Swedish Ski Nautique 1969

I would carefully stone it to remove anything riding higher than the surface then I would run it and forget about it. Use a couple pieces of hose over. Those rod bolts to prevent doing it again on the other ones. I use relatively long hoses to help guide the rod.

Glad to see your having a blast with your boat! I love the Vette also!

shierh wrote: you will have to get the crank machined and get new bearings for it..

He didn't have to, and he won't it is perfectly acceptable to use an appropriate stone in that situation to debur and go on with life. It will have no negative effect what so ever on that bearing life.

i replied on this not seeing second page so missed that he had already done it.
Didnt know that cc used glass no core stringers on some older models.   wonder y they started using a core?   My 1967 hatteras had glass stringers, no wood and not core in hull.   built like a tank and thats y she is still riding proud at 48 years old.   

shierh wrote: i Didnt know that cc used glass no core stringers on some older models.   wonder y they started using a core?   My 1967 hatteras had glass stringers, no wood and not core in hull.   built like a tank and thats y she is still riding proud at 48 years old.

As Gary stated, CC didn't back then. The stringer replacement is discussed in the thread. It's interesting use of pultruded glass structural members.

A Vette...Stars & Stripes on the wall...if it weren't for the license plate it looks like an American garage. .

Good work, Axel!

Hey everyone!

So last season was a bust due to transmission slipping and despite flushing it and changing fluid it wouldn't get better. During the winter I rebuilt the entire transmission changing clutch discs, bearings and gaskets and installet the trans back into the boat.

Test drove the trans this weekend and the problem somehow remained exactly the same which is extreamly strange considering all my work on it.
Symptoms include:
- Transmission slipping when warm
- Oil cooler lines hot on one side but completely cold on the other side. Entire outside of the cooler is sea cool.
- Trans case gets hot quickly.

As it's the only thing I havn't checked I'm starting to think that the trans cooler/lines are blocked/not flowing enough, anyone had that problem? Any other thoughts? Eveything in the tranmission looked good, I cleaned everything etc.

I will take the cooler out and check that it's not blocked and I guess that the next step after is to monitor the transmission oil pressure which I'll try to do next weekend. Does anyone here know what threads/size the main pressure line tap is so I can get the correct adapter/gauge?

Thanks
/ Axel

Best to put a pressure gauge in the NPT pipe port and see what it says.

think its NPT 1/4" pipe, if not 1/8" pipe, have both. There is a port each for pump, fwd and rev, and they are not all the same size.

I leave a gauge on mine all the time.

If the pressure is high, could be an indicator of restricted flow. Low, could be bad pump. The best picture would be to sample all conditions.

Yes, a 47 year old pump is always suspect. Best check the pressures.