1979 Hydrostream Viking restore thread

[roadkill636]

Trailer all painted and new bunk carpet to ite. just put on a bit of gold pin stripe for accent

[W2F a V-King]

Very Nice Work!!!

Now it's time to get it wet !!!!!

[XstreamVking]

Very fancy trailer....

[roadkill636]

Bout ready for.some primer and paint

[roadkill636]

All sanded down and sprayed with epoxy primer. Had some moisture come thru the gun o to the lu.

[roadkill636]

2 coats of Acrilic Urathane

[roadkill636]

New Quicksilver water pump and all bolted back on.

[roadkill636]

Well i have a deadline to get this Stream in the water in 2 days for a "test and tune day" with 2 other boats.. a Sweet 16 Donzi thats just been put back together and my brothers blown 454 checkmate just put back together full rooler mota. All 3 of us gunna load up and tune em on the water. All i have to do to mi e is.....
In order for me.to run.i still need to mount seats,mount fuel tank and plumbing it" complete wire trailer lights, bleed hyd steering, change gear lube, set adv timming on mota, change props,re pack wheel bearings on trailer, just to get it barley to go for saterday...

Shouldnt be tooooo much of a streach..

[XstreamVking]

Better turn the lights on, your gonna be doing an all nighter......

[roadkill636]

Ok. Pulled an all niter. Till 3am. And got all tgem things done. Got up this morning and had to completely wire the trailer. Finally made it to the marina for test and tune.

[W2F a V-King]

So how did it do ?

Video.... ?

It looks great setting in the water. That flip flop color is cool.

[boatermike]

looks nice!!

[roadkill636]

Mota dosent want to run at all under 2500-3000 rpms. Its hard to get started and once it is it dont want to take off and go. But when it does get over about 3000 it smooths out and really runs really good. Crusing at 4000 and 40mph and nailing it really throws ya back in the seat. About 5000 starts to try to get up on the pad but iv never driven a pad boat befor and not got the seat time to know how to get thru the chine walk. But plenty of throtle left for when it does.. pice to come whenever sister sends them.

[roadkill636]

Fixed it... i didnt tighten the jam nut on the idle screw and it moved and messes up the butterfly's also. And a bleed line was off too.

[roadkill636]

Got 2 more props to try out. A Merc 28 and a Mazco 31 anyone hear of tbis "Randy" on the Mazco?