73 Mustang prop shaft questions

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Sorry about that. I should learn to check my links.

https://imgur.com/a/02t3h

I miss when photobucket didn't charge and it was easy to link my pictures directly to the forum. I'll just have to change and get used to a new method. Anyways, thanks for the compliment, I agree the new thermostat setup is way better and I like that the hose that goes to the recirculating water pump isn't collapsing anymore due to restriction. Between the transmission cooler being slightly clogged and the fact that all of the water went straight from the raw water pump to the transmission cooler to the recirculating pump and then just exited the motor to the exhaust since the previous setup wasn't running a thermostat. This isn't factory for my boat, but it is factory style for a newer one so I'm happy with that.

As for the fuel, I was using the plastic inline filter as my reference. When I first got the boat, you could see the gas pumping into the filter fairly quickly and it would fill it up, but once I started having issue, it was barely coming into the filter and most of it was air. Also, when the issue first arrose, if I let the boat idle, it would fill the filter up and carb I assume, so the boat would run fine for 20-30 seconds but then would start to stall like it's running out of fuel. I of course popped the cover and could watch the clear filter go from being full to empty. I have since removed the filters and it's still running out of fuel.

But for testing purposes, I do plan to grab one of my good 1406's and install it on the boat to rule out carb issues. I wish I had the factory carb or something similar to put on there, but they are out of my price range for now. And the boating season only has about a month left, so I'm just trying to make everything last until then when I will start redoing a lot of the boat. Hopefully this weekend I'll pull the boat out and do more driveway testing and swapping things around to see if the condition improves or not. I need to get my fuel pressure gauge from storage, where most of my tools are at the moment, so working on the boat has been hindered from that.

Also, the teak wood is looking a lot better now that I've started applying teak oil to it.


I agree, the carter pumps don't look to be the best of quality. I plan to take my old one apart and see how it looks internally.   

I forgot to mention that I did rebuild the 1409, I cleaned all of the passages and the 2 screens. I also installed new needles/seats and new gaskets everywhere. The only thing I'm not positive on is if the floats are set perfect since the motor does have an angle and I tried to compensate some for that. I am running a 5 degree wedge but it needs to be more like 10 or so to put the carb close to level.