69GlassparMan
Seaman Apprentice
- Joined
- May 7, 2005
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- 41
Okay, After getting new steering setup I finally got my tower of power on the lake today. first here is what I have<br />1968 16.8 ft Glasspar semi deep V citation. Its a big water boat with lots of dig in the back. It weights 1000 without motor.<br />1969 1250 in good shape I got from Billr I rebuilt fuel pumps, cleaned carbs, cleaned and changed fluids, new plugs all wiring look good after fixing some with liquid tape. <br /><br />I put a 4 blade adjustable new composite prop from West marine. Forget name built in Sweden. set pitch for 19.<br /><br />Well put boat in water and primed and pushed up warm up lever and hit choke and started. Right away I could see a problem. I set idle with a hose connection out of water. Idle was fine. Well with backpressure in the water I was having to put warm up lever almost all the way up to keep idling. Everytime even when warmed up that I tried putting main throttle in idle with warm up lever down engine would die<br /><br />I freaked at first because after warming up I tried to go to WOT and throttle would not open up all the way. Then I figured out that if you have warm up lever up main throttle is limited. So I put warm up down low while still idleing. I put in gear and boat started to get to speed. I gunned it to WOT and I would say it was 30-45 seconds to get to top speed. I don't have tach so I am guessing about 5000 rpm or lower. It was not over revving. On my pocket GPS it had me at 29-30 WOT a big jump from my 15-16 with old Bearcat 55. It seemed to run strong and smooth. I kept a close eye on PEE stream as I did not put in new impeller as I had good flow at test. Flow as speed increased was VERY strong so it appears water pump impeller is good from last owner. I got very good acceleration bringing it up and down from 7-29 mph. smooth with steady increase of about 20-30 seconds from 7-29 mph. Only drawback was NO IDLE when throttle put back in neutral. I kept having to start with warm up lever up and try to slow idle as to not put in gear with high rev to hurt lower unit. <br />I also think I am not getting full potential of WOT speed as in talking with others I was guessing with my boat, 2 people, and prop pitch of 19 that I would get somewhere in the 34-36 WOT if not more and a 31-33 cruise speed if not more!<br />I have not hooked up power tilt yet , I just had tilt bar set at proper hole to match boat angle. I had my electric trolling motor along for reverse of boat as since power tilt is not yet installed I did not want motor jumping up in reverse . Just used electric motor for reverse. I am wondering if when I hook up power tilt if I may be able to get more speed?<br />Upon going back to launch after about 1 hour cruising I noticed that I still could not idle. Also I was getting a miss or rough idle with warm up bar up and holding about 1000 rpm give or take. I tried opening up throttle and it was fine. Just rough trying to idle. I am thinking dist advance is set to retarded. It was getting dark so I could not open up cowling and adjust idle and throttle linkage.<br />I felt motor after being WOT for a good amount of time. It was not hot and water coming out peehole was only warm not hot so that seems good.<br /><br />Well what do you think? I am impressed as motor is very smooth and not noisy as compared to my bearcat. <br />Oh and lastly, How do I know if it is charging my battery. I have my lowrance fish finder hooked up and it said a constant 12.4 volts while driving. With my bearcat it would noticeably increase voltage when driving. Hope it is charging.<br />Any advice??<br />am I wrong to think I should get more speed? Thanks<br />Tod
