New Owner

Carb yes. The rest I'm not sure only owned it for a few months. How do I check on the ignition? Spoke to a friend of mine that is fantastic working on cars and he said he could rebuild my carb with extra parts he had from drag racing so it would be high end stuff.

How often should the carb be adjusted?

Hey guys thanks for all of your help. I've taken the boat out 4 or 5 times with no more leaks, but I'm noticing after making a few pulls and sitting a few minutes that the boat doesn't want to idle well and goes dead alot. Any ideas on this one would be much appreciated.

crobi2 wrote: That's a pretty boat. I guess that engine is a 302 or is it a 289? Showing the gaps in my knowledge.

It's actually a Chrysler 318 and painted the wrong color!

Nice find, cool looking boat

Looks nice. I love yellow, had a yellow silverado and Honda CBR.

defsc wrote: I'm also a new owner. just bought a 1969 barracuda any important things I should know about this boat? my first boat I live in Maine cant wait to get it in the water!

What part of Maine do you boat in?

As far as things to know...hmmm. Make sure you've got oil in the engine, fresh gas in your tank, a charged battery. Make sure that any parts of the cooling system that were taken apart for winterization are put back together.

Congrats on your boat. This is my first boat and I'm learning alot from all the great people on this site. The first time I put mine in the water I had to adjust he packing around the shaft because it was a pour not a drip every 7 seconds. Check for other leaks water, gas, oil and tranny fluid. Make sure prop spins freely by hand and prop shaft looks good and straight. Enjoy everyone checking out your toy...

Replaced tranny hoses and spark plugs this past saturday. Maybe I can put it in the water this weekend to give it another go.

Put my new winch strap on this evening and installed my new fuel guage that I ordered from nautiqueparts.com
Thanks for the sticker

I also fired up the boat on my new free fake a lake and let it warm up and run 5-10 minutes and didn't see any leaks from the tranny. Will check again in the morning, but all still looked good 1-2 hours after running.

You shouldn't run the tranny when out of the water it's hard on the cutless bearing and the driveshaft seal.

As for launching...I launch in a river that has a pretty good current what I found helps is don't put your trailer so deep. Back in till the fenders are just above the water, that way they will help guide the boat off and on.
Once at night(in a hurry) I put it too deep and when I pulled it out the current had pushed it to one side of the trailer and it ended up on top of the edge of the fender and smashed the fender and took a chunk of gel out of the bottom edge of the boat. DON'T DO THAT!!!

Tiger76 wrote: I have the wench strap ....

Just for clarification:
Wench: Verb:to associate, especially habitually, with promiscuous women

Woah.
now a winch strap I understand , and I do use one on the front of the boat.   probably a part to be replaced every couple years so you don't run the risk of breakage.   Also probably good to carry a spare if you are using this as your primary method of holding the boat down.

If you're using a syringe to back flush the pitot and you are getting dribbles then you've got blockage in there somewhere. Water should come flying out of there like a squirt gun. I've used a small fish hook to dig in the hole at the base or use a drill bit smaller than the hole and hand drill it till you free up the debris.

Brian, the tubing was actually laying round the shop for a couple of months as someone ordered the wrong stuff. We needed hard plastic tubing for a job not rubber so I found a use for it.

We use syringes all the time at work to inject resin into parts or for small applications where we use them like a baker would icicing to apply resin to small bushings or inserts where you don't want a huge mess or applying resin on parts similar to a caulk gun.

Thanks for the pics. Gotta find some more time to work on it.