Yay, Yammie runs, Yay!

[Monkey Butler]

Got the test drive in today....

While I park the car the crew makes ready under the close scrutiny of the Admiral.

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Following Skool's advice I ran 50:1 premix on top of the VRO and took a couple of swigs of the TCW-3 just like he said...

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Idled around for a while....

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Note to self: search V20 forum for thread about painting cowling.

Everything seemed okay so we crossed our fingers and...

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seeing as how this motor is of legal drinking age I really didn't push it. Never took it over 4500RPM which gave around 32MPH (As seen in lower left corner of ancient GPS).

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The Admiral on the bridge with the Mini-Admiral at the helm...

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Back on the trailer. Now the real fun begins! Scraping, sanding, patching, polishing...

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... and just because Hammer gets such a big kick out of it...

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[lumberslinger178]

tally nice pics looks like she gets up and goes ;D

[THEFERMANATOR]

Not bad at all for a single 200, not bad at all. That sounds pretty close to what a V20 would do with a 200 YAMMIE. She looks like she was well lubricated, the mosquitos must have been chokin on it ;D. My buddies 248 with a pair of 225's doesn't cruise off much quicker.

[macojoe]

I always run double oil the first tank each year!! These old motors need it!

mine is 20 years old now also.

Great pic's!! Now you know you have something to clean up and get ready and know it runs!!

[willy]

Good for you Tally, been on a few of them first sea trials, one never knows. I will tell you though if it ain't rusted to bad those old yammies run man. Good old friend of mine who says the best engine ever built is the old evinrudes tells me also that his only other choice would be a yammie, he has a 150 hp that is old as the hills on grannies chest and he runs it all year every year fishing fresh and salt depending on whats running. Good luck with yours, if you get half the life he has gotten on his you will be fishing a long time ;)

[msbhammer]

Great Pics. tally....and I just Love that Monkey. ;D ;D ;D

[charlie_the_tuna]

hamster, a chimpanzee is not a monkey.
its an ape.
how dare you.

[Airslot]

Tally, as for the cowling, Hammer is the resident paint GURU, pm him about painting ;D

Pix look great and the family looks relaxed and like they enjoyed the heck out of it, that makes it money well spent.

As for your "ancient GPS", take it off and send it to me. *While those GP31's are no chartplotter, they are one of the best GPS units ever made. *I'd love to have one on my boat as a plotter and backup.

[reelapeelin]

Great pix, Tally!!... you went right out and got something I never have...a pic of yer boat up on plane 8) ... glad the fam w/ya on this project...looks like all hadda good time 8) ...

[Shawsee]

Great job with the launch Tally! Was that Lake Quinsig? Sure looks familiar. Glad you and the family had some fun together.

[twistedparot]

thats awsome dude! something bout seeing an old boat and motor that can still get her done. dont know what exactly makes it so cool but, its just cool. and those are some darn good numbers for any motor on that boat.

my pre katrina boat had an old 79 evinrude 150 on it. never even considered repowering! goes to show ya how long a well built motor will last if taken care of.

[Kajun]

got to love it when a plan comes together!

[msbhammer]

Those older GPS units allways put me on top of the wrecks. You might have missed some past threads, but I Hate painting !!, never goes well for me. >:( :D ;)

[bradford]

Old GPS, shoot, try using an old King loran from 1985! ;D Skools Out did an awesome paint job on an engine cowling a while back.

[Stinky_Hooker]

Nice job man!! Im happy for you!!

I seen a 230 Coastal and trailer (no motor) for sale this weekend. Its an 88 model and I stopped to look it over for grins and giggles. They want 4k. its a pretty solid boat from what I can tell. MAN I want it bad!! :-X

[THEFERMANATOR]

I have an old SI-TEX LORAN from the 60's, still works great ;D.

[Pipe_Dream]

Way to go, Tally Ho! Nothing like when things go as planned, and you have a successful launch. And what Reel said . . . I've got to leave my mate at the dock one day and have her take some pics of the PD screaming past. ;D Very nice.

[Monkey Butler]

Thanks for all the kind words and encouragement guys! I took Friday and Monday off to stretch out the weekend and I've either been working on the boat or out on the lake on it.

Everything didn't go without incident though.

Sunday was the first day I tried running off of the main tank instead of portables. I had already taken around 90 gallons of gas out of the tank before the pickup sucked air and I collected maybe 4 to 5 ounces of water. I then took off the sender cover and took a peek inside. I even got pics for Hammer...

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I tried pumping more gas out through the hole and I only got about anothe half gallon with about a thimble full of water in it.

I buttoned it back up and put a new Racor fileter on and threw in 20 gallons of gas. Out on the lake and after a good run stopped for a swim. Had some T-Storms coming in so we headed back to the ramp. Came off plane for a no wake zone and when I throttled back up it bogged badly. Oh, Oh.... Switched back to the portable and pumped the bulb but it wouldn't get har... um,... build up enough internal pressure so that I couldn't compress it fully any longer and the motor still wouldn't start. Tried pumping the bulb some more and noticed a strong gas smell. I took the cover off the motor and found that the plastic bowl that hold the filter built in filter on had come completely off!. I tried to screw it on but it seemed to keep cross threading. Got it on "good 'nuff" and managed to idle back to the ramp. I got soaked but avoided the lightening.

After the fact analysis found 1.) The bowl had an o-ring that was too large installed keeping it from seating properly. The PO had this marina serviced so there you go. 2.) All the hose switching caused me to create a kink in the fuel line so that when I tried to start it the next day it took me an hour to figure out what the problem really was. 3.) It still has a flat spot in the midrange that responds to a quick blip of the choke so it looks like I will be rebuilding the carbs after all. They sat for two years prior to this. 4.) The big cabin is a great place for kids to sit out bad weather and for changing out of wet clothes too. 5.) I must be gettin' smarter in my old age because all of this didn't happen out at sea somewhere.

Oh, and there was the broken Powerwinch cable too. My wife said the boat ride was like Gilligan's Island. My daughter said the launch ramp haul out was like McGyver.

And now for some rapid fire responses not necessarily in the order they were presented...

I'm happy with the performance so far but remember the 125 gallon gas tank was empty.

I'd think it would fly with twin 225's

Ape's is monkeys too.

Yes it was Quinsig. Punch the lat/lon in the pic into Google Earth and you can see right were I was.

Yeah, me too

Your right, it is a fine GPS.

There is a 230 Costal for sale down the road a bit from me too. I might call the number on it just out of curiousity.

Family time is what it's all about for me.

Steve P.

[C YENSEN]

congrats on the test drive
;D