Gut Job

Pics of the throttle creap fix??
I hate not being able to take my hand off the throttle while under way.

roger,ck your cable adjustments.it wouldnt hurt to ck for vacuum leak.the carb base gaskets turn to mush and cause a high idle.

What causes a fast idle in neutral but good at idle in gear. 1000 in N. 600 in fear

Roger,
The creep back on the throttle is normal.

Hey, did you ever figure out the wiring at the aft end?

My brain was telling me that I saw something when I actually read it. Last year when I was trying to figure out my lag out of the hole I was reading alot of Holley literature. In the literature I read about full throttle being used to clear a flooded carb. I called Holley Tech Support today and they stated that that is mainly on the Non-Marine Carbs. It is connected to the fast idle some how and on a Marine version the fast Idle isn't used because it would result in going into gear at high idle. So all in all I never saw it on my boat I just read it somewhere and then thought I saw it.

On a different note I got her out on the water tonite and she ran better than it ever has for me I'm smiling ear to ear. All in all I had three issues tonite though on the first test. I had to adjust my throttle and gear cables, going into forward was happening at too high of an r.p.m., Second on the way back to load at the dock my steering jambed up. When I got home it happened to be the vent hose hanging too low and jambing the rudder from turning, Then the third is I have a creeping throttle that I'm looking for some advice on. It doesn't really matter what speed I'm going it only takes about 15 seconds and the throttle starts throttling back. Does any one have any suggestions on how I can remedy this? Or does a new cable do the trick?

Roger,
The choke isn't controlled by the throttle. There is a bimetalic spring under the round black cover on the side of the carb. When you turn on the ignition, this spring gets powered up which heats it opening up the choke.

My driver seat right now has the fiberglass base, then some marine plastic built up in 3/4" layers where the original seat slides are suppose to be, then my seat. I was wondering if I ordered this Seat Slides, would I need anything else in order to connect it to my base and seat other than some bolts from the local hardware store or does this include everything that I'll need?

I'm encountering a brain freeze currently. Can some one tell me what wires go where with hooking up the gas tank? I have a red and a black and a green, I think the green goes to the deck fill and then to the center post? Which would mean that's the ground? So the black also goes there? Then the red goes on the terminal on the outside of the ring?   

Airguide replacement lens

You can just "eye ball" or measure the position rod ends on the front mounts. It doesn't matter if you are off slightly. Get it as level as you can with the hull. The critical is the shaft to engine alignment.

Mine is possibly different so I will wait for someone with a 88 or 87 to chime in. Looking good though. You are really making headway now.

I'm slowly moving along with the project. I've come to realize that when doing a job like this the posts never show how much grinding their realy is. For every picture of progress their should be five pictures of grinding. When I removed my shaft I pleasantly found some nice grooving where the cutlass is. Joy oh joy. The last rebuild had the primary stringers to close to each other that their wasn't enough rooom to align the engine right. Now that the foam is all done I removed the boat from the warehouse and trailered it back to my house to complete the project. The first thing I noticed was that the boat sat evenly on the trailer, prior to ripping it apart every time I trailered it it would creep to one side. I'm thinking that that meant one side was more water logged in the foam and the extra weight to one side would push it to the other once it started bouncing down the road. Here are some pics.

Does some one know how many cubic feet of foam there is under the floor?

This kind of complete rebuild is what my 1983 needs, but I don't have the tools or the environment to do this kind of work myself. What should I expect to pay for someone to restore my entire interior for me?

Morfoot wrote: Wouldn't it be cool if we had in the reference section homemade copies of Blueprints of main and secondary stringers of the different hulls that have been restrung here. I realize that it would be extra effort on the owners part to to lay out every dimension but man it sure would be helpful to those who will need to do a stringer job and whose stringers are nothing but mush and dust.

I've been on a mission to do just that only I wanted to take it a step further and have actual templates made up.   I wrote CC and Art remembers having templates but that is as far as I've gotten don't know if they are on a shelf some where hiding or thrown away?