Well this is a game changer!!

[Redloon]

Very nice and a heck of a deal.

You definitely got the fever (boat fever that is).

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Thanks guys. I definitely stole her. I still feel a little bad about it. I'm worried karma's gonna bite me in the ***.

[THEFERMANATOR]

Those engines should be in the 110-120 range if memory serves me correctly. The 88-92 engines had idle reliefs, and caused them to have low cranking compression. The 93+ finger port engines normally have pretty high compression. Make certain to do a DEEP decarb on it. That is a MAJOR killer of the big V6 engines is carbon(that's how Bradford's engine ended up in my yard). When they get carboned up, they will stick a ring, and wipe out a sleeve, and most of the time hammer the head from the pieces going through it. Those are supposed to be a SOLID boat at anchor and drift because of the low 16 degree deadrise, but are said to beat you up running any speed in a chop. I started to buy one years back until I did some reading on them. Then again, if I had come across a deal like this one, it would have been in my yard too. Come spring time cleaned up, that boat would bring $4500-6000 all day long down here in Florida.

[wellcraftv20step]

Nice boat, I owned what looked like that very same hull on my coastal 236. I had the boat for about 11 years, it was an absolute tank, I think you'll be very pleased with it !!

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Originally Posted by wellcraftv20step

Nice boat, I owned what looked like that very same hull on my coastal 236. I had the boat for about 11 years, it was an absolute tank, I think you'll be very pleased with it !!

I have a buddy that said he owned the same boat and loved it. He's already tried to double my money.

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So now my mind is racing about this VRO deal. I got the part today to fix the pump. Put it on tonight but the kiddos were in bed and the boats right outside their window so I couldn't fire her up. But assuming all is normal, as it was when I first heard the boat run, I'm debating possibly ordering a brand new OEM fuel pump and running the oil tank again (tank was still in the boat). I got spoiled with my Yamaha not having to premix and love the idea of never having to deal with it. I've read the most probable cause of failure is neglect. Neglect to clean the tank and pickup regularly and neglect to check the warning system regularly. Well I'm the kind of guy that checks thru-hulls before every boat trip so adding a couple things to my check list is no problem at all.

Pumps are $369 shipped to the door (gone down a lot in the past few years). Seems replacing those say every 2-3 years is just cheap insurance when looking at boating $$ as a whole.

Also the boy I got it from said he's owned it 3 years and never decarbbed it so that may be a weekend project for me as well. Might clean the rings up a bit and get the compression a little closer to 100. Also when we did the comp check the motor was cold so that may help too, but my last JonnyRude (96 200) had 85psi across all 6 and ran like a champ, just a little weaker than 200hp I'm sure.

Once that's done after a quick lower unit fluid change hopefully she'll be ready to hit the water.

[THEFERMANATOR]

It's your money, but I'll NEVER trust a OMC type VRO oil injection. WAY to many of them EARNED the nickname very rarely oils. Just WAY to many problems, and places for things to fail in that system. And depending on how much wiring was cut to remove it, it may be a pain to hook it all back up. That's my $.02 on it. I know a FEW like the system, but when the fate of your engine rides on a jiggling oil plunger piston, NO THANK YOU!

[Striper80]

You can probably make something like I have for the cutout. It's hinged so you can trim the engine up.

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Originally Posted by Striper80

You can probably make something like I have for the cutout. It's hinged so you can trim the engine up.

Yea I've been trying to engineer something similar to that. My motor actually comes in over the floor actually but I can definitely make something along those lines.