Custom/Hybrid WDK REV bottom with WDK RN topdeck(For my wife) is done!

[McDog]

I got a WDK pole and a WDK diablo hood and nose piece to finish off the package. I even got some WDK hood hooks from 615. WDK steering and WDK bracket.

I have to:

Defoam

Install a rear exhaust

Fill the leaking bondline

Repair the cracked bulkhead

Repair the cracked nose/nose rail

Repair the big hole in the side from a side exhaust

Fill the fuel fill area on the nose

New footholds

Polystyrene foam

PPFF and probably another front ankle hold like my superfreak

Need a motor

 

[McDog]

Deturfed and cut out the tray today

 

[Idok]

you see the motor I hav for sale? or are you looking for a monster..

just call jeff for a bracket...he has them in stock, you'll have it in 7-10 days

 

[Billybo455]

best looking pole ever!

 

[Billybo455]

oh, and i'll take the steering if you don't want to deal with crappy wdk steering

 

[McDog]

you see the motor I hav for sale? or are you looking for a monster..

just call jeff for a bracket...he has them in stock, you'll have it in 7-10 days

Tempting on the motor but all I really need is a shortblock. I sold her perfectly good brand new ported 701 to buy a big bore which didn't work out. I hate to go backwards.

I already have a Wamiltons bracket but not a WDK bracket. I got such a good deal on it I decided I could deal with one non WDK piece on the ski. I'm getting rid of the WDK footholds too.

 

[Sanoman]

Good idea on the footholds!

 

[mademan9]

Good project. Whats the weight of the wdk pole?

 

[Waternut]

Well it's guaranteed to weigh less than that hood...lol

 

[McDog]

That hood weighs 18 pounds!!! I haven't weighed the pole but it feels pretty heavy too. Between the two they will eat up the weight savings for the hull being 90 pounds.

 

[chad]

do you wanna sell the old wdk footholds??

 

[McDog]

I defoamed today. It actually came out pretty easy but what I found was disappointing. It was all dripping wet. All the lines and some of the inserts came out. 5200 was loose everywhere it was used. I don't know what was used to put the inserts in but it came loose on a few of them. The inserts are all rusty. I may find some aluminum and redo them. WTF? Who uses steel for hull inserts? WDK, that's who. The bulkhead was really thin and ALL busted up. I will have to reinforce the bulkhead on both sides probably to get it all sealed up. I have to redo every tube in the tray. I started to cut out the reinforcement on the sides so that I can seal the bondline all around. That's when my Harbor Freight multitool took a dump.

So the problem was that the bondline wasn't sealed or glued or whatever right. The tray was all assembled crappy. The bulkhead was too thin. Butti used a fiberglass strip to seal off the bondline but the water leaked in under the motor compartment tray. The motor compartment tray is a good idea for hull construction but it was poorly executed on this hull and the water leaking through the bondline just came back around and under it and back into the ski. I have a lot of work ahead of me.

Now I have to seal up the bondline all around the ski and I plan to put some carbon on the sides after I seal it up. I went and bought a stainless sink piece and a rubber flange to get the rear exhaust in Waterdawg style. I'm not sure what I'm going to do on the footholds yet.

 

[McDog]

more pics

 

[McDog]

I went ahead and pulled the motor compartment tray today. It was cracked at one of the motor mounts and all the inserts were rusting out because they were regular steel. Half the inserts were popped out anyway from the glue coming loose. The others popped up with one scrape of a wood chisel. Now I can reinforce it from the underside and replace all the inserts with stainless steel. Water kept running out from under the tray too so I knew there was wet foam under there. There was also tons of stinky mold. These pics were after I hosed it all down with bleach. I put regular 5200 all around the bondline so it can start setting up. I plan to fill the rest with microballons and epoxy and a strip of 1208 biax. I'll probably microballon and epoxy the tray back in too. Then I will lay some carbon on the sides after the tray is back in and reinforce/repair the bulkhead. This is turning into a nightmare but it should be solid as a rock when I'm done...whenever that is.

 

[McDog]

I cut on the sink drain and cut a hole for the rear exhaust too. That stainless steel bitch took about 8 dremel cutting discs. Three of which were the expensive reinforced ones.

 

[chad]

those nonreinforced dremel discs sting when they fly apart and hit you !

 

[McDog]

I convinced my wife to paint it black and put a wrap with multicolored stars on it instead of painting it pink. I guess it won't be pinky 2.0 afterall.

 

[sportfish258]

Well you can't say, this ski has every thing but the kitchen sink ........ very creative. Let me know if you need some metal For your new inserts , place right down the road should have what ever thickness you need.

 

[Sanoman]

Pretty good there on word play sportfish!

Dam Shane,you got your work cut out for you....

 

[Pablo]

"Won't cost that much...won't take too long."

-S. McDonald circa 2004-present