Super Jet Swapmeet's "Really?" RN build

swapmeet

swapmeet

Brotastic
Location
Arlington TX
Ok ok ok....

So i've been defoaming. To me its not that big of a PITA... just a little time consuming. I'm kinda tapped out on funny this morning, I hope ya'll will forgive me.
Found some things that are probably expected, and a few that I did not expect.

I started cutting out the foot hold on the right side of the ski. Here is the ridiculous crack I found when I padded the foot hold. So lets take note here. Very thin glass, the glass holding it in barely adhered to the hull. Back to the goat semen and cheese cloth or whatever I said before. Its weak and thin... Like deftons' wee wee...

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So I cut it out... and what do I find at the bottom of the foot hold????














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I mean really... seriously... the bottom is thicker than the average Furr's Buffet patron's thighs and the top is paper thin?







*sigh* I digress...













This is the standing water that was in the hull after I got most of the foam out of this side.

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So here is where it gets interesting. Apparently Mr Brah added some sort of trim tube or... I honestly don't know, don't care....
Whatever it is, it has a hole rotted through it.

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And while this really should send me over the edge... these metal lines are all loose. They used silicone to seal them, and did a poor job...



More of the soup in the hull...

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Ok, and last but not least. I got the 1 way valve out of the fire wall... remember all the flexy/nasty/wtf going on????

















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kthxbye...

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swapmeet

swapmeet

Brotastic
Location
Arlington TX
Worked some more last night... made a big decision on the scope of the build.


First...

Defoam progress.
Knocked out a bunch of green glue. Almost ready to hit the gunnies with a wire brush to prep for reinforcements.

Pushed the cooling lines out. They were loose... I mean barely anything holding them in. SILICONE is not an acceptable sealing method!!!! Christs sake.


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Green Glue removal from ride plate receivers.

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Now on to my big decision... So I was going to shorten the rear. It was going to be complicated.
I got out the measuring tape last night, started marking off options.

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I decided that, eventually this hull will belong to Mrs Swapmeet. She really likes the way it handles/ rides. So why chop it up, create a bunch of work (probably the most difficult aspect of my planned rebuild,) just to jack with what she's gonna want.

So it stays stock length.


Next steps involve repairing the firewall. Oh that reminds me!


I found this......


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In a hole in the fire wall.

WTF people? Seriously... Dubya Tee Eff.....
 
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