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The Duck Hammer wrote:

Woody wrote:You going to put a hard sided blind on it?

If he does can we call it the Titanic? I think the Fitzgerald is taken.

To obvious, we can do better than that.

Flightstopper wrote:

The Duck Hammer wrote:

Woody wrote:You going to put a hard sided blind on it?

If he does can we call it the Titanic? I think the Fitzgerald is taken.

To obvious, we can do better than that.

Not firing on all cylinders today. Pardon the low level thinking.

Lookin' good Flight
Don't know why, but I had imagined you mounting the whole jetski thru-hull

Deltaman wrote:Lookin' good Flight
Don't know why, but I had imagined you mounting the whole jetski thru-hull

You really should try not to imagine him mounting anything... kinda creepy.

Deltaman wrote:Lookin' good Flight
Don't know why, but I had imagined you mounting the whole jetski thru-hull

Wad the original plan and took forever to convince my wife I wasn't going to be driving the boat sitting on the jet ski Once I got the boat home I decided I liked the boat too much and couldn't bastardize it like that. How some mount it.

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Was able to put some time in today but found out I have a leak in my machine and have no gas to continue welding tonight. Was still able to get the bulk of the fitting done and all that is left to fab is the motor mounts.

Made the first cuts into the hull to fit the pump mounting plate.


Then worked the sides out with hammer and dolly and trimmed back to follow the plate.





Then fit the intake tunnel to the hull and all that's left it to open a hole for the driveshaft to run through


Getting close

Where's the water intake at?

Woody wrote:Where's the water intake at?

The big metal thing between the motor and pump. The area underneath it will be cut out and feed water to the pump.

Impressive!!!!!

Heck of a project! Looking good

Thanks guys

Badass!!!!!!! Looks awesome.

Today I finished basically all the tough fitting of the pump and motor mounts. Everything now just needs to be welded up and dialed in.

how are you sealing where the driveshaft goes through the intake?

I still have to weld on a small piece of pipe that this clamps onto. It has a needle bearing and seals inside it.

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You're making this look too easy.

FlintRiverFowler wrote:You're making this look too easy.

Really not that complicated if you can work metal.

you got me looking for jetskis on CL now.

He's got me thinking about sacrificing one.

When you get that bad ass boat done can I barrow it for a weekend .

I'm wondering if you'll be able to 360 it like a ski. Some guys with performance jet boats can 360 it too.

FlintRiverFowler wrote:I'm wondering if you'll be able to 360 it like a ski. Some guys with performance jet boats can 360 it too.

I've seen videos of guys going 180. Very anxious to get this baby on the water.

capt1972 wrote:you got me looking for jetskis on CL now.

FlintRiverFowler wrote:He's got me thinking about sacrificing one.

You're really going to want one when I post a video doing 40 in it! Hopefully....

Should have done duals.

Olly wrote:Should have done duals.

That would be crazy

Olly wrote:Should have done duals.

Maybe on the next rig....

Finally got around to stripping the rest of the ski. Now just have to throw all this in the boat after welding.

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Are you going to keep the oil injection or mix it yourself ?

What do you think? I know lots of people mix but I hate mixing. Figure is probably better to mix