Disaster Strikes

Hey Adam,

I'm happy to hear that you're on the road to getting your boat fixed. When I had my accident, I was without my boat for a good month. My hull scratches were repaired and buffed up, two fins replaced, new shaft, new prop and engine re-aligned. You would never know anything ever happened to it. These boats can take a lickn'.

Keep us posted on the progress of your repairs. Can you go boating with anyone else in the meantime?

Ken

Sorry, I'm playing some catch up here with your post. I'm glad to hear you got your boat back. I remember launching mine for the first time since my mishap. I was a little nervous, but it made me more aware of my surroundings. Enjoy!

Ken

carb cleaner won't hurt anything other than paint, gaskets are not effected.

your not going to be able to open them up without a vacuum pump on the diaphram when your setting with it off you really need to be under way with the hatch up and arrestor off to watch them and see if they are opening, if they are not then you need to replace the diaphram for the secondaries, might check the rubber hose going to it as well if it has one forget exactly how it's plumbed.

Adam,

The secondaries won't actually open until you get close to or at WOT and then only underway as Chris stated. Revving it in your driveway will never get them to open.

I would have to agree that if the secondaries aren't working, the vacuum diaphram should be looked at and possibly replaced. I seem to remember something about a small ball bearing in the vacuum port that needs to be there too when you remove the diaphram cover plate so be careful with that. Don't loose it. Just so you know, the diaphram can be a little tricky to get back in properly without tearing it when you put the cover screws back in place. Somewhat common issue for those a little bit inexperienced in the reassembly process. Certainly not difficult, but something to pay attention to.

If you have a vacuum pump you can check the the diaphram to see if it's working. Then the secondary throttle plate can be operated to at least verify if they're froze or not. I highly doubt that they're froze. If anything, the vacuum port or diaphram is boogered up causing the issue. Man, it's been too long since I took one of these things apart!!! Someone more knowledgable could certainly correct me on this stuff.

Well guys,

Disaster struck here in Belgium yesterday at 10.46 AM too...
While pulling a skier on our lake, making a turn at some 200 yards from the shoreline... BANG!
I hit an unmarked pile of rubble in the water! Result: busted prop, bent shaft...
On the lucky side: no hull damage nor bent strut and rudder still fine... (I checked closely to see if there were any cracks to be found at the strut and rudder)
All damages and repairs are covered by the insurance, so that's a good thing too.
So, today, I will bring her to the CC dealer here in Belgium and will have to wait till all paperwork, expertise and fixing is done...
Will ask CC dealer to check everything closely and put her back to glory (also have him check tranny, engine, alignment,...).

The thing is... timing couldn't be worse! Weather is gonna be super for the next couple of weeks and on top of that, our club is preparing for our annual ski show

As I was telling my story to fellow boaters here in the harbor, I was surpised to hear a few others had had the same thing in that area. With some 15 fellow boat owners we went to the harbor master yesterday evening, to ask him to take action (one could notice that these guys were fed up with the lack of action on the part of the responsible instances). So, tuesday and wednesday, the harbor master and a few boaters equipped with dept finders will put temporary buoys on the lake in order to prevent these things to happen again...
The harbor master will also send a request to the governmental instances responsible for the lake, to schedule dredging of the shallow areas.

azeus17 wrote: No one was hurt?

We are very fortunate no one got hurt! But, as we slowed down and stopped, the skier went down in the water and right on the spot were the boat took the hit, he was standing on his skis in like one and a half foot of water...

Glad all is fixed! I just got a premium from progressive, and noticed they reduced my cost 25% and said something about it going down 25% a year for another year or two if I dont have a claim. Then after that I get some reduction in deductible or something like that. In any case, I dont think you will be getting that letter next year!

QUOTE "He had six hours of labor charged for the insurance repair. I asked him to bump that to nine hours to cover the cost of the extra items that I was having them do for me out of my pocket. I knew I could get the ins. co. to pick up a little more."

I would ask to have this deleted. I believe this is what you call insurance fraud and I doubt Woody would want this to be publicized.