81 v20 cc ..... and HOWDY

[smokeonthewater]

Hey folks.... I've been looking at this welly cc on craigslist for weeks and telling everyone I could about it but nobody was biting....The fellow was selling his trailer and giving away the boat. Well I'd held off as long as I could and I couldn't stand it any more so I sent off an email... A few days later I borrowed a trailer from a friend and brought her home. He had replaced the stringers and the deck 5 years ago (did an excellent job btw) and discovered that his engine was toast.... He brought it from ME to IN and it has a faint outline of FL numbers on it so it's traveled a bit.

She is missing lots of hardware, the tackle center, back panel of the console, and the bilge access panel along and a few other odds n ends. She has no wiring or instruments whatsoever when but does have the cc and a windshield along with all the hatches...

In the same week I found an 80's 16' viking with MAJOR rot on a trailer with a 75 merc 115 tower o power and a CMC tilt n trim unit... Bought the whole rig for $70!

Had not run in many years and the spark plugs were out for years! YIKES... engine wasn't seized tho so I sprayed some penetrating oil in the cylinders and put the old crusty plugs in. I cranked it over for a minute (15 seconds at a time) and pulled the plugs to do a compression test... ranged from 135-156... not stellar but fair and I suspect that it'll even out and improve a bit with some run time..... So a few hours later I had her running on the old nasty gas that came in it! Shut it down replaced the impeller and mixed up a gallon of fresh gas.... I've run it on the hose for close to an hour now and she fires right up and purrs like a kitten. Someone butchered the transom clamp brackets on the engine tho so I need to find some good ones to swap in later... I now have the CMC and the engine hanging on the V20 and have the cables rigged but I need to find top mount controls.... gave a real nice set away a year ago... dangit

Sooo with fuel figured in I now have about $200 in it and will be selling the trailer from the viking soon.... Anything over $200 puts me at a negative cost!

I'm not expecting any speed records with the 115 but I think she'll do well enough for use here on the ohio river


I have a couple gazillion posts on iboats.com with the same username but the fellow who gave me the cc told me about this site so here I am.... gobs of good info here btw
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