Twins with Twins, Anyone?
- Thread starter kidturbo
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Well,, I started today off by stabbing myself in the forearm with a pick tool that was laying on top of the outdrive. Drove that little sucker into the muscle about 2" deep, to the point I couldn't pull it out. And no I didn't take any pictures..
Luckily my new found helper isn't squeamish, and was able to yank it out while I held the skin down. Was like pulling an arrow out of a foam backstop. So while I was at the local quick care getting a tetanus shot, he was free to sort out the last injector issue. Came back to two running engines with stable balance rates.
Then we noticed one of the prop shafts is bent.
Spent rest of the day chasing down a dial indicator. Sure enough, it's tweaked at least 0.060 at the seal. But not gonna let that hold up progress. Tomorrow we're back on the water.
Luckily my new found helper isn't squeamish, and was able to yank it out while I held the skin down. Was like pulling an arrow out of a foam backstop. So while I was at the local quick care getting a tetanus shot, he was free to sort out the last injector issue. Came back to two running engines with stable balance rates.
Then we noticed one of the prop shafts is bent.
Spent rest of the day chasing down a dial indicator. Sure enough, it's tweaked at least 0.060 at the seal. But not gonna let that hold up progress. Tomorrow we're back on the water.
Close but no cookie...
Engines and trans performed great. Besides the port lift pump kicking off and on a couple times due to a bad weather-pack connector, everything checked out.
However the 4 blade props we have on there would unhook just about the time she was ready to nose over. Tried bunch of trim setups, but she just wouldn't get up on top the water. So I sourced a different set of props for tomorrow. Did collect a good bit of engine data, reviewing that now.
Here is a gopro clip. https://youtu.be/gGf-zLbNPV4
Sorry I had the sound turned off. But she's finally, makeing waves... :woott: :woott:
I'm not a boat guy, so can someone explain what the props unhooking means? Is that like cavitation? Like the boat is getting ready to pop up on plane, but it just spins the props like a burnout instead of putting the power down?
Ya sure sound like a boat guy..
Pretty much spot on..
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Pretty much spot on..
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what dia. are the props you tried?and whats the dia. of the 6 blades,,sometimes a 1/4" makes a big difference.
What we had is 16-7/8" dia. cut down #6 props. Hopefully what we try today is closer to 17-1/2" dia.
Certainly in that take your best guess realm right now..
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Certainly in that take your best guess realm right now..
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Have you gotten ahold of Ken@propgods? He's local to that area and has hundreds of props. All he does is setup boats.
Ken can't help him I don't think. Lol. He is super sharp with outboards though. I had a big power sporty that was burning up his wheels, had to go with Veem. No problems since, just an FYI if it starts burning them up...