Will It Run? 80's UltraNautics JetStar 1250 Jet Boat Sitting 20 years - NNKH
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- The owner of this late 80's Ultranautics Jet Star 1250 mini jetboat said he last had it on the water around 2001. He kept it covered with a tarp and 20 years later has decided to part ways with it since the storage yard where he rents is closing. Let's se if she'll fire up and rip! Also, @ 41:12 in this video, i go over the conclusion of the 1970 Monte Carlo.
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I have no interest in the boat but as a mechanic for 40+ years I have to tell you how amazed I am by your videos.
Your knowledge and understanding of every system is truly impressive.
What really blows my mind is your willingness to do what it takes to accomplish these tasks under the worst of conditions. Your troubleshooting techniques always follow the most useful and logical order, eliminating the need to throw unnecessary parts at it. I would be interested in knowing where you received your formal education. Your common sense approach is far from common.
I like Jen and Gus as crucial members of your team, she is a keeper 👍. Thanks for the tips and entertainment.
That's a blast from the past!! I used to be an Ultranautics dealer in San Diego in the 80's and 90's. Ultranautics Corp manufactured the WetBike and SeaFlash, as well as the Jetstar. That Jetstar is a cool find. They are a riot to drive! It has a 60 hp Suzuki powerhead from the 80's. (Same powerhead that is used in their 50 and 60 hp outboards. Parts for the carbs and engine are readily available online and at Suzuki dealers. It uses the same jet pump assembly as the Wetbike and SeaFlash. The engines and jet drives are really bulletproof! I hope you fix it up and have fun with it!
I can't stress this enough, this channel should be in the millions subs due to this amazing content, love the energy and the variety, lets keep those vids coming!!!
In the lifetime of this channel I have no doubt these guys will smash the 1m sub mark.
Was super sweet hearing it switch from 1 cylinder to 2 like that
I love how Jenn is always positive when you drag another piece of garbage into the yard. I need one of those! lol
@Tango Downx2 Mmmkay buddy.
i just love Jenn
Great team work!
Hahaha good for Jenn giving the support that her lovely husband needs
@@edgarhernandez1060 Yes...it is a team effort. A team everyone seems to enjoy watching...the good moods make all the difference.
I've never seen a mechanic who can repair everything from bicycles to airplanes. You are extremely sincere and loving with your profession. I was very surprised that the machine has been dead for years and you start it so easily and even get the work done from it. I want to be your student.
That boat is a keeper as it’s unusual and very well built. You are so lucky to have Jen as she puts up with you dragging anything home but Gus steals the show. Well done guys. Cheers Stuart 🇦🇺
Oh boy
I mean all the stuff he does bring home makes him decent money from content
Wise man once told me happy wife happy life
@@snowblowerman5115 I hope so because he puts the hard work in. Cleaning them up and getting them running is the hardest part but also adds the most value. 👍👍
@Tango Downx2 It’s not weak, it’s called love and respect.
Just found your channel. Great content! I’m finishing a full restoration of a 1969 StarCraft that was in my family since new and sat for 27 years. I gutted it to bones last year and rebuilt all the floors and furniture. Last weekend I rebuilt steering and new controls. Reinforced steel plated transom and mounted a nice 20hp Johnson I got for 359.00 from a marina trade in. All that’s left is a fuel pump that’s not getting gas through. So your video got me gassed up to head over and finish it up tomorrow and finally get it on the water. Haven’t ridden in it since I was 8. I’m 47 now. Lol. But the boat now has a new life instead of becoming scrap. And I’m only into it for about 600.00.
But glad I found your channel. Right up my alley of content. ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
found you 5 days ago and nearly watching 3 hours a day ur videos. love ur stuff and your know how. greetings from germany
Amazing your organizational skills. Everything stored in the right area. The way you go about your work is amazing to watch.
Dude how are you pumping out such prime time content so quickly. You're an animal and the videos are top notch.
Exactly!
Do stuff. Film it. Post as needed to suit scheduled updates. If not needed, save till needed, then post. It's that simple.
@@mwilliamshs I it were "that simple" everyone would do it.
I’m pretty sure he doesn’t sleep!
Love your stuff....hey give us some leo content...
Absolutely amazing. That think looked totally "finished" and your No Nonsense Knowhow got it brought back to life. I am so impressed with your abundance of knowledge.👍
I just did an interview to work for CSX. I'm hoping to land the job and become a Freight Conductor. Maybe one day I'll be coming through there. Love the channel.
Switch to passenger. if you got the job you already know why haha
Man your production is swift and consistent. I'm a Fitter Machinist and Heavy Mine Fitter here in Australia 🇦🇺 It's so bloody refreshing watching a guy that really knows his shit! Also your gal is golden. Lotsa love ❤️
My shop does all types of carb repair, I found that using napa dip tank cleaner works best for us, turn your heat to max ,the flash point on the cleaner is quite high so their is not much danger of fire.
I just have to say , you are the fastest trouble shooter I’ve seen outa all the TH-cam stuff I watch ! I love your style and attitude of getting shit done. Thanks for ALL the content. You are a machine and I can see why Jen will go anywhere in anything with you cuz she has no doubt that whatever problems happen, you got it handled.
Been watching him for about 2 years already. This guy can fix almost everything and has all the tools in the world lol.
Really love these videos, very entertaining and quite educational and informative. Great content!
"Ran good when parked"
Nice how your experience and knowledge gets your projects done at a minimal cost with boat meaning ( bust out another thousand). Lots of admiration and your videos are fantastic, jen and gus are icing on the cake.
There’s something so satisfying about watching someone bring an old car or boat back to it’s former glory!
Great video! All these boats hold up surprisingly well, can't wait for more lol!
I know it's an older video, but let's give it a shot anyways: with ultrasonic cleaner you can use solvents to clean oily parts better. You can do that by filling the cleaner with water as usual and then place a glass beaker or cup into it filled with a non-polar solvent (e.g. gasoline), then place the dirty parts into the beaker and run the cleaning cycle. It's just important to remember not to put flammable liquids directly into the ultrasonic cleaner as that can be a fire hazard. We used ultrasonic cleaners all the time in the lab to clean dirty instrument parts with wide variety of solvents.
NNKH is quickly becoming my favorite YT channel. Consistently excellent content.
It's nice how you can see through all the dirt. When I saw it at the beginning I thought 'who would buy that piece of crap?'. But it ran so sweet in the end!
awesome as always! I have a larger Ultrasonic cleaner with heating element and use a degreaser in in mixed with water. 30 mins usually and carbs and all sorts of small motor parts come out beautiful. Love all your episodes. You guys are great
Eversince i started watching content from this channel, my life hasnt been the same. Its so addictive.
Thanks man for your time and great effort. Keep it up
Great channel love all your guys content…. FYI With cleaning carburetors and stuff plugged up a old timer in our rc flying club showed me a great tool to use. Seams to easy but work’s amazing on multiple things is to take a old crock pot and fill it with straight antifreeze (green kind) and turn it on and let it soak overnight and all your parts come out looking brand new and super clean and it doesn’t hurt and of your parts ….. we use it a lot to free up old rc plane engines and carburetors that’s seized up. Hopefully this trick helps make your jobs easier
Driving with the foot had me cracking up! 😂😂
Jen’s “another one” had my dying. Great sport. I usually get “Nope not another one” Great video
im 60 now so alot of your content strikes my soul i grew up in early 80s i remember them brand new they cost more than my papertroute savings could buy.but i saw lots of familys having fun with them boats.my family had a 59 ugly boat i remember like yelling ....floor it dad and it coudnt get my 7 year old body outa water.just when i was almost up the engine would sputter it was a piece of crap.but it was fun and memory i will never forget it.i remember my dad tryed everything changing spark plugs coil ect but mom finally said shes not a keeper i rember that.but dad was stubborn he kept trying to prove her wrong.it was a turd but i give him respect for that.many hot days he worked hard to make it better
oh man I LOVE that little boat. I never owned a boat before but would love to get one, like that one. Mainly to fish in tight areas lol. But that boat I could drive in my private lake.
There's an old saying, "you don't own a boat, the boat owns you."
If everybody had an easy in and easy out boat ramp like you and access pretty much whenever you want it, there'd be more happy boat owners. I truly envy you during the good parts of the year. Great video. I'd keep that little jewel if it were mine.
Love how you check to see if the engine is locked up or not before doing anything else, not many people do that anymore! Keep it up love the video!
New subscriber, love watching your videos. All the projects are amazing, but the most amazing thing is your wife’s patience. She’s an absolute saint. If I rolled into the driveway with this boat, she’d have the doors locked making me take it back before I could come in lol
Man I really enjoy ur videos I just can’t wait for the next one to come out lol I like the way you just rip into it and get it done it’s the way a lot of us old Country farm raised make it work kind of people have done it for years and it’s good to see it’s still around anyway I just really enjoy ur videos and I’ll be waiting for ur next one thanks for sharing have a good one and give Gus’s an exter treat he deserves it he is such a cool pup just love his life jacket and the way ya pick him up lmao
I discovered your channel by seeing the listing of this boat on Facebook. Been addicted to your content ever since. Congrats on the success.
Thanks Scott I appreciate you subscribing and checking out the videos!
New sub here! Someone may have mentioned, but use Purple Power or Mean Green in the ultrasonic cleaner. It works great and is not as corrosive as the parts cleaner. Also, turn the heat (TC) function on 10min or so before you soak anything to warm up the solution. Side note: the heater DOES NOT shut off when the timer ends, so make sure to turn it off or unplug. Great video by the way!
Came for the boat, but loved the Monte Carlo. Friend had similar in High School in 1980s. That sound brought back awesome memories.
Another cool boat revival, your knowledge is killer on all things that make stuff work... .and the hoard of parts don't hurt either! Keep it going and great job Chris... have a good one!
Hi mate sorry comment not about your boat as I've just found your channel. I'm from the UK and I'm now retired, I was a diesel mechanic one way we used to start diesel engines in the cold or if out of service for years was a rag soaked in oil held in the air intake lol. Also a British engine maker called Gardiner not only would they run away they have been known to run away backwards and run on oil out of the pan and difficult to stop before they went BANG. Love the videos ☝
I’d love to be your next door neighbor your hands are magic my friend.
When I was broke down on the water this summer. There was a boat very similar to this broke down right next to me. Little outboard power head on a jet pump . Cool setup. What a score!
Your content is always awesome the quality and quantity is unreal you should do Summernats one year here in Australia
I love how you work on stuff because its exactly how I like to do things. Get it running with minimum effort, and use force when getting impatient haha.
The ultrasonic cleaner that Darren (Mustie1) has is a laboratory grade one and I think it packs a little more oomph that the Harbor Freight models. He's had some good results with his.
Must’ve also uses carb dip or solvents in his
I'm loving this guy's enthusiasm, just the type of brother I would appreciate.
Awesome video. Will we see any more of this boat?
Thanks. And no this will probably be the only video on it. Not a big fan of the boat. It's kind of a turd and rides a little rough on the choppy water
yea these boats are cool, but rough and need more power.
@@NoNonsenseKnowHow I would love to buy it from you, I had one when I was a kid. It would be a great project.
Calling it now. This guy will have 1m followers soon. Great content, this guy is someone you’d just want to hang out with, drink beer, and wrench on stuff.
Thank you for the entertaining video, love the content and of course love seeing Jen and Gus...
I've never seen a boat like that.., but would like to see you use a proper fuel tank for safety sake..
I have a 1990 bass buggy pontoon with the original 90 Johnson on it. I was recently having a issue with it only running only on 2 of the 3 carbs. From watching your video you helped me out fixing the issue. Now "ol girl" is running like a champ again lol 😆
$10,500 is a good deal for the buyer of the Monte.
Thanks so much for the amazing videos. Enjoy all of you in them . Such a happy little family. Can't stop watching your videos. Make me motivated to get my own stuff going. Love you guys. 👍👍👋👌
27:03 “Nice boat” Hahahha. Such a big differents you made on this boat and its awsome to see how you did it. Enjoyed this very Much!
you’re videos are so well put together, much much better than watching tv
So cool Gussie is my favorite dog on the Tube.. so cool that little jetboat those are SO much fun, especially on a lake.. awesome video
This is hands down the best boat channel I've found. You are a rock solid apocalypse mechanic.
Most entertaining and real mechanic on TH-cam
Gotta tell you: I got that cleaner from HF and use Gunk Carb Cleaner in it. Heat it and keep resetting the timer (which should be longer). It cleaned my motorcycle carb perfectly. Thanks for your channel and your great sense of humor and know how. Cheers from Ohio!
I just found your channel weeks ago and am spoiled by this upload. Thanks dawg
That Chem Dip is good stuff. That’s all I use for cleaning carburetors. Just make sure to remove rubber parts like o-rings and such. It will make them swell. Also, once the parts are clean, you can rinse them with water and blow them off.
Something else you can use to clean the seat of a carb is a q tip in a drill with a dab of baking soda or valve grinding compound.Keep up the good work,enjoy your videos.Channels like yours is what makes TH-cam worth watching.
I once went to a friend of a friend's lakefront house and upon arriving, found that there was a small boat in the garage. I thought it would be cool to spend the weekend riding in that little boat, so I asked him about it. His reply was in the lines of _"This thing has been sitting for over 20 years. Feel free to try to get the engine to run, good luck at it. If you get it t work, you can have it for the weekend. I'm off to the lake, see ya"._
The engine was a two-stroke Johnson 25 outboard. I removed the spark plug, dropped a little oil in the cylinder, tried to pull the recoil to see if the engine was seized. It wasn't. So I cleaned the spark plug, drove to the gas station, bought two-stroke oil and gas, mixed it, fueled up, remounted the spark plug and tried firing up the engine. It ran on the first pull. There was nothing wrong with the engine, it just sat there for over 20 years waiting for someone to fire it up, and ran beautifully on the first attempt.
So we all had a great weekend on the lake, with an unexpected boat to play with.
bro, you do reverse with no tires on that carriage, marvelous, and jane is so kind when you bring that trash at home.
Dude I love your style, you have a great supportive crew and your going to go thru life better than most could ever imagine....
Damn this was awesome. cleaned the hell out that boat and 12,600 for that car in its condition is solid
drove one of these when i was a kid. It's basically a jetski with a bench seat.
Great vid as always ! Love the way Jen makes it CLEAR how she's feeling ! eg starts the car and does the Hmmph .. You tell him Jen !!
your wife is a happy smiling person great energy cant say the same for most lol and she seems supportive
I see you were in the DELAWARE right at the Trenton makes bridge , I am from Trenton but don't live there now. Really enjoy all the effort you put into your vids and projects.
Great watching the jet boat restoration. We ski on the Delaware every Saturday, surprised when I saw familiar scenery. Maybe I’ll see you on the river some time.
Mix half Simple green with half water. Works well. We used to use it at the bicycle shop to clean all sorts of greasy, nasty parts.
My dad did many carb rebuilds over the years and he used a carb cleaner solvent for at least 24 hours, the best way to truly clean a carb.
I drove one of those in the 80s. It was a rental from a jetski place. Super fun little boat.
Another one for the books, really enjoy your channel! Gives someone like me with little know-how the courage to take on projects, really appreciate that. Keep on keeping on.
Hey! I know that bridge! lol
Great video, can't wait to watch more videos. Thanks!
You got a diamond in the rough there. In great shape. Hope you get to enjoy it for a long time.
2👍👍for the sheet metal boat storage cover. And another for waking up the starter with air hammer therapy 👍. It ran good when parked ..... so good that someone messed with the carbs 😁. Runs good now, Nice work.
That’s the perfect boat, glad to see it restored and working again.
Great refurb and great video! Looks like a lot of fun to drive! Very glad I stumbled across this video. I have now subscribed to your channel.
Idk what I liked more the boat fix or Gus. He’s one cute puppy !!! ❤️🐶🥰
One of my favorite channels to watch. Good dude.
you can't be in the middle of the yard you're gonna get scooped up by a hawk hahahahaha what a cute doggie nice work on the boat man you really know your stuff
I have a 15L ultrasonic cleaner and I run Chemdip in it. I don't know about other people but my parts come out great. Just rinse the cleaner off, make sure all passages are clear and good to go. I try to snag old lawn mowers, tillers ect. that have been sitting around a long time and I always have good luck with my ultrasonic cleaner and Chemdip. The combinations heat, ultrasonic and cleaner do a great job. Great videos, I enjoy seeing what you get a hold of next.
Man this video was perfect, watched one the last leg of a business trip. This looks great and makes me want to get back out and work on my boat lol
Hi, we run Ultrasonic baths with our injector business in Australia and we make our own cleaning solution with potash and water . Also depending on what i am cleaning clothes washing powder works great as well for car parts!
I learned a while back that pure lemon juice works wonders on dirty carbs. Heat it up to near boiling and let the parts soak as it cools back down. Haven't tried it with an ultrasonic cleaner, but I bet it'd be amazing.
Dude, you Jenn & Gus Rock, Love you guys.
Also Harbor Frieght has a solution for the Ultra Sonic cleaner!
At the back of the boat put the speedo sensor in the down position for speedo to work as it appears to be up , great vid,
You seem to find the coolest, oddball projects 😎.
This is a fun one,..... great vid.
One finger in the carb and five toes on the wheel 😅 Love it!
“Ran fine in the driveway”, that’s a boat for ya! LOL
The towing part had me dying lol
I have the same exact ultra sonic cleaner and I pour the chem dip directly in the ultra sonic cleaner and run stuff for about 4 cycles, you also HAVE to turn the heater on the cleaner and let it heat up first!!!!!!!!! If you don’t have heat it doesn’t clean nearly as well!!! Once u use the ultra sonic cleaner correctly you will LOVE it!!
For float needle seats I like a q-tip with fine valve lapping paste in a drill. The same with a wooden kebab skewer works great too. Awesome content. Thank you
The internal portion of these jet boat pumps is most often ignored but smoothing and polishing can cut cavitation and increase water flow I worked these things for many seasons
I read the comments today and learned something new about cleaning carbs
Would love to find a small boat like that! Love it! Better still, loved the Monte Carlo views! I had a 1971 Monte Carlo I restored and was a great car; sold it to a friend for his wife & then they sold years later...Saw it at later & asked the owner how it was & they loved it! Your video brought back a lot of great memories...Thanks! -Scott- :-)
This is the first video I’ve watched from your channel, and I must say this is some top tier content. I love this stuff!
Also I’m extremely jealous and impressed with the tools and equipment you have. I love tinkering with motors and fixing stuff, however I can tell I’m not as knowledgeable as you are but would love to be some day. It would be my dream to have enough money to buy some small project vehicles and mess with them like this. I have a 1981 GS 750 that I’m in the process of restoring, and a couple cars. Hopefully I can get a small boat soon.
Thanks for the content!
Awesome boat. I think this episode really defines "NoNonsenseKnowHow" by showing that not all flat tires come back to life and not all carbs can just be sprayed with carb cleaner without taking them apart. Nice and thorough.
lol at the smile and "another one?" then the wave to the neighbors.