Recent content by twhrider2

Time to repower the old 78 V with its original 470. On a trip to the coast engine ran great for 2 days, no start on day 3. At home started checking ...comp. not good leak down test not good. Pulled head, stuck exh. valves & 3 bent rods, A little water in oil.=manifold ( log type) or riser gave...

Over the winter I built and installed a bow pulpit on the V...also mounted a minn-kota I pilot on the end of the pulpit. In order to deploy trolling motor I had to cut front section of bow rail. Now I would like to #1 have a whole new ss rail built and formed around pulpit($$$$) or #2 have just...

Painted my bow pulpit today and hoping to get it put on this week. Planning to mount an 80lb. thrust 60'' I pilot on it. Read thru past posts and I know REEL used a 70 or 80 on his boat and seemed to do well. Seems like the V may be border line for a 24v vs 36v as I will be using in fresh as...

Need to organize rods in the cuddy...like rod racks mounted to bottom of cuddy roof. Wandering what others are using that works good.

As mentioned in earlier post the prop that came on my V (I/O470) is a 14x21 WOT 3800rpm. Today I got a 14.5x17 alum. for free to try.

Any plans or thoughts on a get together this year? North South or in between. Would be great to meet some folks here and see some other V's Several of us local here in Central NC, Randleman, Bluerunner, myself and others.

After a year and a half of work and mucho denero I finally splashed the V today. Every thing ran smooth, only needed a small tweak on the shift interupter switch. The little 470 ran great!! Spare and Ferm are right I'm a little over propped at 21P. WOT =3800 rpm & 31 mph on gps w/4 adults and...

Hello to all V20'ers, My project is coming along good, just waaay too slow. Soon I need to set up my bilge pump system, I want to go with dual Rule 2000's in the bilge area with 3 position rocker style switchs. I read all the good bad and ugly about float switches, so was wondering if anyone has...

Just look what y'all got me into now ( V20 addiction?). Naw just kidding, thought I would throw in an update since getting the V back in Nov. So far I have the bottom paint stripped off, sanded and now reglassing a few scrapes and gouges on bottom and transom hidden by bottom paint. Also have...

Since getting the V home last weekend I have not had time to do much with it, but want to start a thorough check out of the 470/outdrive. I have no knowledge of maintenance/repairs prior to the last 3 years. I am assuming I have the original '78 470 & outdrive (pre-alpha?). Engine starts and...

Newbie here asking for advise about the 5.7 Mercruiser. Talked with a seller today about his 87 V20. Good news is sounds like hull is clean and solid. Trialer is aluminum in good shape,new axles,hubs,tires etc. Bad news is the 5.7 runs great but has low compression on a couple of cylinders and...

Newbie here just wanting to say hello and how much I have been enjoying this site in the last few days. Had my heart set on getting a CC at some point, but a friend in the neighborhood showed me his 1980 V20 a few weeks ago and it really caught my eye, love the Wellcraft lines. Boat is for sale...