Would have loved to do that but the prop is stuck on and therefore I couldn't get a wrench over it... For the future I'll get some calipers but my crude method worked
thanks y'all. I was right it is a 1" shaft. When I went to the marine shop yesterday asked for a 1" shaft and measured it and it was the same as mine. Glad I figured this out as I had to swap the new prop I just bought for the correct one. The swap is happening first thing tomorrow morning and...
I have a 93 350 mercruiser ski mag with 1:1 velvet drive in 93 ski ray tournament boat. I'm getting my prop swap on Monday and just realized after I bought a new prop, it's for a 1 and 1/8" prop shaft. I thought that was standard for ski boats but then realized that they used 1" shafts back then...
Boat is a 1994 Ski ray tournament direct drive
Hi everyone, I wanted to start a new thread as my last one was about oil type. the motor was originally a 1994 350 ski mag but the block was replaced with a zz4 block (confirmed serial number). Before I sucked the oil out the dipstick showed being...
I hear you I'm 48. I will report back regarding if I can get it to surf or not when I get back. I am going to make a couple wake shapers as well. BTW I ended up going with Pennzoil Marine Plus 20w40
First of all, thanks for that. My family has had a cabin on a lake for over 100 years and I respect everyone. I only do watersports in bays that don't have any docks, cabins. Secondly, this is my first year with a ski boat and so my boys want to try skiing. Thirdly, if you know anything about...
I'm sure this has been beaten to death over the years but I haven't seen a consensus. New boat to me. only had it out once and now waiting for a prop replacement. I'll be using the boat to mostly wakeboard and trying to surf it. Lots of constant rpms and weighted down with ballast bags. So...
Yeah I'd like to try to save the prop as it's definitely repairable. I'm going to call my local marine mechanical shop and see if they can fit me in. Maybe they'll be able to get it off. The vibrations are bad enough that it was noticeable over 3k I believe. I didn't want to keep running it and...
So this is day two of this... loosened the nut sprayed some pb blaster in there. applied a lot of tenson on the C Clamp puller, heated the hub up for at least 5 mins, the prop fins were hot to touch, hit the back of the puller bow to stern multiple times with a framing hammer. It didn't move at...
I got a c clamp prop tool and will attempt to pull off the stock prop that's apparently been on there for 30 years. Should be a trip. I'm taking it into a shop on Friday and will probably get a new cnc prop at 13x11.5. I will report back once I've tried it out
the cutlass has no play and by eye last night there wasn't any shaft wobble. I did inspect the rudder this morning and it does seem to have quite a bit of play. That could be the source of the vibration. I wonder if I can get to it to grease it and or tighten it up.
Yeah for sure. We don't have a lot of prop shops around here but I have 2 dinged up stockers. Thinking I could fix both, sell one and keep one a spare and buy a new 13x13 CNC acme prop. I wonder what the performance difference between the old style vs the CNC?
