken junk)

The hull was patched with some kind of resin and re gel coated I do not think this was done professionally. I am not even sure if the jet pump was removed as the bolt to hold the pump to the hull that was bent was incased in the resin.....

the yellow is where the resin patch job was, the other area i need to look at is the green block it is split

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the concern is that if the balsa is wet, it cant be dried. it can be removed, however that requires removing the skin from the inside of the boat hull or the exterior of the boat hull. I scrapped a really nice Hydrostream because the balsa core was wet and rotting and turned down a free sailboat because the core had similar issues. the cost and time to properly re-core the hulls would have cost more than the boats would ever be worth.

 

[Jon NL]

Again I am new to boating so This might be a stupid question but I thought this was all fibreglass? How would I know or check if it has balsa ?

 

[racerone]

Agreed-----Most folks just do not know how boats are built.------The parts folks see in the show room are fiberglass.------Then there is foam core / balsa core / cheap plywood , for transom and stringers.----Have even seen chip board ( beaver puke ) used for stringers.----The project I am doing is getting structural parts made with composite ( hockey sticks ) material.---Gone is the plywood.

 

[racerone]

Visit ----composites canada---and--Noah's boat building supplies.-----Lots of information.

 

[Jon NL]