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Gary Miller
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"Went to look at a 1996 Maxum
"Went to look at a 1996 Maxum 2300SC with the 5.7LX.The guy had a buy it now for $14500 on Ebay and when we looked it had a severly corroded carb and the starter barely clicked. Anyway long story short we settled on $5m and it was still too much. Water and rust in the intake, water in 4 of the cylinders. We turned it over by hand and loaded it with Marvell Mystery Oil both in the intake and spark plug holes and put the plugs back in for now. The previous owner said the boat ran last year and while getting a divorce had it at a friends who left it uncovered and no bilge-etc during the entire rainy season(San Jose, Ca.) Anyway can we save the motor? My son wants to pull the intake and the heads-do we need to pull heads or just the intake- acid clean it and try a rebuilt carb? I also think the 250hp is a bit light is there any good way of getting 20 to 30 more hp out of it? Oh is there anyway to get water into the engine unless it sunk? There is no mold or mildew anywhere in the boat."
"Went to look at a 1996 Maxum 2300SC with the 5.7LX.The guy had a buy it now for $14500 on Ebay and when we looked it had a severly corroded carb and the starter barely clicked. Anyway long story short we settled on $5m and it was still too much. Water and rust in the intake, water in 4 of the cylinders. We turned it over by hand and loaded it with Marvell Mystery Oil both in the intake and spark plug holes and put the plugs back in for now. The previous owner said the boat ran last year and while getting a divorce had it at a friends who left it uncovered and no bilge-etc during the entire rainy season(San Jose, Ca.) Anyway can we save the motor? My son wants to pull the intake and the heads-do we need to pull heads or just the intake- acid clean it and try a rebuilt carb? I also think the 250hp is a bit light is there any good way of getting 20 to 30 more hp out of it? Oh is there anyway to get water into the engine unless it sunk? There is no mold or mildew anywhere in the boat."