The girlfriends early christmas present!

My steal of the year award goes to the crb1000dude with the sweet blue color 1990 SN with a new interior or dual axle trailer for the same price.. but I digress.
As for the knocking.. and smashed electrode.. could be anything from sticky valves to a piece of piston that might now be welded/smashed into something (head or piston) and banging or it could have passed. If you have any compression problems… just with that cylinder even if minor you are likely living on borrowed time and should tear down and inspect. Not priming the oil system before starting might be a root cause, as could have been some rust in the cylinder walls catching a ring and applying trauma to the piston.   If it has good compression I would run it at idle on a hose for a while and see if it gets better… you might get a few years of use out of her without rebuild even with a smashed up cylinder.
Without the smashed electrode I would be thinking you burned out a rod bearing with the high revving low oil intial startup but you would have had to spin it to smash an electrode and that would cause some very noticeable oil pressure symptoms.

I always hope for the stuck lifter myself.. but the smashed electrode cant be explained by it... is suppose it could have contributed to valve float at high rpms but you are reaching. Every time I smashed me an electrode eventually on tear down I end up saying ohh thats how that happened. Although sometimes that teardown has been after much usage between electrode smushing incident...

the plug probably came out of the box like that.boat ran like crap atfer their "mechanic"tuned it up and the PO got discouraged and parked it.you may still get lucky.most boats i buy are from discouraged people,they are my favorite kind of seller.

Hey Joe - Welcome aboard! If you got that boat in Webster from a guy named Craig, it definitely sat but he used it a lot in the summers before that and I assume he took decent care of it. Good luck with the work, there are bunch of us local to you if need an extra set of hands and you will get anything you need from the site - that's for sure.

-Greg

Well, for those guys in NH, this boat is the old "kabeyun-andy" from Camp Kayebun in Alton NH. After being traded into NECC by the camp in rough shape from all its years on Winnipesaukee, it found a home up in Ossipee NH, where it was once again run hard. The past owner only changed the oil in the engine and tranny and ran it for a few more years until it was parked literally in the woods. It offered the mice and moss a good home.

I took a gamble with past owner saying "the engine runs great! you wont have a single issue with it!" Let me remind you that it was last registered in 05, had the manifold wide open and was sitting uncovered all those years.. Yeah buddy.. sure!

Did a compression test a few days ago and its showing a constant 100-110 on all cylinders except #8 which is at 140. This was on a COLD engine. For an engine with 2100 hours its tired. So, I'm changing directions on this project and am going to pull the 351 sometime this winter and rebuild it.

The saga will continue with this old girl, but here are those pictures of the "runner up deal of the year". The interior is already stored for the winter in these pictures. FYI I did get a barefoot boom with it too!

bbishop1974 wrote: thanks for the pics joe.hows the gel coat?cracks,damage etc.it still looks like a good start to me

The gelcoat is still in good shape. It needs a buffing, but everything should come back nicely. There are a couple little nicks on the lower transom, but its just cosmetic. The hull is in great shape. No signs of damage, other than a few scratches here and there.

Joe, you said you want to drive it once before rebuild, but also that you want to pull the engine this winter for rebuild. Are you going to put on mittens and drop it in Winnipesaukee for a quick run? Otherwise you better trailer it south!

NHNautique wrote: Crisis adverted! Found a couple acorns down there too. Gotta keep it simple sometimes.

HEY!   A squirrel has gotta eat too. Just never heard anyone admitting to actually feeding them!    

Seems like enough compression for general boating. I don't think the float test is going to tell you too much, you've got an engine cradle go ahead and run it!

Definitly launch if you can and go for a rip.it will give you all winter to prioritize a to do list.taking my 86' on that one end of the year run was the best and worst thing idid.i loved the boat so much it went from bottom of the to do list to the top.interior walls in your living room are overrated anyways,the bucket under the leaking bathtub can stay another year or so etc.etc.etc.