Quote Originally Posted by JerseyRodder
Sounds like a cool build. What was the reason you think you had the valve problem? I built a small block for a prop driven boat and have had this happen twice now. I suspect my problem was valve float at too high RPMs when the prop becomes unhooked when I get a boat that was never meant for this power out of the water. I'm having the heads redone now and will be installing a rev limiter. ---JR
I do not know how it happened. I bought the engine from someone who it happened to. Water ingestion is easy on a jet pump engine if you do not know how to set up the water system and do not have the correct restrictors in place. Also the T valve has a lot to do with it. I am doing away with all that and getting an electric valve for this called a banderlog valve.
Thanks.
T.J.
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