Hi everybody! My name is Conrad and I am looking forward to being part of the SCJB community!
I recently joined the boating world by helping a friend in need. I am just hoping I didnt get the smelly end of the stick. He was in need of a vehicle bad and so I traded my car for his old jet boat. I paid 3k for the car that I traded him.
He was actually going to pull the motor, ditch the boat, burn it, then turn it into insurance...
I have already got the motor (454BBC) started after replacing two freeze plugs that had been frozen out. No visual cracks on the block, So it started and ran like poo, he told me it wasnt running right last time he took it out. It was back firing through the carb so after some digging I found 5 flat lobes on cam and chewed up lifters, some worn down valve stems, water in the oil ETC. Took the heads off and cylinders are in okay shape, pulled the motora and took the oil pan off and cant SEE any cracks in the block on the inside. Not sure if the water in the oil is from the Bassets or a crack or a blown head gasket... the gaskets looked ok.
Cats made a nest in the boat last winter in which he failed to cover for the winter and they marked it up... !! Break out the psi washer and odo ban!
It does need some work on the bottom too, looks like it was ran into something.. long scratch in the finish and a couple cracks along the scratch on the bottom... I will post some pics off the hull damage later.
All I can find via the HIN is that its from a company no longer around called Mako PleasureCraft INC. A HIN search showed a couple digits on the HIN are questionable so im concerned...
Any body know of them?
If anything I kept a friend from fraud, helped him out with a ride, got a boat, and saved the boat from a horrible death! LOL
It is definitely a project...
So let me know what you think of it!
