Recent content by hmk

I have the external tie bar with hyraulics. I am now thinking its the toe position. I am assuming they are suppossed to be parallel and I remember thinking while sitting on the lift one looked off. Now thats in in hibernation I am going to give that a closer look. I don't believe there is...

I have run it with drives and tabs up at top end on smooth water without problem. I haven't run with both drives and tabs down lately on smooth water. I did it once when I first got the boat at the end of 07 season and no list was noted then. Water was pretty smooth that time only problem...

LOL I like the passenger weight distriubtion question, but no thats not it. I do thank you guys for the ideas and will get out to the boat within a few weeks to recheck these things. I am curious too, about checking the hull. Right now its in winter storage on my trailer so...

The drives are counter rotating, no steering input needed, it just leans. Keeping the boat straight isn't a problem but the steering wheel isn't centered when going straight its at about 2-3 o'clock. The drive toe looks slightly in-toed, I didn't examined it closely but it does have a...

I have tried tacking directly 90 degrees into a wave and it doesn't list. However, when its all chop it lists coming, going, etc, and it doesn't seem to have that much effect which way I am heading. I really noticed on a run to Put in Bay on Lake Erie it happened both ways on the same day...

I have a 2002 353 Fastech and have had it since end of summer 07. It runs great in relatively smooth water but when it gets choppy it always seems to list portside. I noticed this the first year but attributed it to needing to learn how to handle the boat. That wasn't the problem cause it...