TJindy280
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I bought the boat on Monday and brought it home and started working on getting the bad gas out of it that had been in there for 2 years; mission accomplished Thursday night! Go fill 'er up after buttoning everything back up, fired it and ran what little was left in the lines out. Great! 
We decide to take her to the lake today (Friday) since it got pretty nice out and I was anxious to start getting it broke in. The motor was a fresh rebuild in the fall of '08 (.060 over 502, edelbrock heads with a roller setup, some good stuff in the short block to stay together under the stress of the procharger)...to never see a lake in '09.
So out we go, undoing the front tie down turnbuckle that hasn't been loosened in about 2 years, stuck, rusted some, yeah...boom, she broke into two pieces! NO big deal, I will just get another one. Fine
Now, the gentlemen (Bill Shumaker, INDY) who built the motor got a call from me on our way down to the lake to see how he wanted to see this motor broke in. He told me to watch the fuel pressure at the time it goes into positive boost to make sure the fuel pressure jumps about 20 psi. Also, the usual, don't let it idle forever, don't just hammer it, power the thing up and down from time to time, got it.
So out of the cove we go, get it up on plane, its acting goofy leaning to the left with both plates all the way up (figure that one out later), down to the dam a 1/4 mile down, U-turn back up to the big part of the lake and start pushing it up past "0" on the boost gauge. Watching the fuel pressure, actually staring at it, I watch it go from 45 psi to 0 in the blink of an eye! Sputtered, coughed, lost power, and then eventually dying. WTF!!!
Tried to start it again, third try it hits some to die again. Raise the hatch to investigate; all of "my" fuel put backs are dry and good. So I try it again, same thing, doesn't want to run. So, I look again, UH OH, the well under the motor is filled with gas, guessing about 3 or 4 gallons worth. I remembered then hearing a squirt and splashing sounds as it hit the key time after time. So obviously a leak somewhere, but could not see a thing, it was in the back I'm assuming; everything up front was dry and good. I wished I knew where it was coming from. Shut everthing down 'cause I really don't feel like blowing this new boat of mine up! We start drifting across the lake since it was such a WINDY ass day. There is hardly a soul on this lake!!!!! (Monroe) Finally got a tow to the ramp, to try and fight this thing by hand, in 25 mph winds and get it loaded by hand in cold ass water! 
One big scuff mark from the dock, soaking wet, cold and pissed 
it's on. No front tiedown.
Get it in the driveway, I'm late to my daughters softball game, go there and come back. I need to wash/rinse the well out from all that gas. So my son and I go out to do that and put the cover on since it is going to rain tonight. I hit the button on the hatch and heard something pop, Yep that's it, she's not coming up. How the hell do you get that thing up? Screw it, put the cover on it, get a beer
and we will look for a better day tomorrow.
Shumaker said he will look at the fuel issue when I get it to him. Any ideas out there, I'm assuming something around the fuel rail in the back, but what?
How do you get the hatch up when something goes wrong with the lift motor?
This is what happens when you let things sit !
We decide to take her to the lake today (Friday) since it got pretty nice out and I was anxious to start getting it broke in. The motor was a fresh rebuild in the fall of '08 (.060 over 502, edelbrock heads with a roller setup, some good stuff in the short block to stay together under the stress of the procharger)...to never see a lake in '09.
So out we go, undoing the front tie down turnbuckle that hasn't been loosened in about 2 years, stuck, rusted some, yeah...boom, she broke into two pieces! NO big deal, I will just get another one. Fine
Now, the gentlemen (Bill Shumaker, INDY) who built the motor got a call from me on our way down to the lake to see how he wanted to see this motor broke in. He told me to watch the fuel pressure at the time it goes into positive boost to make sure the fuel pressure jumps about 20 psi. Also, the usual, don't let it idle forever, don't just hammer it, power the thing up and down from time to time, got it.
So out of the cove we go, get it up on plane, its acting goofy leaning to the left with both plates all the way up (figure that one out later), down to the dam a 1/4 mile down, U-turn back up to the big part of the lake and start pushing it up past "0" on the boost gauge. Watching the fuel pressure, actually staring at it, I watch it go from 45 psi to 0 in the blink of an eye! Sputtered, coughed, lost power, and then eventually dying. WTF!!!
Tried to start it again, third try it hits some to die again. Raise the hatch to investigate; all of "my" fuel put backs are dry and good. So I try it again, same thing, doesn't want to run. So, I look again, UH OH, the well under the motor is filled with gas, guessing about 3 or 4 gallons worth. I remembered then hearing a squirt and splashing sounds as it hit the key time after time. So obviously a leak somewhere, but could not see a thing, it was in the back I'm assuming; everything up front was dry and good. I wished I knew where it was coming from. Shut everthing down 'cause I really don't feel like blowing this new boat of mine up! We start drifting across the lake since it was such a WINDY ass day. There is hardly a soul on this lake!!!!! (Monroe) Finally got a tow to the ramp, to try and fight this thing by hand, in 25 mph winds and get it loaded by hand in cold ass water! One big scuff mark from the dock, soaking wet, cold and pissed it's on. No front tiedown. Get it in the driveway, I'm late to my daughters softball game, go there and come back. I need to wash/rinse the well out from all that gas. So my son and I go out to do that and put the cover on since it is going to rain tonight. I hit the button on the hatch and heard something pop, Yep that's it, she's not coming up. How the hell do you get that thing up? Screw it, put the cover on it, get a beer
and we will look for a better day tomorrow. Shumaker said he will look at the fuel issue when I get it to him. Any ideas out there, I'm assuming something around the fuel rail in the back, but what?
How do you get the hatch up when something goes wrong with the lift motor?
This is what happens when you let things sit !
. I also have wondered "what if". I got a trusty 2x4 for mine till I break down and buy the struts
