Well, I know this is getting to be a long post but I'm basically using it as a journal. Now, I picked up my boat Friday evening and went to the lake. Success! She runs much better and starts right up. THANKS TO JOEY at Chattanooga Marine. Stupid Timer Base! The grass ring I installed THANKS TO 275prostratos also helped with the hole shot issue of the prop blowing out. But the hole shot was so slow, took too long to roll out on plane. So I did what I thought I should do, I raised the jack plate back to 3" below the keel at the transom, as it was originally. So on Saturday morning I took her back out and hole shot was much improved! Still not like it should be I believe. With my gear case break in period at the 6 hour mark I can now make short full throttle runs. Now I have known all along I may not have the correct prop on the boat, Shooter 13.25" x 27p 4 blade, and I am looking to resolve that. I either need a Trophy, TXP or Raker II probably in the 24 to 25 pitch range according to Performance Prop. NOW, I did notice another slight issue after all this was the heavy torque to the right when running over 40 mph. I did as you should and adjusted the tab to the right and that took care of a lot of it. Now I have noticed once I'm over say 45 mph 5500 r's, I feel as if the steering sits down and is real heavy like something is locking down and it's just hard to steer to the left and right. Now I'm not sure if I should go up more with the jack plate or what. I do know what going down will do. But now I think about it, I wonder, is the jack plate is where it is and the grass ring removed due to this heavy steering, removing the grass ring would let the prop "slip" more possibly not causing this heavy steering and also only allowing 56 mph at 5900 r's before I installed the grass ring, now I get about 48 mph at 5900 r's, I do know that 27 p is too much prop. emoScratch
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