I was out for a cruise yesterday with my Twin ’56 Javelins.
After about 2 hrs, one engine revs up significantly.
Quickly throttle back, I find that each engine shifts into forward and reverse smoothly, and each one provides thrust at idle and slow throttle.
However upon throttling up a little, the port engine proves to be the guilty one.
Proceeded home “on one” ( the beauty of running 2 engines) And pulled the boat onto its trailer. Over night I get the idea that maybe the prop may have separated from its hub, although I have never had this problem in my many years of messing around in boats.
Pulled the left frop this afternoon and immediatly notice the hub has come back tightly against the shear pin, and the gap to the gearcase looks a little wider. The pin was so snug against the hub, that I had to tap it out with a drift.
Sliding the prop off, and flipping it over pretty much convinced me that I was on the correct path.I’ll try to add some pics. The hub had shifted/slipped to the right in the last pic.
I slipped on a spare prop but have yet to give it a try out on the Lake, but I’m confident that we’re all set for more boating.
Never too old to learn something new, and it’s what makes our hobby so much fun.
Bill.
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