Hi Guys im back!
Yeah got the boat going great, been waiting to get some pics to put on the site but they have not turned up yet, so will fill you in on the details, and add the running pics later.
AS you know I was getting very dishartend with the boat so took the gear out and decieded to sell it on E-Bay, but after a few weeks I kind of kept thinking about the work I put in to it and the money I spent on it, and read your posts again about those ready to runs so thought I would give it another chance. Got another piston and liner from Dave, re-biult the motor and waited for the next outing, well the day arrived very windy, we were at Stubbers outdoor centre 5 Acre lake would it run today? still a nightmare to start with plug lose, fuel every where but it started! so in it went, I could not believe how smooth the boat was in that rough water, but it only ran a few mins and stopped. When I got the boat back I leaned the bottom out a lot to try and stop the amount of fuel comming out of the carb and plug as I was trying to start it, this seemed to help, but the amount of oil and water on the belt and flywheel meant the belt would slip all the time, (very frustrating) just about to give up when a guy lent me some nitro cleaner. This cleaned the oil off the belt and I got it running again. It still revs it head off when you start it but once in the water its fine, leaned the motor out little by little all day top and bottom, done 3/4 of a gallon of 25% Duraglow, getting faster every run, rooster tail looked like 30ft not 3feet, (sorry Martin) handling was super smooth tunrs very tight without hooking even in that chop. Still more to come out of the boat as when I got it home I found that a load of paper towel had got dragged down the propshaft and It was very tight to turn so with the shaft free its got to run faster, plus the motor ran very cool and even though I kept leaning it out it showed no signs of cutting out on full throttle even though the main needle is only 3/4 of a turn out!! so very happy with it, not sure to get a better tuned pipe see how it goes next time, till then thanks for convincing me to carry on! hope to get some running photos on here soon.
Atb
Steve.
Ps Dave said solder the end of the drive cable.