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Hi guys late in the past summer I purchased a hydrostream viper with a 150 merc on it. It has a bobs nosecone with dual low water pickups, and some sort of torque fin on the end of the skeg. I'm not sure what prop is on the boat since it is what was on it when I bought it. It has a jackplate on it with i believe a 7in setback also. The battery and fuel tank are underneath the bow of the boat. My question for you guys is what advice would you guys have to help reduce chine walking. Anywhere close to 60 mph the boat chine walks like crazy unless I run the trim way down. Would a jackplate with less setback help reduce this or would it be worse?
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apparently I am too new to post pictures does anyone know when I can post pictures?
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You can either attach photos right away or after 3 posts you can post links (Includes images from places like photobucket and other photo hosting sites). Its a spam thing. If you have any other question please ask and myself or someone else will be happy to help you out.
You can either attach photos right away or after 3 posts you can post links (Includes images from places like photobucket and other photo hosting sites). Its a spam thing. If you have any other question please ask and myself or someone else will be happy to help you out.
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1982 Hydrostream Vector
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Oh that makes sense I could see why they don't want new users posting links immediately. Thank you!Hippie459MN wrote:Welcome!
You can either attach photos right away or after 3 posts you can post links (Includes images from places like photobucket and other photo hosting sites). Its a spam thing. If you have any other question please ask and myself or someone else will be happy to help you out.
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It could be lots of things. We need to see the boats setup. Motor height or prop shaft height in relation to the pad(bottom of the boat). The core could be bad. I've seen boats with bad cores that we're impossible to drive. Steering system? Bad motor mounts can also make it very difficult to drive. OR, you just need some seat time to learn how to drive a pad-V style hull.
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nosboss wrote:It could be lots of things. We need to see the boats setup. Motor height or prop shaft height in relation to the pad(bottom of the boat). The core could be bad. I've seen boats with bad cores that we're impossible to drive. Steering system? Bad motor mounts can also make it very difficult to drive. OR, you just need some seat time to learn how to drive a pad-V style hull.
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It has hydrolic steering on it so i don't believe that is part of the problem. Maybe the motor mounts and core could be part of the problem? what should I Look for to determine if either of those have an effect. By looking at it the center of the prop shaft is even with the lowest part of the bottom of the transom. I know that I am not the greatest at driving it since it is new to me, however my dad has the same issues when he runs the boat and he previously owned a 90mph vector.
I can take more specific pictures if that would help later this week, but for now these are the only pictures I have.
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With the boat on the trailer, trim the motor down to a normal driving position. Try to move the motor left and right. Shaking it to see if there is any play. If it doesn't move, good. If it does, you need to look and see what is moving and what isn't. That will show you if the motor mounts or something in the steering is bad.
The core... slide under the boat with a rubber mallet and start tapping around. You should hear a solid thud and feel very hard. Move all over. If the sound changes to a hollow sound and has some deflection, the core is bad in that spot.
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The core... slide under the boat with a rubber mallet and start tapping around. You should hear a solid thud and feel very hard. Move all over. If the sound changes to a hollow sound and has some deflection, the core is bad in that spot.
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perfect thank you for the input I will see what I can do and try and narrow it down a little better.nosboss wrote:With the boat on the trailer, trim the motor down to a normal driving position. Try to move the motor left and right. Shaking it to see if there is any play. If it doesn't move, good. If it does, you need to look and see what is moving and what isn't. That will show you if the motor mounts or something in the steering is bad.
The core... slide under the boat with a rubber mallet and start tapping around. You should hear a solid thud and feel very hard. Move all over. If the sound changes to a hollow sound and has some deflection, the core is bad in that spot.
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Re: New to hydrostreams
Too much, 5" maximum.viper_James wrote:It has a jackplate on it with i believe a 7in setback also.
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I thought that might have had something todo with it, is there a minim it should be? or anything under 5" will work?transomstand wrote:
Too much, 5" maximum.
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