Here I am back again. Nearly a month since my last post. I've been away on my proper boat for awhile but came back to make tremendous progress on the project.
From the last post it can be seen that I'd trial fitted the belts, pulleys, clutch and shaft to drive the water jet.
It was with some concern that the kit vendor now does not sell the kit that I bought, but only sells the hull with the major mechanical components already fitted as its too difficult for the likes of me! Bit of a worry, so most of this weekhas been spent in lining everything up so it worlks without the belts flying off or the clutch not engaging. To line up the pulleys I used a bit of steel bar. The predrilled holes for the drive shaft bearings seemed to be a bit in the wrong place and so were enlarged as required.
So starting off with the belt from the pto to the drive shaft...
This is with the engine running at 4000rpm. Proper noisy, but nothing fell off!
Any way, and to cut to the chase here it is all assembled (aprt from the Mole grips) and in action.
and its all operated from this lever next to the handbrake
