Wiz,
I recommend you put a hour meter on your engine. It is inexpensive, easy to
install, and it will make it much easier to keep up with the 50 hr oil
changes.

I always used sound as an indication of proper trim. I start with the
outdrive trimmed all the way in. Once I am on plane, I trim it out till I
hear a change in tone from the prop. At that point, I trim it back a tad.
On most of my boats, it was trimming the outdrive about a 1/3 of the way,
but it will vary from boat to boat.


"Mr Wizzard" wrote in message
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"seeray28" wrote in message
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Remember how we talked about the top portion of the gas tank being added
on
to make 21 gallons.

Ya know Steve, I was thinking about what you said
about that when I was filling it up when this happened
yesturday. A minute or two into that thought, va-woosh!.

Well I take the back seat rest off so I can see the
tank.

We think alike in a way. After that outing, I was home
cleaning up the boat, and just happened to pop the
seat off on the other side and saw the battery. So
I say hum, wonder what I can see behind the other
cusion. Poped that one off, and said, ah-ha! the tank.
And so I thought yeah, I can do this at the gas station
next time I fill up.


When that portion of the tank starts to get gas in it I stop, thats
about 20 gallons or 100 miles range and you wont get any fuel slosh.
On a side note there is another 175 running around the Mississippi river
as
well as ours, everytime the wife and I go out, hes coming in as we are
going
out. its kinda wierd looking at a live reflection of yourself on the
river.
When you changed your oil how did it look, mine was black/brown.
Steve

I'm probably just a tad shy of 20 hours by now
(lost count actually). Its just starting to get brown.
I want to change it, but I need to get a filter. Maybe
I'll do that today. Yeah, seeing that same boat out
is weird isn't it? Once you know how to spot it,
its easy to pick it out - just look for that square
edge in the windshield to side window transition.

So while you're here, got some more questions
for ya.

trim: Still trying to figger this out. I got on a
local lake that was smooth as glass yestyrday.
(man!, what a trip!) anyways, so when I
trim up, I "normally" trim to where that gague
is right on the 3/4 mark on the gague (remember
that the gague is off a bit, right). Anyways, I
keep hearing that to find proper trim at speed,
trim up/out so that it starts bobbing, and trim
in/down a bit. Well, mine never "bobs" up/down.
what *does* happeen however, it that when I
trim up/out ast where I normally run, the steering
starts to get harder, and it wants to pull to the left.
The boat does seem to start going faster, but like
I said, steering gets noticebly harder, and wants
to pull to the left - you really gotta hang on to
the wheel and "steer" the thing at speed like
this. So, is this normal? - or when at this mode,
am I trimmed up/out too high?

Engine: Hearing a ticking sound that sounds
to me like valve tappets. Its not overly loud,
but does appear present at low to modest
speed. Does yours do this? Is this part of
the normal breakin/ware-in process? At
what point should I be concerned and adjust
valve lash ?

idle: The boat generally runs well, I will say
that. That new little electonic fast idle device
on the carb is interesting - makes noise while
cold, and takes longer than what I think it should
to fall back off fast idle. But thats all ok. But the
other day, when it was hot, I was maneuvering
around the launch to get it on the trailer, and I
was doing some FWD/REV shifting, the idle
seemed to get/be *really* low, so much so that
it actually stalled. Usually I pop it in neutral and
rev it up a tad any chance I get, but I had some
tricky maneuvors to do pretty quick, so I didn't
have a free hand to pop it in neutral. This ever
happen to you ?

Probably got other questions to share, but will
wait till next time.

Thanks!




"Mr Wizzard" wrote in message
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So every time I go to fill up my new 2005 Bayliner 175 Capri,
it overflows, and floods all over the swim deck (and stains it)
No matter how slow I go, when that sucker clicks off, whoosh,
big ole wave of gas O leen all over the place. What am I doing
wrong?

Thanks!