How do you identify year model

8122pbrainard wrote: And I'll jump in as the superintendent! Bob, no shortage of help from this group!! Besides, I'm looking for 1200 S.F. of heart pine salvaged flooring!! (resawn/milled)

I'll let you know when it's ready!

You got the job. But i was kinda hard on partners...had the last one for about 8 years...no-one else wanted to work with me. Guess I was kinda a*al about my worksite and had a bad habit of continually cleaning my tools. This tells you all you need to know...I HAD to clean all the windows in the truck..every day..before I left the garage. I used to drive my foremen crazy. ALWAYS the slowest guy in the crew. But guess whose jobs never got go-backs?

john

Greg...any chance you'll need a helper?

john

Buffalo where did you obtain the fir? I can get you heart pine. Matter of fact I am demolishing 5 houses on Jackson street, between decatur street, and edgewood downtown on monday. I have one structure that was built circa 1900 I am lacking a permit for it.I will go through and see if it's got any good wood in it.I also on occasion get rough cut lumber from old houses, and barns some close to gainesville. I have a turn of the century house in Alpharetta on hold for demolition(been on hold a year)I did one in Alpharetta For former falcons receiver Micheal Haynes that had been built in 1875, it had some good looking lumber in it, I never seem to find any takers when I have the stuff, and if I save it and store it I always end up throwing it away.I find alot of cool stuff, including old Ski Nautiques, art ,rare antiques, and tools

Bob welcome to the site but you have to stop with the vaccum advanced stuff when you are talking about ditributors because boats don't use them on there distributors so if you see a boat that has one then it's been replaces with a non-marine unit. Oh and you really don't need to preach about the importance of advance profiles and where they need to be as I work for DELCO-REMY's ignition group for several years, and have names like Ilmore Chevy Indy V8, Northstart, and Quad4 for engine platforms in my resume. So try and help out the guys buying the DUI stuff they just don't want to listen to me and do there own thing.

BKH, don't let anyone know but I got my eye on a 2double01 down here..

BKH, do you want to upgrade your boat like the decal I give you...

I heard good prices on the 09's.

I always wanted to catch a BIG FISH!!

The Godfather wrote: Hello Bobzilla, well you asked.. Your boat was built on 2/09/1967. The engine serial number is 105352, 210 Chrysler. I hope this will help you. Join the club now you owe me..

Do I need to put some concrete shoes on somebody LOL? Thank you Godfather I'm glad to be a member of the "family" and that is the serial number on the tag. I am pretty good at dating houses that I tear down, even when property taxes say otherwise. I thought like I said before that it was a 66-69 by looking at the engine and the sales brochures.The boat is light blue/maybe turquoise on top with a white hull.I was thinking of making it red/white or yellow/white. what colors were available from the factory? I want to keep it as original as possible.the picture links are right on except the Correct Craft script at the rear on the sides of the hull are missing(no holes either) and the transom has nothing on it.the only thing that told me it was a Correct craft was the ski Nautique script on the dash.

"Someday, and that day may never come, I'll call upon you to do a service for me." Don Corleone, the Godfather.

BKH

Hello Bobzilla, well you asked..
Your boat was built on 2/09/1967.

The engine serial number is 105352, 210 Chrysler. I hope this will help you.

Join the club now you owe me..

Bob Buffalo has been chasing the problem for a while now on is fresh rebuild so it's a little fustrating to him and it's funning you mention the curve profile, sounds like something I said some time ago on the Topic.

But Dave aka The GodFather is our resident inside man at Correct Craft for all of us Fans of these great boats so try and track down the ID tag on the stringer and post the Info and he will have more information than you could ever ask for as he is the GODFATHER OF CC .

post some picture too if you can that will narrow it down some as a lot here have a pretty good eye for detail and it won't tak but a few hours to figure out exactly what you have.

Thanks guy's I appreciate all the help. Buffalo run that 454's balancer around till the line on the balancer lines uo with the 0 mark on the timing marker. Verify that both of the #1 valves are closed(take off the right side valve cover if you are looking at the engine from the front)this will let you look at the rockers to verify.Then remove the cap and make sure that the rotor is pointing in close proximity to the #1 plug wire in the distributor.If all of this is correct take a dial up timing light (you can dial in the advance)dissconnect the vacuum advance if any, and rev the engine to 2500 RPM. Set the timing to 36 degrees total timing at 2500 RPM, this should give you around 1o-12 degrees advance at idle.Make sure when you rev the engine that all timing(centrifigul advance)is in around 2,000-2,500. The first steps should verify cam timing without degreeing. You can buy keys to advance the crank gear forward or back about 4 degrees if neccesary. With a low vacuum reading at idle you either have too much duration(high rpm cam such as l88 427 cam).Do you know what the cam specs are?I tuned a 70 chevelle for a friend last week that had been cloned into an ss454. He had the l88 cam and would pull 12 hg at idle I set the total timing to 38 degrees(some engines will take this with out pinging) I set his holley carb idle screws to maximum vacuum and the vacuum came up to about 17.I then set the idle down to 750, which lowered vacuum of course.I would recommend buying a mr gasket advance curve kit, reuse your old weights(they are better than the mr gasket weights and install one light and one medium spring(you can experiment with these).this combination of springs should give you a good advance curve out of the box. I am used to tuning cars but I would imagine boats are the same. we all want low end torque on the street and I would imagine a boat would be the same, I have had outboards and I have built them and tuned them, but I wasn't as knowledgeable back then.If your cam timing is off you should be able to compensate at the distributor(moving one tooth advanced or retarded.I am more than happy to swap info, I am not a woodworker, but I am fixin to be one.I figured that with a name like Godfather I was going to get information I couldn't refuse LOL.I am here to help guys and believe me I will ask for help. I learn something new everyday.Try my idea Buffalo and let me know how it comes out.Is there any water in Lanier, I was on the lake in marck demolishing a house up off of 369(down some side streets) and the water looked to be about 15' down. Allatoona is down a little right now but It seemed that they slowed the outflow down and had a pretty good pool this summer, the worst summer level I ever saw on allatoona was the summer of 86 , 88 got kinda low too.

79nautique wrote: By chance did you use a degree wheel to degree the cam correctly on the install?

I didn't, but that's next. I should've asked in the first place because the indicator marks are different on this gear set.

I'm stomping all over this guy's thread...I'll start a new 1 when I feel like messing with it again. Last time I took it apart on the water; what a PITA. It's running well enough to ride this w/e, and then it'll have to come out anyway.

79nautique wrote: you still haven't got the timing light out, come on get on the ball.

I've had the timing light out many times...along with the vacuum gauge, comp tester, and volt meter. Everywhere I've looked says that low, steady vacuum indicates a leak at the intake, ignition problem, or late valve timing. I believe I eliminated the 1st two.

LOL Tim!

I'd be more than happy to help with your stringer project, please ask whatever. Bob, maybe you could help me with my late ignition timing on my 454?