Hello everyone 
Very nice forum you guys have going here, full of everything we need and lacking all we can live without.
Last year about this time I bought a 1967 Fiberform Olympic V runabout that had been sitting since 1993, and needless to say it was in sad shape, but had a solid skin on it and looked sleek in my eyes.
Since then I've replaced every piece of wood in the lower hull. Stringer, floor boards, transom. All of which are now fully inundated with epoxy resin and completely covered with one or more layers of fiberglass. After all that I decided on a nice dark brown base for the top, with large red metalflake and a super clear 6 coats of 2k urethane over it all. It gives it that "wicked witch of the west ruby slipper" look. I don't really like the flexibility of the urethane for a top-side coating, and in hindsight I should have done gelcoat instead. If i set my beer on it, it gets scratched far too easily . I was told the UV resistance of urethane was/is far greater than that of any gelcoat, but we shall see.
I got her out on the water on friday for the second time since I bought it, I had her out once before right after the purchase and was afraid the transom would break, not to mention the floor moving up and down under my feet. It runs a little rough from idle to midrange, but starts right up every time and really screams at top end. I know for sure I need to disassemble, inspect, and clean the carbs. I have done setting the timing and synching the ignition to throttle, and tried to get the low speed screws set. The adjustment didn't seem to help on 2 of the carbs, I suspect there's some solidified fuel/oil restricting things in there. I was looking at the carbs while having a brew and noticed they have casting numbers on the starboard side of the assembly, the upper and center being 315082 - D4 and the lower being 315082 - D2. This seems odd, seeing as how most of the center carburetor parts have different numbers in the parts diagrams, so I would expect the center one to have the different casting/part number. The motor has obviously been apart before, right down to the crankshaft, because there are 2 different types of sealant at just about every seam.
Do any of you fine fellows have one that hasn't been apart (or hasn't been put back together in a possible wrong configuration) that you can look at and let me know if this is indeed the right or wrong configuration? Or maybe even one of you has been there and found the carbs in the wrong place on his engine.
I checked online and in forums, but the closest I could come to any answer was that one number was upper and one was lower on a 50hp Johnson.
Thank you, and sorry for the long-winded post.
~Eric
Very nice forum you guys have going here, full of everything we need and lacking all we can live without.
Last year about this time I bought a 1967 Fiberform Olympic V runabout that had been sitting since 1993, and needless to say it was in sad shape, but had a solid skin on it and looked sleek in my eyes.
Since then I've replaced every piece of wood in the lower hull. Stringer, floor boards, transom. All of which are now fully inundated with epoxy resin and completely covered with one or more layers of fiberglass. After all that I decided on a nice dark brown base for the top, with large red metalflake and a super clear 6 coats of 2k urethane over it all. It gives it that "wicked witch of the west ruby slipper" look
. I don't really like the flexibility of the urethane for a top-side coating, and in hindsight I should have done gelcoat instead. If i set my beer on it, it gets scratched far too easily . I was told the UV resistance of urethane was/is far greater than that of any gelcoat, but we shall see.I got her out on the water on friday for the second time since I bought it, I had her out once before right after the purchase and was afraid the transom would break, not to mention the floor moving up and down under my feet. It runs a little rough from idle to midrange, but starts right up every time and really screams at top end. I know for sure I need to disassemble, inspect, and clean the carbs. I have done setting the timing and synching the ignition to throttle, and tried to get the low speed screws set. The adjustment didn't seem to help on 2 of the carbs, I suspect there's some solidified fuel/oil restricting things in there. I was looking at the carbs while having a brew and noticed they have casting numbers on the starboard side of the assembly, the upper and center being 315082 - D4 and the lower being 315082 - D2. This seems odd, seeing as how most of the center carburetor parts have different numbers in the parts diagrams, so I would expect the center one to have the different casting/part number. The motor has obviously been apart before, right down to the crankshaft, because there are 2 different types of sealant at just about every seam.
Do any of you fine fellows have one that hasn't been apart (or hasn't been put back together in a possible wrong configuration) that you can look at and let me know if this is indeed the right or wrong configuration? Or maybe even one of you has been there and found the carbs in the wrong place on his engine.
I checked online and in forums, but the closest I could come to any answer was that one number was upper and one was lower on a 50hp Johnson.
Thank you, and sorry for the long-winded post.
~Eric