okay it says it has a lot look for leaks
looking good so far okay putting the shift cable back in making a
few adjustments yet and there are no leaks so we're gonna get ready for a test here
i guess we need to go one behind that one too now that's a foreign pot so what we're doing putting
plywood in around the battery that'll keep sliding around on their tray nice to get some
little things ticked off the list all right one side done so what are you doing here doug this is
the transmission temperature so this is a o-ring boss to ntp and that was my mistake that pump down
there must be o-ring boss because the ntp fitting was leaking so now the adapter all right on on
now we gotta add that
so that fitting on the power steering pump was thinking it was sucking air in there
and it's working much better now
yeah that's a lot better so the shaft inside the hunter said tabs in right here into this
slot and as it moves it changes this blade's pitch and i want this blade
like that so i want it all the way forward all the way forwards where it's at forward
damn that's not what we wanted go ahead and check the transmission fluid once did
hey shut it down fuel off everything's up
okay well thank goodness i had it backwards so we were trying to put it into gear
with the blades in feathered position for sailing which means they're just pushing water wildly
so we can't do that now we learned something now we'll try and put in gear with the blades
turned so that they're you know not biting a lot of water yeah ready to start starting forward
oh
yeah start it again you know i hate to do this but
if we're going to break it let's break it here starting starting
so that was not neutral that was in gear but that's kind of cool because we know we can
start it in gear what what are you looking at i'm watching the boat rock back and forth
yeah because it was moving yes how much not much okay we're gonna go ahead and start it and we're
gonna give it a little more rpm and we're gonna try and put it into first gear with some rpm on it
let's just add 100 rpm to it whatever it is okay ready yeah starting starting
rpm up over
okay go back down to idle
all right so it does like that little bit of extra rpm start starting starting starting
all right here's the summary so if we have the engine idling and we put it in a forward it
lugs the engine kills it but if we give it like another 100 150 rpm put it forward it
does it and does it in reverse too so maybe it's cold the one thing i know is i don't have that
prop pitched flat because when he does put it in forward it starts moving the bow forward
and i know i adjusted it that way so i can take all that apart and adjust that out of it so that
it won't feather perfectly the way i want but it will go to almost nothing on the blade and
i think that's what i need to do because it'll have a little more drag maybe sailing but we'll be
able to start it without pushing water one way or the other and that's really what i'd like anyway
that way we can use the prop more for power so more playing around with it but i think it's
going to work fine of course i always think it's going to work fine i wouldn't be doing if i didn't
it's a beautiful sunny day and the critters are taking advantage of it
so this is the hydraulic control unit that pitches the blades and this is the coupler that joins
it to the shaft that goes out to the propeller and if i take this coupler off there's a shaft inside
here that moves inside of this one it actuates the blades okay i gotta roll the whole shaft
over but i don't want to scratch this internal one because it moves in and out of a gasket
this used to be really easy i just go out behind the boat and turn the propeller yeah it goes okay
i'm going to try and make an educated guess my blades right now are pitched about like that when
they're all the way this way whereas i want it to be like this because then when it turns it'll have
less drag on the drivetrain and maybe we can start the engine in idle so i know i got them set so
they go all the way back like this and i did that because i like them feathered like that but that's
beyond 90 degrees so i'm gonna have to suffer and sail with them feathered like that for sailing
we want the water to go by without much drag so i'm gonna have to kind of focus on this and just
eat this so they're about there right now and i need them to move
right there and that is three quarters of an inch so that's how much i need that shaft
to be pulled in hey that's easy because i just thread it in more yeah this is the shaft i'm
talking about this is the shaft that moves in and out and right now it's forward but i
can thread it in some more see i got more threads there maybe not three quarters of an inch yeah i
think i got three quarters of an inch there i can thread it in more and that will pull that blade
more in line like this so see it tightens on so i need to rotate this part that way by turning here
wow that's easier than i thought okay let's get a measurement on it
one two three four threads showing and they
take up three eighths of an inch about nine turns we'll have about three quarters of an inch
three
five five seven nine okay now we gotta make sure the key ways are lined up okay this
shaft is not easy to turn i'm gonna take this one to match which is easy to do that should do
and they might magically be in the right place first time nope but maybe i turned the shaft on
this side let that one fall in oh that's close all right that might be it a bit of gentle persuasion
take a look at the back side of it now ain't sitting on the key it's got a gap there
try it love tap oh that went down okay take a look again
oh yeah i think that's on there get this on every time i do this it gets easier
well frankly i don't think that's going to help as much with the starting because there's so much
friction i know now in the drive shaft going out through the cutlass bearing in the back
but i don't think having the blades pitched just a little less
is going to matter that much because that's just water but i needed those blades pitched
like that anyway so there you got the one thing done and maybe it's just enough let's find out
so i'm showing about 540 rpm here we go forward
it worked and we're barely moving we are moving a little forward baby yeah definitely dirty yeah and
no prop wash hey i like this neutral don't take long to stop and reverse hey what a nice surprise
yeah and again we're not really moving i see a little prop wash but it's not really directional
like water is getting stirred a little bit but not much slack on that line taunt on that one
all right we'll have to do some more testing let's try pitching the blade neutral forward
yeah it worked again and let's give it some pitch and we should want to move forward
yes yeah we're pulling forward now okay so we'll take the pitch off the blade
put it back into neutral go reverse pitch the blade again
yep she's backing up all right unpitch the blade back to neutral
cool all right well it worked and i didn't think it would every once in a while the boat gods are
with you so i'll take that i'm not going to take it out and run it until brandon's here
or charlie or somebody that knows how to run the boat is along with me i'm not going to do
that by myself not that kind of courage yet but i'm getting there hey what'd you make today to
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