79nautique

Hey, maybe we can take this thread headed in a different, reverse direction, but not meaning to go backwards and rehash. But I don't know of many older inboard mfrs., i.e., Chris Craft, Century, Hickins, Gar Wood, Lyman, name any, going WAY back before my time anyway, that didn't use reverse rotation with a righthand/starboard steer small runabout with a 1:1 gear. The exception being the Chris flywheel-forward engines, which were basically a SB Chevy mounted backwards in the boat, which accomplished the same objective of torque compensating for or not adding to, the drivers weight. If you look at any older boat and it's turning a RH prop, and spinning it thru a 1:1 gear, then it's typically a rev rot engine. Or it's leaning to starboard.

reidp wrote: Hey, maybe we can take this thread headed in a different, reverse direction, but not meaning to go backwards and rehash. But I don't know of many older inboard mfrs., i.e., Chris Craft, Century, Hickins, Gar Wood, Lyman, name any, going WAY back before my time anyway, that didn't use reverse rotation with a righthand/starboard steer small runabout with a 1:1 gear. The exception being the Chris flywheel-forward engines, which were basically a SB Chevy mounted backwards in the boat, which accomplished the same objective of torque compensating for or not adding to, the drivers weight. If you look at any older boat and it's turning a RH prop, and spinning it thru a 1:1 gear, then it's typically a rev rot engine. Or it's leaning to starboard.

What Reid said... I've got a 62 "Higgins" (how did you know about them brian?) it has a "backward" rotating motor also ,but has a left-hand steer....heres a pic..

according to everything Ive ever heard about drive/engine torque theory, shouldnt my engine run "regular"?

Chuck,
naw, that pic is over a year old... im still trying to get the thru-bottom hardware off... (dang 5200 caulk)..I do hope in a couple months to have it sunnyside up..


btw, I am building a "backwards" rotating 283 for her...should be interesting!?

jbear wrote: You guys got me reaching for the Beam again with this rotating talk. All I know is my prop goes round and round so I can ski. john

all I got to say is I didn't post that last one credited to me, I was watching the colts game at hooters at that time, that's bullsh*t. especially after what I really posted. i have to check a few things but that isn't right.

Chris, Put some powder on that chafing and lets get this thing heeled over.

Brian, I feel like such a "Hick". As to steer side and rotation, certainly many boats had left hand steer over the years including a handful of CC's, but I was just referring to the norm of so many RH steers typically using rev rot engines, but we already see exceptions with Steve's Higgins. Steve, I guess Higgins wanted that LH steer and more than likely tested the boat and got the best performance with the RR engine? Hickins??? I think maybe I accidentally crossed Higgins with Huckins. Yeah, that's it. These were two of the handful of companies that built PT boats for the Navy way back when, for those that didn't already know.    

79, what happened, havin a hard time understanding, wanna talk about it? lol

I once had a '64 (ish) Chris Craft woodie run-a-bout with a reverse rotation 350 Chevy (original engine was 327 changed out by PO). The boat was a hoot and I just loved that Chevey engine. I rebuilt the sucker as soon as I purchased the boat and then did my best to try and kill it, but never could. I sank the boat in my driveway three times over the years. After each sinking, I simply drained the oil, removed the spark plugs, put in new oil, turned her over, reinstalled the plugs and she fired right up and ran perfectly until I day I sold her.

The thing I liked about the Chevy RR engine was the use of gears to turn the camshaft, oil pump and thus distributor in a normal rotation manner. So, the only things turning RR are the crank and pistons. Made parts purchasing simple. Firing order was simply exchanging position of the #1 and #8 plug wires in the cap.

I hope this tread keeps heading in a new direction (thread hijacked on purpose).

Ya try and be a nice guy offer and olive branch and then someone goes and screws it up, changed the PW, oh well their lose I guess.

Da' Bears   NOOOOO the COLTS RULE THE NFL.

Allen Da bears will never advance far enough to meet the COLTS.

I'm with Mojo.

Colts just may blow it in the playoffs like before.

also, I believe it is Peyton not Da Bears' Payton (Walter).

PLBC wrote: also, I believe it is Peyton not Da Bears' Payton (Walter).

alright now, you are correct but I can't believe MY spelling was just corrected after reading the prior 3 pages. Yikes

Man that's an old motor even has a generator and not an alternator, what year is that thing?

81nautique wrote: Chris, Da Bears spanked little brother last night and they'll take care of Payton when it's time Actually I could care less since I'm a Pats fan and it's getting a little more painful each week.

   C'mon 81,it aint that bad.The game against the Colts was a joke.The game against the Broncos was also a joke.A loss is a loss,but they are at least proving that they are THE BEST team in the NFL,and the only team that can beat them is themselves

   The Colts and Broncos couldn't have done it alone,The Bears?......I guess we'll see!
   
   Sorry 79,at least your high price kicker shanked his only 2 field goals of the year at Foxboro      


       Mike

05 210 wrote:        Sorry 79,at least your high price kicker shanked his only 2 field goals of the year at Foxboro              Mike

That was priceless wasn't it, that crowd went crazy..