Re: [OMC-Boats] On the water again.

LOL, yeah, I've got some early 70s 16 mm movies of us pulling 8 skiers behind our '67 155 Reveler ala Cypress Gardens. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the right adapter to upload them!

We took our Reveler out for its first run of the season last Sunday (after a full week of crappy weather during our mandatory vacation). It was very difficult to start initially, probably close to 2 minutes of cranking (not continuous, of course) before I got fuel flowing through the jets. Once the fuel finally got there it started right up, but then seemed to take longer than usual to get the water flowing (stern drive in a garbage can filled with water. We took it to the lake anyhow and, once it warmed up completely, it ran like it was brand new. I finally got to compare the indicated speed with my GPS and found the indicated speed to be a fairly consistent 1 mph higher than the GPS speed. Somewhat surprisingly, this was true regardless of direction so there must've been little to no current and wind effect. Top end was about 34 mph indicated, 33 GPS. Cruised nicely at 30 mph with no apparent strain. This was with 3 people on board and 18" prop pitch.

Happy boating!

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: MOTiger@...
  To: omc-boats@...
  Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 5:36 PM
  Subject: Re: [OMC-Boats] On the water again.

  Just a thought, does anyone have videos to put up on youtube.com? Be great to have some out there. Paint

  In a message dated 7/10/2009 7:14:40 A.M. Central Daylight Time, todddixon@... writes:
    Well, after a few mechanical failures such as snapping a intermediate drive-shaft in half, its finally running strong. Took our '67 155 Reveler out yesterday for herr first full pleasure run, not just a mechanical try-out. Ran it up to about 4000 RPM, it ran beautiful. Temp. held at 160 without a problem.

    Thank everyone for their help and input with this project.

    Todd

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