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Re: Anyone own a jet outboard?
[Re: Hevishot13]
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09/16/19 07:14 AM
09/16/19 07:14 AM
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You can buy a jet gear case for yours. You’d have to change cdi units as well. Don’t ask me how much that would cost. But all in all, you wouldn’t want a jet fishing deep rivers or lakes, they suck. I’ve ran them a bunch. Top speed suffers a bunch, overall performance and maneuverability falls off sharply. I found this article that talks about the option of just buying the jet gear for my current motor: https://www.boatingworld.com/engines/drop-the-prop/They claim you can switch them out in an hour, though that probably means at least a half day for someone of my mechanical ability. I gotta research it a lot more, but this might actually work for me. Fishing rivers is a mid-summer through Fall thing, and the rest of the year I'd be better off with a prop. Switching it out once a year would not be that big of a deal If I could learn how to do it. My current boat would not be the ideal jetboat, but I think it would work. It has the typical modified V bow, but it is just a flat bottom at the stern. It's welded and the only modification I think I would have to make is a jack plate. It runs about 32 now; if it only ran 20 with the jet on that would be fine. I have found that access to 6-8 miles of river is plenty for a day of fishing. It looks like I could get everything I'd need for under $3k, and that's a lot less than the $18k or so a new jetboat would cost. And I'd have the versatility to make it back into a prop boat for winter and spring. But it may just be another bad idea. I can change lower units on your engine in about 20 minutes. Well, that gives me hope that I could learn to do it in just 5 hours. ![smile smile](/forum/images/graemlins/default/smile.gif) I found a place in CA that would make a jet unit for my motor for $1900, but it will take 2 months.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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