71 CC Mustang Ride

Bad karma from sitting on the seatback while underway.

Gotta love a brass gear pump for that

Big t wrote: Gotta love a brass gear pump for that

Tony,
Yup, thankfully we don't have to put up with all the problems of a brass gear pump anymore. The marinizers were phasing them out in the late 30's early 40's. Did you think the 71 had a brass gear pump?

I did run into the problem when I rebuild this 27 Universal. The gears and housing were so worn that there was no chance of it working even if I packed a pound of grease in it. Thankfully I was able to locate a NOS gear pump and modify the mount to make it work.

Tony,
Is your Universal the Unimite in the still unknown CC outboard hull that is an inboard? What year is the Unimite? How many hours have you put in on it?

It's interesting your opinion on gear pumps VS: rubber impeller. I remember back in the late 60's when I was at Watercraft, we were actually converting the old gears to rubber. The priming of the gear was and still is the problem especially when worn beyond the .0005" gear to housing clearance. There's a reason they put the grease cups on those pumps!! Many would forget to use them or not know they were supposed to. Then there was always the problem of running out of grease when you wanted to use the boat!!

Since my joining the ACBS in the late 70's, I have never heard one person endorse a gear pump. In fact, we've had tech seminars that included "how to's" on converting them to rubber. I believe I asked once but never got an answer. Are you an ACBS member?

BTW, my model B got a new rubber impeller when I rebuilt the engine in the late 70's and then the second one just a year ago before I hauled it to the GL reunion. I have NEVER had a cooling problem with it. Were you running it dry? If so, that will trash the rubber impeller within minutes. What boat is your B in?

Big t wrote: I am not a member of the acbs the rubber impeler would not self prime even after a new impeller that was in a 1951 chris craft 16 foot utility. I also hade a second one in a 1930's Chris modle 300 that was thesame way so it got a gear pump as well. The universal shows 500 houres when the tach cable broke my best estamet is around 1000 houres

Why not an ACBS member? It sounds like with your boats and background you'd fit in real well! Have you ever been involved? Have you ever looked into the association? How familiar are you with the ACBS and your local chapter?

If you had priming problems after installing a new rubber impeller, then you had other problems other than the impeller.

All we've seen are some pictures of your "yet to be determined what it is" CC. How about some picture of your other boats?

Tony,
Great to hear your intention's! now, we need to work on your horrible spelling! Doesn't your computer have any means of spell checking?

74Wind wrote: I always wonder why you-tubers feel compelled to overdub with music when all we really wanna hear is the roar of an inboard engine

Exactly what I was thinking when I watched it!