that's locking down number 15. that's what's holding back curve length there
we're off this point smith with hearts okay this didn't happen very often got my bolts
and these are grade 8 so it's upgrade from that stainless shamrock here in fort smith arkansas
just pushed him across the counter said go on there's our river arkansas
do you think that's now that's fine a bunch of wing dykes out there we can pull in behind
any of those and that crop so we're getting ready to put the hunter stitch back together
and this is the problem these are the bolts i got from true value to to fix it the last time
and that's the bolt that should be in there see that just a lot more thread it's mainly just
because of the head they call that a one inch bolt but they're measured a little different
so got to watch that this one grabs a lot more threads and we're going to go ahead and replace
the bolts on the other side too still got the same thing quarter 20s there but we're gonna go up to
grade eight so next time if we do any damage well it won't be the bolt sharing it may uh
rip all the threads out and it won't be the bolt sharing
won't be stead drive shaft everything's back together with uh stronger bolts end
of a good day we got the hunter's dead back of the floor and it's running but it's not
pitching while the prop is turning and that may be because we have the pressure real low and
it didn't do that well before so we're gonna experiment with
it tomorrow and if we blow it up you know we're getting very very good at fixing it so
i think it'll be all right we would like to be able to put it in forward and then pitch it a
little harder or back the pitch off and it does it occasionally but we're only running it at like
120 psi so we're gonna bring it up slowly tomorrow and see if we can get it to work
she's 1500 rpm and that's about a 27 inch pitch i think that's what
she was designed for the blade's curve to that
we don't need to go that fast that cost a lot of fuel now i did that crazy thing where it unpitched
itself but it stayed in one piece and still worked after that so we got to figure out why
it unpitches itself every once in a while it didn't make any sense
it comes back to zero pitch really easy so it wants to do that so i don't know
i think what we're gonna do is every time somebody comes out to see me on the boat we're gonna take
it out for a little spin all right you get to drive the boat i get to watch the pitch and
if it breaks well you're here to row back we were actually trying to go further into this direction
140. all right so you've been maintaining a very economical speed 5.2 knot is actually fine we'll
get to the golf i won't spend a lot of money on fuel but let's mess with her because i i
want to see her go back to the zero pitch and i want to know why did we turn around we're going
back the way we came right yeah yep all right so watch the temperature we're at 550 and get
a little more throttle wow you can actually feel her all right let's see what that does
okay i got her to come back to zero on me on her own and it had to do with
having a lot of rpm yeah she won't pitch and she said idle all right let me go to neutral
now she's happy pitching give her a little pitch get her forward
so now we'll bring the pitch up bring the rpm up it's just going to be a skill we got to learn
we play all right no new ideas overnight but we're on another test run we got a
camera on it this time matthew's idea here is to watch the pressure when it starts acting up
maybe that will give us a glue so we have our alexa show out with a little
blink camera on it so the theory is maybe at a higher rpm it's cavitating in the pump and
losing pressure that would do it maybe we're starting out at 175 dsi
let's see if we can get it
yes
okay now we know it doesn't lose pressure
the hell is that moss
oh speed them
200 psi now that may not be the answer then i don't think it is anymore every day he comes out
here he gets a little closer to that wall you're messing with me now aren't you i am yeah look
at that turn right there but it's 34 feet right up onto the wall we could actually hit the mask
on the land first it would be a great shore to hide from a thunderstorm because they rolled
in from that direction get up there and slip a loop around one of those big trees
be protected from the wind by that bluff good spot a lot of deep water that way
so we went all the way across and back six and a half sometimes seven knots
no problem so we'll do that a few more times if we can do six
and a half we're good still probably going to tweak it somehow but i don't know how
oh there's nothing like a cold drink from an sp seeker thermal mug available
on amazon and also at thechestfoundation.org forward slash shop you buy from the seat chest
foundation some researcher in the future gets it you buy from amazon it's all about fuel
okay here's my thought on this the pressure is already a little over 250 it bounces around and
the max is 290 i really don't want to bring the pressure up anymore i don't think it's necessary
it's got this sticky thing though so this lever here goes back up with a push-pull cable to the
console up there that's how we pitch it from up above you know what it does it shifts that brass
ring you can see it just move ever so slightly but when i bring it back it kind of sticks and then i
push and it jumps a little bit more so maybe it's just a little too snug right there maybe i ought
to take the brass ring apart and shim it a little bit better than trying to remove that maybe that's
catching at a high rpm and then if it catches there it's going to possibly follow it all the way
and when i say follow what i mean it's when you move that brass ring
it starts dumping oil in on one side of the piston that moves the piston away
and so the brass ring goes back to not dumping oil in but if you keep pushing
that brass ring will follow away if it grabs it maybe it's pulling it along with it
it's a possibility so maybe i take it apart put some shims in it and that'll at least get it in
one direction because it's a you know 360. i can move two halves away from a little bit and give
it a little less grip maybe i get rid of that the other thing to do is to take it out put it onto
the mill and cut it a little bit larger because it's really just a couple of thousands larger than
the ring that it rides on the ring that rides on of course is spinning and it's stationary
that's kind of like a slip ring for hydraulics maybe that will do it but if you've got some ideas
let me know especially if you happen to have a hundred stead installed in your boat
i'd like to hear from you and if nothing else get out there in your shop
build something what'd you make today and send us the photos share that stuff it's inspirational
so
you