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  1. Orlando76
    FML, just bought a full set last week from skier to skier.
  2. Orlando76
    I spent one season on double boot. Then switched to RTP the following season and this morning I switched back to double boot which is where I think I'll stay. My foot started slipping out of RTP as my skiing improved plus I get overall better support with double boot. But a RTP is just so much more comfortable and convenient.
  3. Orlando76
    I think HO's made their way in '92 but I'm not certain. If you look at the vertical face of the head on the front of the engine and the rear also you can see 3 or 4 raised bars in the casting of the head about 3/4" long, that'll tell you it's an HO. You can also look at #1 cylinder hole and it'll either have GT or P stamped, that'll indicate HO as well but I'm not certain the latter casting was always used.
  4. Orlando76
    I chose my 351 carb'd HO over the infamous GT40 because I know it only takes spark, fuel, and air to run, unlike EFI. when adjusted properly a carb will crank with just a slight bump of the key (once warm of course). My suggestion is if any point you start to have issues pointing towards the carb, just bite the bullet and buy a brand new marine 4160 from Jegs.
  5. Orlando76
    Wow. Life is short. Challenge us all to take a set today. We lost the greatest.
  6. Orlando76
    *weight
  7. Orlando76
    I do keep it an a bag with fin placed on floor board and the headrest catches about 10" below tip so it's kept verticals with no other support but no wait being on it. I'd take it with me diluting the day buts it's more apt to get damaged and stolen on the job.
  8. Orlando76
    The past two weeks it seems like my gear hasn't left the cab of my truck as I've been "on call" to ski. It's August, can easily hit 130* in Florida, how bad is this damaging my ski?
  9. Orlando76
    These NWZ's are overpriced in general IMO. To get a beater boat for less than 8 is tough. No doubt for the same coin you can get into a TSC. some people prefer the look of the slant back over the bubble butt and it takes a decent skier to out ski a NWZ.
  10. Orlando76
    Given realistic hours and condition, sounds fair enough. I paid less than that for mine but had to put $ in it right away.
  11. Orlando76
    @6balls sharpest looking swoosh boat I've ever seen. Nice! What's the interior color combination?
  12. Orlando76
    Yeah im a lil fuzzy on that too. When I first started skiing I was the worst at bent arms. Now I'm good (I think) at keeping my arms straight, elbows pinned to vest and keep handle towards hip but I find it impossible to ski around the buoy like this. At the buoy I can't help but move my arms and do some pulling but once back to the wake I feel like I'm decent arm position again. But then again, 15,009 hours watching slalom YouTube videos and 90% are doing something similar.
  13. Orlando76
    I'm similar stats as you. I've had two coaches tell me to ski at 28 and on my Senate I absolutely hate 28. 30-32 feels a million times better but was too fast for me to make the course so I moved the buoys inward to 30' from centerline of boat, worked on that for a few months, widened it to 34' worked on that, I "mastered" 34' then this weekend I bumped the course to the full 38'. Once in a blue moon I ski with a few well seasoned short liners and they agreed they don't want to see me at 28, way too slow and not go below 32.
  14. Orlando76
    @CarterEaton holy cow I don't want to know what conditions you ski in to where you learned clenching butt cheeks helps. But I do see that insightful.
  15. Orlando76
    I wish I was that attached to my regular tug. Now my '76 Ski Nautique.... I'm loading shells.
  16. Orlando76
    I'm going (as a spectator) but only if my wife is too pregnant to travel like we're supposed to.
  17. Orlando76
    Yeah it is. I forgot but rumor has it Ivanhoe has a course currently.
  18. Orlando76
    I live in Mt. Dora across the street from the chain. I have a course out there but it's on the east side of lake and with our 10mph westerly wind all summer, forget it. So I'm going to start skiing Johns lake in Winter Garden or I believe there's a protected course on Clear Lake downtown Orlando. But work takes me anywhere in Orlando.
  19. Orlando76
    I'm hoping to find a ski partner for early weekday morning passes. I feel like I'll never improve if I can't ski more frequently. I'm just a slow -15 skier with a '93 Ski Nautique or I'll bring gas for yours.
  20. Orlando76
    I think all of my spills have come at the ball, many different reasons but all at the ball. I hadn't splashed on the wake in years. The only severe injury I've sustained thus far was poor form... Racing on-coming boat wake.... Showing off, and the impact was so hard the zipper from my USCG vest separated my sternum cartilage. I've since learned a non USCG vest may be safer imo.
  21. Orlando76
    @PBD I think Joel is right. I believe the GT40 debuted in 94 but only in a Sport Nautique.
  22. Orlando76
    I'm a Correct Craft guy so I would say a 90-96 Ski Nautique would be the lower priced tug to start with. 93 and later gets you into a composite boat. 97-2001 ski nautique Is a world class slalom wake and still very hard to beat with a 2015 model boat and those are starting to be found in the $10k range. Mastercraft has good boats from that era but I think a few models were hit and miss, I'm not certain, same with Malibu. I ski my '93 and a 2000 Ski nautique at 15 off 32 mph regularly and I feel the performance in the two are very close.
  23. Orlando76
    Didn't think about that..... Kinda like the dreaded pro tec ignition.
  24. Orlando76
    If your timing is too advanced your starter will try and turn the crank one way and combustion sequence is going the other way and it'll act like the starter and or battery doesn't have the cojones to crank it.
  25. Orlando76
    Is it acting like a dead battery and its struggling to turn over? Check timing and coils seem to be finicky sometimes when they get hot. Does opening up the throttle help? Are plugs looking wet? When you shut off engine once hot, check to see if you continue to see fuel dripping down throat ( you shouldn't).
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