So little back story bought my 1988 1950v in 2011 at lake anna, Va fishing tournaments in a club there til i got stationed at Ft Hood, TX. I took my dad and the boat to Texas and we spent my first hour in Texas registering the boat and getting the title changed over. i had a week before i had to report and spent it fishing stillhouse hollow lake. spent 2 years at hood then got out an the boat has sat since mothers day 2015. I moved to Houston the end of 2015 and the boat had been under a cover until i moved back to Maryland in 2017 where it was put in the barn until a few weeks ago. Now that i have a job that allows me to have a life i have been wanting to get back on the water other than a kayak.
So i picked up some used batteries for a reasonable price that were not maintained (reconditioning in progress), found out i had a 22p quicksilver? SS prop that was 14.25 and that had previously netted me 51-53 WOT trimmed out rpm unknown do not remember nor do i think the tach was working then. Scouring FB marketplace i found a tempest plus 23p that had no wear for half of what a used prop are going for. from my understanding the 23p would be a good start for a 19ft 1500lbs hull. I had a whale tail on the motor already so jus been getting curious as to how this prop will perform.
Any who, week before last i replaced the rectifier, fuel line, pulled the lower unit inspected the water pump and impeller, new lower unit oil, put the new prop on, and got the batteries to hold charge. Well last week was rough on me an i needed some wind/ fishing therapy so i cleaned up the boat put the tools away poured a bottle of seafoam in the fuel tank. Mind you this beast 1988 Black Maxx 150 has not ran in 6 years since the fuel connector broke after a trip in 2015 on mothers day, Now i had been starting it on the bunny ears and wasnt having any issues. The first start it took about 10 mins before it finally coughed but after that it was usually the 2nd or third try, hell one morning it belched to life as soon as i hit the key like a 4 stroke.
Remember that seafoam, i had the bilge hatch open and did on last walk around before goin to bed that friday night an i noticed that it was wet in the bilge under the filler hose..... Yea that Fillup in the morning almost got expensive had i not seen that. So i fought and fought and fought to get those damn clamps off the filler neck breaking that in the process but i got it and managed to keep the filler line mostly intact to get the length i needed. i was bound and determind that i was going to at least hit the water sat so every mariners worst nightmare West marine was open i got the parts i needed and left half my wallet with them lol. So I go home and wrestle this new fuel filler into place making sure the clamps could be reached later on 2 hrs later an a lil petroleum jelly were back in action good as new.
Hurry up, hookup the boat and off to the ramp we go still go half a day still plenty of time to do a little fishing an give her a rip. Pay for the ramp fee unstrap put the plug in back her in the water she pops off the trailer an sit pretty in the water i leave the bow strapped up just in case... Jump in the boat drop the motor in the water pump the bulb til shes hard set the throttle on warm-up flick the master switch grab the key.... take a breath and give the key a twist crank crank crank, crank crank crank, crank crank crank, hmmm battery sounds weak i'll jump it off the trolling motor like ive done time an time before well its no use went from crank to silence starter and starter solenoid both decided they were done but hey she floats.
This weekend i replace the starting battery, starter solenoid and the starter and have let the batteries on trickle charge an then kept them topped with the on-board charger was a little wetter that i would have liked friday and sunday, an i was fishing as a rider on sat in a tournament. so i havent gotten to the ramp to give her another go but its the little victories along the way then the little gremlins that show up at the last second.
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Originally Posted by danover321
