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*UPDATE* Seems like the economical RPM is between 2200RPM and 2300RPM which is between 17 and 18 MPH. As long as you bring her up and then throttle back down to the above stated she stays up on plane. I went out the other day and ran 26 miles and burned 12 gallons of diesel. Those number are not bad...

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I have the 45a's in my B28. I am only running 150HP Cumins 4BT's. I think the 240HP you are running would be maxing the rating on the zf45a's.

Double check the specs. The 45a's sure are light though. I installed them by myself by hand with not too much effort.

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The wind was howling a bit at 6:30am and gusty from time to time. I am 3 miles inland and know that its usually a lot worse on the water. Brewster how bad was it out there? I was supposed to be fishing Montauk today had to settle for Bay fishing yesterday near the big meadowbrook. I DID eat fresh St...

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I would have considered it, if it was my home territory. I have always liked to take a peek but not so far from home.

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Decided to cancel the trip, too bad I was really looking forward to it. I did not think it was wise to drive 100 miles to fish on Monday knowing that this was the forecast. We were going to even maybe go on the inside and thru the locks but still decided against it. Oh well I will have to wait and d...

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The way Peter described the tank as a "T" shape , that sounds very much the same as the tank I installed that was from Moeller. The 157 gallon poly tank.

You should check the dimensions it may be a good match for your boat.

I paid $850

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I bought a Poly tank made by Moeller. It is made pretty beefy and I have no complaints but this is also my 1st season with it.

They offer many sizes and configurations and you would need to find one that will fit your application.

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Looks like the Hurricane IGOR guy is potentially going to mess my trip up! Sept 19 thru 21. I would prob be concerned about rough conditions coming back, I guess we will have to wait and see. BTW Walter thanks for the info for Montauk, I spoke to Marie and its all set. I am still waiting to see what...

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That may sound like a plan! Not sure if I would slow you down though, I cruise @ 21MPH.

I will get in touch with you next week to see if its a go, I am 95% just have to square a couple off loose ends away.

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I have done some calculating and if I go out of Fire Island inlet it is 107 miles (93 nautical miles as per MaxSea program). That is leaving from where my boat is docked in East Massapequa rt next to Ketchum ave (Amityville). I have not done an accurate fuel consumption calculation on my boat. I am ...

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I love that show. I want my father to run his 49 Olds Coupe on that show. I see so many cars with crazy HP and they run good but I think the Olds is a hard car to predict an ET. He has an original 454 LS6 from a 70 chevelle (he has had the motor for 39 years) in it and its ALL motor BONE STOCK (moto...

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I am in Massapequa and thinking about going to Montauk for a couple of days in late September.

I was thinking about going right out of Jones Inlet and taking the outside the whole way. Any pro's or con's?

Obviously the weather but any suggestions?

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Thanks for the reply guys.

Bob I would love to give you a hand but I am pretty booked up until next week at the earliest.

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It was from the Lucas-Cav Injection pump. I am up and running and I checked as well as I could without pulling the head. No obvious bent valves, I measured the height with rockers removed and all of them sat as close to identical as could be measured. I had no acess to air so I did not pressurize th...

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A lucky stab with the magnet into my oil pan retrieved this woodruff key that ran through my front gears inside the timing cover. The next time you read through your cummins books and it says "be careful........catastrophic engine damage will.......yada yada yada...! Well now you are seeing the resu...

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OK we are now up and running again. The wooden dowels worked great. When I was putting the cam in the thrust plate fell off and went bloop into the oil passage and right into the pan. Something like that is just my luck, I was able to retrieve it with my trusty magnet. Engine fired right up. I unfor...

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Anything on the inside, east of Jones Inlet is getting scary....

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The reason the 4BT's have more room is because I am using ZF down angle transmissions. They take up so much less room than the velvet drives.

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The v8's were tight when I had them. These 4BT's have so much room in front but not enough for the camshaft. I do have about 1 foot of clearance to the bulkhead up front. What makes it worse is I have to make the hole big enough for the cam gear as well which has to be like 7 or 8 inches diameter. O...

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Thanks guys i will keep you posted I got the CAM just need to find some time to bang it out.

I unfortunately need to cut a hole in the bulkhead to install the cam. It will be going thru the head (bathroom wall). Just what my boat needs another hole.

I am going to take my time on this one.

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Looks like I am going to hold the lifters up with wooden pegs that get lightly tapped into them from above.

Then cam gets removed / installed while pegs are held up by rubberbands.

The procedure is ACTUALLY in the Cummins manual.
still waiting on cam

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Its the Port engine gonna be a bastard no matter what. The idea was from the diesel mechanic from the place I work on the side. He said if the valve heights are all the same then its worth a try to replace cam and keep fingers crossed. I also threw that idea around with a few other mechanics and the...

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Thanks Harry and Bob I was hoping I would wake up today and find out it was yesterday and have a chance to do it all again! LOL oh well! I removed all the push rods and they are OK. I measured the valve spring heights in the seated position and they are all the same so there is a chance I did not be...

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After a closer inspection since I now have the front cover off I found the woodruff key for the IP is missing. I cant believe it, I had made sure it was in and had not fallen out but I must not have double checked from the inspection cover after it was in. I am SURE that stupid key got in the gears ...

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Thanks I am pretty sure the pump was flush and all nuts were tight. I will double check. I was careful to not disturb anything. I am really shaking my head on this one. Just does not make any sense. What a mess! Looks like I am going to have to put a hole in the bulkhead to allow access to remove ca...

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Can valves be checked without removing the head?

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Bruce,

You mean a "woodruff key", off one of the gears, I am not sure what you are talking about.

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And by the way this engine has LESS THAN 2hours on it! The CAM is brand new OEM from cummins $500 some-odd dollars later! This broke at the 1st journal, I am hoping this is some kind of bad casting. I did not pull the rest of the camshaft out. I did loosen the push rods and was able to turn the cam ...

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Not a happy camper today! I just instaaled my injector pump after getting a leak repaired. I bled the system and fired her up. NO problem. I then played with the idle adjustment to get the idle to 650 and then I after about 3 or 4 minutes of running I heard "pop" and she stalled. I cranked to start ...

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Are the shaft logs bad, or do you just want new ones?

I installed PSS this spring as well and did not replace the logs. "If it aint broke....."

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I have my furuno GPS working and even though its an older unit I want to use it for a while. It has Navionics and would like to put an updated Navionics chart in it. Will this unit take a newer chip? The one that is in there is from like 2002 or around there when I bought it. I bench tested it and i...

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Those symptoms CAN be from the damper / flex plate / coupling / drive plate.....whatever you want to call it. Those are the symptoms they warn you about if you dont use the recommended drive plate. When you pull the unit check the spline are to see if it is beat up on the drive plate. My transmissio...

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This overhaul kit is $335 I would think a fair price to rebuild would be $1000 total. A pro could rebuild it in a few hours. The unit need to be brought to him. http://www.halemarine.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=25&products_id=2474 What is wrong with your transmission? Is it something ...

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I would get a second opinion. What does he want for a new unit? http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vGdY9AKoKmkJ:www.halemarine.com/index.php%3Fmain_page%3Dproduct_info%26cPath%3D5_22%26products_id%3D3152+zf63a+rebuild+kit&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us that should give you some sort of a...

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You really cannot beat the availability of spare parts for the cummins OEM and NON-OEM.

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That is sad indeed! Much too young is an understatement. I remember seeing that thread, this man had some talent and hopefully somebody will finish his 31 with the same passion as he obviously had.

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You just bought this boat right?

Looking great so far, Looks like you are doing it right as well, looks like a winner.

What is going to power her?

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At the very least you want FULL advance before you reach you cruising RPM. I am a little rusty but I am pretty sure you should be getting just over 30 degrees at FULL advance. Maybe even 33degrees IIRC.

Timing is very critical and make sure it is working properly.

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What a beauty! (ALL 3!.... LOL !!!)

The Girl, the Boat and the Fish!

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Do you have a timing light that has dial for setting the timing? If I recall correctly I had my timing set at about 12 degrees base timing and then when the engines were revved up the timing went to about 30 degrees, my numbers may be a degree or 2 off as I have not messed with then in a number of y...

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Your can and probably should hard pipe your fuel shut-offs right to the fuel manifold. Skipper dick shows a pair of nice and small shut-offs but the ones you have can be installed just the same. Consider putting a 90 degree brass pipe elbow right at the manifold directing the flow in the basic direc...

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I had 5.7's in my B28 and 10GPH @2800-2850 is pretty on the money. Having a Ding in a prop or being out of alignment can surely cause a difference in fuel consumption. Flow Scans can pick that up, but they will not diagnose the problem. They will only tell you if the problem is resolved or not. Chec...

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Now you know the gauges are working properly. It is time to run the engines and cruise and then keep an eye on what they do. If one gets hot, shut it down, if not then see how close they are at operating temperature. If they are close run the boat at an upper RPM to see if they stay close to each ot...

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Definitely check thermostat with an IR gun (Harbor Freight $30 or so) and point red dot on the brass sending unit on the engine block. You have to start there before anything else, then you will know what the ACTUAL numbers are. Ruling out bad sender, bad gauge etc... If the numbers jive with gauge ...

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The image has to be hosted online somewhere (like photobucket). If you already did that and it is not showing up, I dont know then.
sry

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Well that sucks BUT if what was posted is true and it was discussed at the Captains meeting they are SOL! If you are tournament fishermen than it is INEXCUSABLE to have something like this happen. Furthermore to then buy the license after the fact I dont know if that helps their case or hurts it. If...

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Very nice, that is a great boat with the Cummins in there!

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I am running 3-1/2 exhaust. I used my old original mufflers which are basically blown out and offering virtually no backpressure. It is a little noisy and shaky at idle but I just have to get the kinks out and decide a less shaket idle rpm. I would have to say the boat is no louder than when I had t...

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sounds like a good day!

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Here is a quick video but it is not all that great, was into the wind a little bit and the boat is actually performing slightly better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idJX4uZP5u8

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