The Jet Boat Progress Update: A Journey to the Water's Edge

As we stand before our freshly prepared jet boat, it's hard not to feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. The setup is looking sleek and clean, with the fill neck and engine proudly on display. We've taken the time to thoroughly inspect the arrangement, ensuring that everything is in place and ready for its maiden voyage. The log manifold will play a crucial role in our testing process, providing us with an exhaust system to try out before we can officially get our boat on the water.

We're now moving forward with the final stages of preparation, carefully tightening every bolt and securing all loose ends. The engine is back in place, ready for its next iteration – scooting it into position and ensuring that everything is properly secured. Once this is complete, we'll start buttoning up the rest of the boat, bringing us one step closer to our goal.

Our attention has turned to the polyethylene underbelly of the boat, providing a protective barrier against scratches and abrasions. This layer of protection comes in handy when navigating rough waters or sand bars, ensuring that our hull doesn't get damaged along the way. We're using three-quarter inch thick material, which provides sufficient coverage without weighing us down.

We've decided to use this log manifold as a testbed for our exhaust system. It's time to put everything into action and see how it all works together. The engine is primed, ready to unleash its fury upon the water. With every passing day, we're one step closer to making this vision a reality.

As we continue with the preparations, we can't help but think about what comes next – our first foray onto the water. We'll need to pull the entire boat apart, removing the engine and flipping it upside down to apply the protective poly layer. It's going to be a couple of day job, but we're up for the challenge.

The Poly Layer: A Protective Barrier

We've found that the polyethylene underbelly is an essential component in protecting our hull from damage. By applying this material to the underside of the boat, we can ensure that scratches and abrasions are minimized. It's a simple yet effective solution that provides peace of mind when navigating rough waters.

The process involves drilling numerous holes across the bottom of the boat, with the only holding mechanism being a series of bolts and nuts. This may seem daunting, but we're confident in our ability to tackle it head-on. Once complete, this protective layer will provide us with added security as we take on the water.

Once the poly is applied, we'll begin reassembling the boat. The engine will be refitted into its new position, secured and bolted down firmly. We've made significant progress in recent days – from installing a coolant return line to completing the wiring harness for the engine.

The Fuel System: A Final Touch

With the fuel system nearly complete, we're turning our attention to other areas of the boat. The steering wheel has been sourced from James' vessel and will serve as a temporary solution until we can procure a more permanent solution. We've secured it firmly in place, ready for testing.

As we bring everything together, we must acknowledge the numerous components that make up this remarkable machine. From the impellers inside the pump to the final adjustments on the trailer, every part plays a crucial role in our success. With each passing day, we're drawing closer to making this vision a reality.

The Trailer: A Final Check

We still have one last hurdle to overcome – setting up the trailer for transport. This is an essential step in ensuring that everything comes together smoothly. We'll need to make adjustments as needed, ensuring that our jet boat is securely fastened and ready for its maiden voyage.

With this final check complete, we're now poised on the cusp of our next major milestone. Our jet boat progress update will be published soon, detailing all that's been accomplished thus far. Until then, we'll keep pushing forward – driven by a relentless desire to see this project come to fruition.

The Countdown Begins

We've reached a critical juncture in our journey – the stage is set for our first water test. With every passing day, we're drawing closer to realizing our vision. We can barely contain our excitement as we stand before this sleek and powerful machine.

It's not going unnoticed that there's still work to be done – from finalizing the motor mounts to securing a permanent seat. The steering wheel, although temporary, has been secured firmly in place, and we're confident it will hold us over until further notice. With the engine primed and ready, every bolt tightened, and all systems functioning as intended, we stand ready for what's next.

We'll be publishing our jet boat progress update soon, detailing everything that's happened thus far. Until then, keep an eye on this space for updates from our journey – it won't be long before we hit the water.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys we are continuing progress on the k-swap jet boat build in the last videos you guys saw we got this thing fired up and we are really anxious to try to get this thing onto the water now that we confirmed that she is running but there's still a couple things we have to get done before this will see the water as you can see we got the engine scooted forward here we got that guy unbolted so we could kind of access the jet pump here we have to fully get the jet pump unit bolted down to the hull and right now we're getting ready to cut up some stainless pieces of all thread right here into individual studs those guys will thread down into these holes right there and we can get that fully bolted down there's a rubber gasket underneath and then that will be good to go then after that we have to reassemble the jet pump unit there are some impellers that need to go inside of there right now we don't have any of the internals in the pump just for mock-up purposes but we'll get the jet pump fully assembled again and then we can go ahead and actually seal this guy up to the back of the transom here because there is a small gap all the way around the jet pump unit that's how you actually install this guy just slides through and then you use a marine style silicone to get all that sealed up so no water can get in and we don't sink our boat and then once that is done we can go ahead and get the engine scooted back into place get our little drive shaft hooked up and then you know the power train and jet pump unit will be all good to go and then it will just be dressing up everything else around that right now we're working on getting the fuel system completely done getting all of our lines finalized and good to go there so y has been working on that but yeah i'm gonna go ahead and start cutting these pieces of all thread and get our jet pump unit all bolted up to the hole so we got the jet pump pulled back apart here getting everything ready for the final assembly and what i realized is once this all goes back together it's gonna be really hard to work on this uh notch i made for the reverse bucket here if i want to change anything so in the last video i showed how i knocked that guy out to fit the bucket nice and i talked about possibly sealing in these tubes right here and at first i wasn't going to do anything about it but i decided i do want to try to close all this in and now is the time to do that because once this jet pump assembly goes back together i'd rather not pull it apart to ever work on this so what we got going on here is i'm gonna go ahead and cut a piece of aluminum like a long rectangle i'm gonna curve the edges down to follow this contour i'm going to outline this right here and i will round the corners to follow this shape and i'm basically going to make a plate that will press up into here and it won't sit up to this point it'll be up here a ways and kind of out of the way i'm also going to finish welding this piece in from the back side so that's nice and solid because you can see right there where that added piece was so i'm going to go ahead and cut a piece to fit right in there and get it all sealed up and ground away and then that will be done so we can get the jet pump fully bolted down get it sealed up and hopefully we don't have to take this thing apart for a while so i just got that welded up from the back side not too bad for being on my back here my neck is killing me my biggest fear is building up some slag on the end of the rod and not getting it to dip and then that end of the rod falling onto me and having molten hot aluminum on me so i was doing my best to avoid that luckily i did not get burned this is the piece i got cut out right here to fill in this gap it still needs some final finessing and shaving but this guy oh that's hot but this guy will press up into there if it's pretty good as you can see i'm not going to do it right now because it's so hot but that will follow that shape and i'll go ahead and tap that up into place and get it where i like it and then i'll weld that guy solid and then i'll do some final angle grinding and we'll be all good to go even though i have to do some fabric on the back of the boat here at least we didn't have to weld the whole thing because that would have sucked so all right so after a ton of welding and grinding i am very happy with how that came out she's all sealed up and ready to go and uh just in time you look right over here alec just showed up and we have ourselves a trailer so this is a two jet ski trailer that they don't need anymore he actually just put this thing up for sale and yeah will work perfect for us this is what they use to convert to work for the jet boats yeah so i actually don't know the whole process yet but i know you take off these two middle pieces of wood and then you have to readjust the side ones to make them fit but this is going to be your other problem up here you might just have to cut this front weld it back here a little bit and then kind of remodify this yeah simple sure you can get it done what happened to the jet skis oh we still got it we just got a single trailer oh okay just so now they're on their own trailer yeah individually exactly yeah cool well that works out perfect because we're just about ready to get this thing on the water and we have no way to transport it well here you go man yeah this worked out great alec also sent me some measurements of the width of the trailer it's about 103 inches from uh outer edge of each tire uh because we didn't know if this trailer would fit in between our lift because right now we have no way of lifting the jet boat up except with our lift so luckily it will fit in between the lift our lift's like 110 inches so once we're ready to actually put the boat in the water we'll go up with the lift modify our trailer stick it under the boat and we should be good to go bang dude you're going to sell us a trailer with a busted wheel that's 100 bucks off right there nah it'll work perfect calm down really calm down oh that's it you get higher than that oh there you go that's nice all right guys just doing some final welding in the jet boat here before we get the pump and assembly all the way back together we actually have the housing out of this thing just to clear up some more room to finish welding up these bungs right here so this guy right here is our dash 12 and that is our water coming in to cool the engine and then this is a dash 16 and that is going to be our water going back out and our thought behind this is the high pressure water coming in through this dash 12 will be dropped as it comes out of a bigger opening on the dash 16 there because as the rpm goes up we're assuming the water pressure coming out of that spigot is going to go up as pressure builds up in the drive unit so to help combat that we have a bigger exit hole so as the higher pressure comes in the water doesn't have any trouble getting out and it doesn't hurt something inside of our engine once again it's a whole experimental process here we probably should get a coolant pressure gauge to monitor it but we're just going to take it out and kind of you know keep an eye on things and see how it goes but getting that guy fully welded up i just have to finish that one and we'll be good to go there this guy right here is for an air bleed there's a little brass fitting on the front of the housing and that connects to that guy so the guys over scott waterjet messaged me about that so i guess that takes care of maybe any air pockets that build up underneath the drive as it's pulling in water that is my guess on it um but yeah that's about it boys so i'm gonna go ahead and get this finished welded up i got this nice little uh access to my tig pedal through the back of the hole here and i just got to get up and underneath and then we'll be good to go and we can go ahead and start cleaning this surface off down here and get the housing back on and start sealing everything up for the final time and hopefully get this thing on the water here soon all right guys it is about that time we're getting ready to bolt the intake housing up to the bottom of the boat here hopefully for the final time so i just went ahead and got all these surfaces nice and cleaned off just took some alcohol and got all this guy cleaned off got the jet block right there cleaned off we got our gasket all cleaned up and something that scott waterjet recommends is that we take some of the marine adhesive that came with our pump which is right here and we're going to apply a thin layer on the jet block right here we'll put our gasket over that another thin layer on top of the rubber gasket and then we'll put our intake housing onto that guy right there and then we'll use all of our new stainless steel studs that we just made along with all new stainless hardware and then she'll be bolted down and then from there we can go ahead and assemble the jet pump and then we can get to sealing the back of this thing up with the same marine adhesive right here so go ahead and get to it hopefully this thing doesn't have to come apart for any other reason all right guys our jet pump is all bolted down to the hull here we should be good to go um right now we are getting the back of it all taped up so we can apply our marine silicone right here so right now it's down there getting her all masked up and we're going to be applying that silicone from this side first then we'll let that cure and then get some applied to the other side and get this thing all sealed up just got the outside kind of sealed up here so we have to give this silicone about 10 minutes to start to cure then we can take the tape off then we'll go ahead and run some more along the inside well that is looking pretty good that's all they used to seal this thing up you just run it through fill it with some silicone and we should be good to go boys we're just sending it on the inside here no tape i don't even think we need it no let's lay my speed down we don't need her sinking dude don't let any water through there no promises i ain't no engineer but well just lay as thick as you can i don't think she's gonna sink i'll tell you that we got bilge pumps for a reason we're gonna put three of them in here we've been letting this marine silicone kind of dry up for a bit now it's been about an hour it's starting to get pretty firm and boys it is in there our boat is officially sealed up right now we could technically put this in the water and in theory it should float our only hole is that one right there for the steering cable to go through since we still have to get the motor pushed back in place and then we'll get the cable ran back through but boys she is fully sealed and she should be water tight got the pump sticking out the back here check it out we just have the reverse bucket off of this guy uh just for when we went to seal all that up but you can see the silicone goes all the way around and dude it came out so freaking good i'm so excited guys jet boats definitely a lot of work to build but i think it's going to pay off once we finally get this thing in the water which should hopefully be in the next couple days right now wyatt's working on some battery cables over there getting everything finalized our fuel lines are all done and ready to go so that came out really clean look at that setup back there with the fill neck and everything so it's coming together guys i'm pumped so now that all of that is sealed up and ready to go we're going to go ahead and get the engine scooted back into place here get it bolted down and just keep buttoning some things up and keep getting it closer and closer to being able to go onto the water like i said i think we're going to try to use this log manifold and just rig up an exhaust for now just to test it we still need to get our mounts either painted or powder coated but for right now we're going to send it on those guys just try to keep water off of them so they don't rust but we do have to eventually flip the whole boat upside down to do the poly underneath it which is up on the roof over here so that is all the plastic poly that bolts to the bottom of our boat that just helps if you want to you know jump over sand bars or if you're hitting rocks and stuff it just helps the boat slide across things and it doesn't beat up the bare aluminum it's kind of like a big layer of protection and that is three quarter inch thick i believe so we're testing the boat just to make sure everything works properly and what sucks is once you know everything checks out and we get to test it we'll be so excited to go drive it around and stuff but we actually have to bring it back here and we're going to pull the whole boat apart pull the engine completely out of this thing we have to flip the whole boat upside down and do the poly on the bottom and that is a big process probably a couple day job because we have to drill so many holes and literally the only thing that holds the poly to the bottom though is a nut and bolt all across the bottom of the boat there's like several hundred of them so that's not gonna be a fun task but we figured once the engine comes out for that we'll finalize like the motor mounts and things like that and then once the poly is on and it goes back together that's going to be the final assembly of the jet boat here but we just want to get it ready for a water test because she is so close all right guys i think that's going to about do it for right now we are so close to getting this thing on the water i think by the next video we will have our first water test as you can see we got everything sealed up we got the motor back into place here got our drive shaft back in there just got to get it fully tightened up we still just have to do a coolant return line but that'll be super simple we just got to go from this fitting right here and out to the back of the boat we got our air bleed line done we got the coolant feed done into our little sand trap the fuel system like i said earlier is completely done we just have a feed line that's already made this goes from this regulator right into our rail we cleaned up the wiring harness on the engine while i got a whole bunch of wiring done come around over here if you got all of our wires coming off the battery so we got the main power to the starter we got our alternator wire we got our main ground we have the alternator on it is tightened plugged in ready to go ready to charge we just have to get some more hardware for the engine mounts we need to kind of get them out the fuel tank right now if we plan on you know driving it somewhat we have to figure out a seat still a couple seats and then when alec was over here he actually dropped this off for us this is the steering wheel off of james's boat and uh we're bawling out thank you james so this guy will uh be our temporary steering wheel she'll go on like so if you go look at the back nice got the steering done ready to go just gotta get that reverse bucket back on and tighten the wheel down we got the cable ran through it's all sealed up done and ready to go and then we still have to just put the impellers inside of the pump and that's about it oh and then we have to get the trailer ready to go we have to make some adjustments to that trailer set it down hopefully we can get that knocked out tomorrow as well so we still have a solid day ahead of us and then you know we're hoping in the next two days by thursday or friday we will have this boat in the water for its first test but uh that is going to be your jet boat progress update video for now thank you guys for watching this thing has been a ton of work but we are getting so close so next video guys i think we'll be in the water hope you guys enjoyed and we'll see you later bye youwhat's up guys we are continuing progress on the k-swap jet boat build in the last videos you guys saw we got this thing fired up and we are really anxious to try to get this thing onto the water now that we confirmed that she is running but there's still a couple things we have to get done before this will see the water as you can see we got the engine scooted forward here we got that guy unbolted so we could kind of access the jet pump here we have to fully get the jet pump unit bolted down to the hull and right now we're getting ready to cut up some stainless pieces of all thread right here into individual studs those guys will thread down into these holes right there and we can get that fully bolted down there's a rubber gasket underneath and then that will be good to go then after that we have to reassemble the jet pump unit there are some impellers that need to go inside of there right now we don't have any of the internals in the pump just for mock-up purposes but we'll get the jet pump fully assembled again and then we can go ahead and actually seal this guy up to the back of the transom here because there is a small gap all the way around the jet pump unit that's how you actually install this guy just slides through and then you use a marine style silicone to get all that sealed up so no water can get in and we don't sink our boat and then once that is done we can go ahead and get the engine scooted back into place get our little drive shaft hooked up and then you know the power train and jet pump unit will be all good to go and then it will just be dressing up everything else around that right now we're working on getting the fuel system completely done getting all of our lines finalized and good to go there so y has been working on that but yeah i'm gonna go ahead and start cutting these pieces of all thread and get our jet pump unit all bolted up to the hole so we got the jet pump pulled back apart here getting everything ready for the final assembly and what i realized is once this all goes back together it's gonna be really hard to work on this uh notch i made for the reverse bucket here if i want to change anything so in the last video i showed how i knocked that guy out to fit the bucket nice and i talked about possibly sealing in these tubes right here and at first i wasn't going to do anything about it but i decided i do want to try to close all this in and now is the time to do that because once this jet pump assembly goes back together i'd rather not pull it apart to ever work on this so what we got going on here is i'm gonna go ahead and cut a piece of aluminum like a long rectangle i'm gonna curve the edges down to follow this contour i'm going to outline this right here and i will round the corners to follow this shape and i'm basically going to make a plate that will press up into here and it won't sit up to this point it'll be up here a ways and kind of out of the way i'm also going to finish welding this piece in from the back side so that's nice and solid because you can see right there where that added piece was so i'm going to go ahead and cut a piece to fit right in there and get it all sealed up and ground away and then that will be done so we can get the jet pump fully bolted down get it sealed up and hopefully we don't have to take this thing apart for a while so i just got that welded up from the back side not too bad for being on my back here my neck is killing me my biggest fear is building up some slag on the end of the rod and not getting it to dip and then that end of the rod falling onto me and having molten hot aluminum on me so i was doing my best to avoid that luckily i did not get burned this is the piece i got cut out right here to fill in this gap it still needs some final finessing and shaving but this guy oh that's hot but this guy will press up into there if it's pretty good as you can see i'm not going to do it right now because it's so hot but that will follow that shape and i'll go ahead and tap that up into place and get it where i like it and then i'll weld that guy solid and then i'll do some final angle grinding and we'll be all good to go even though i have to do some fabric on the back of the boat here at least we didn't have to weld the whole thing because that would have sucked so all right so after a ton of welding and grinding i am very happy with how that came out she's all sealed up and ready to go and uh just in time you look right over here alec just showed up and we have ourselves a trailer so this is a two jet ski trailer that they don't need anymore he actually just put this thing up for sale and yeah will work perfect for us this is what they use to convert to work for the jet boats yeah so i actually don't know the whole process yet but i know you take off these two middle pieces of wood and then you have to readjust the side ones to make them fit but this is going to be your other problem up here you might just have to cut this front weld it back here a little bit and then kind of remodify this yeah simple sure you can get it done what happened to the jet skis oh we still got it we just got a single trailer oh okay just so now they're on their own trailer yeah individually exactly yeah cool well that works out perfect because we're just about ready to get this thing on the water and we have no way to transport it well here you go man yeah this worked out great alec also sent me some measurements of the width of the trailer it's about 103 inches from uh outer edge of each tire uh because we didn't know if this trailer would fit in between our lift because right now we have no way of lifting the jet boat up except with our lift so luckily it will fit in between the lift our lift's like 110 inches so once we're ready to actually put the boat in the water we'll go up with the lift modify our trailer stick it under the boat and we should be good to go bang dude you're going to sell us a trailer with a busted wheel that's 100 bucks off right there nah it'll work perfect calm down really calm down oh that's it you get higher than that oh there you go that's nice all right guys just doing some final welding in the jet boat here before we get the pump and assembly all the way back together we actually have the housing out of this thing just to clear up some more room to finish welding up these bungs right here so this guy right here is our dash 12 and that is our water coming in to cool the engine and then this is a dash 16 and that is going to be our water going back out and our thought behind this is the high pressure water coming in through this dash 12 will be dropped as it comes out of a bigger opening on the dash 16 there because as the rpm goes up we're assuming the water pressure coming out of that spigot is going to go up as pressure builds up in the drive unit so to help combat that we have a bigger exit hole so as the higher pressure comes in the water doesn't have any trouble getting out and it doesn't hurt something inside of our engine once again it's a whole experimental process here we probably should get a coolant pressure gauge to monitor it but we're just going to take it out and kind of you know keep an eye on things and see how it goes but getting that guy fully welded up i just have to finish that one and we'll be good to go there this guy right here is for an air bleed there's a little brass fitting on the front of the housing and that connects to that guy so the guys over scott waterjet messaged me about that so i guess that takes care of maybe any air pockets that build up underneath the drive as it's pulling in water that is my guess on it um but yeah that's about it boys so i'm gonna go ahead and get this finished welded up i got this nice little uh access to my tig pedal through the back of the hole here and i just got to get up and underneath and then we'll be good to go and we can go ahead and start cleaning this surface off down here and get the housing back on and start sealing everything up for the final time and hopefully get this thing on the water here soon all right guys it is about that time we're getting ready to bolt the intake housing up to the bottom of the boat here hopefully for the final time so i just went ahead and got all these surfaces nice and cleaned off just took some alcohol and got all this guy cleaned off got the jet block right there cleaned off we got our gasket all cleaned up and something that scott waterjet recommends is that we take some of the marine adhesive that came with our pump which is right here and we're going to apply a thin layer on the jet block right here we'll put our gasket over that another thin layer on top of the rubber gasket and then we'll put our intake housing onto that guy right there and then we'll use all of our new stainless steel studs that we just made along with all new stainless hardware and then she'll be bolted down and then from there we can go ahead and assemble the jet pump and then we can get to sealing the back of this thing up with the same marine adhesive right here so go ahead and get to it hopefully this thing doesn't have to come apart for any other reason all right guys our jet pump is all bolted down to the hull here we should be good to go um right now we are getting the back of it all taped up so we can apply our marine silicone right here so right now it's down there getting her all masked up and we're going to be applying that silicone from this side first then we'll let that cure and then get some applied to the other side and get this thing all sealed up just got the outside kind of sealed up here so we have to give this silicone about 10 minutes to start to cure then we can take the tape off then we'll go ahead and run some more along the inside well that is looking pretty good that's all they used to seal this thing up you just run it through fill it with some silicone and we should be good to go boys we're just sending it on the inside here no tape i don't even think we need it no let's lay my speed down we don't need her sinking dude don't let any water through there no promises i ain't no engineer but well just lay as thick as you can i don't think she's gonna sink i'll tell you that we got bilge pumps for a reason we're gonna put three of them in here we've been letting this marine silicone kind of dry up for a bit now it's been about an hour it's starting to get pretty firm and boys it is in there our boat is officially sealed up right now we could technically put this in the water and in theory it should float our only hole is that one right there for the steering cable to go through since we still have to get the motor pushed back in place and then we'll get the cable ran back through but boys she is fully sealed and she should be water tight got the pump sticking out the back here check it out we just have the reverse bucket off of this guy uh just for when we went to seal all that up but you can see the silicone goes all the way around and dude it came out so freaking good i'm so excited guys jet boats definitely a lot of work to build but i think it's going to pay off once we finally get this thing in the water which should hopefully be in the next couple days right now wyatt's working on some battery cables over there getting everything finalized our fuel lines are all done and ready to go so that came out really clean look at that setup back there with the fill neck and everything so it's coming together guys i'm pumped so now that all of that is sealed up and ready to go we're going to go ahead and get the engine scooted back into place here get it bolted down and just keep buttoning some things up and keep getting it closer and closer to being able to go onto the water like i said i think we're going to try to use this log manifold and just rig up an exhaust for now just to test it we still need to get our mounts either painted or powder coated but for right now we're going to send it on those guys just try to keep water off of them so they don't rust but we do have to eventually flip the whole boat upside down to do the poly underneath it which is up on the roof over here so that is all the plastic poly that bolts to the bottom of our boat that just helps if you want to you know jump over sand bars or if you're hitting rocks and stuff it just helps the boat slide across things and it doesn't beat up the bare aluminum it's kind of like a big layer of protection and that is three quarter inch thick i believe so we're testing the boat just to make sure everything works properly and what sucks is once you know everything checks out and we get to test it we'll be so excited to go drive it around and stuff but we actually have to bring it back here and we're going to pull the whole boat apart pull the engine completely out of this thing we have to flip the whole boat upside down and do the poly on the bottom and that is a big process probably a couple day job because we have to drill so many holes and literally the only thing that holds the poly to the bottom though is a nut and bolt all across the bottom of the boat there's like several hundred of them so that's not gonna be a fun task but we figured once the engine comes out for that we'll finalize like the motor mounts and things like that and then once the poly is on and it goes back together that's going to be the final assembly of the jet boat here but we just want to get it ready for a water test because she is so close all right guys i think that's going to about do it for right now we are so close to getting this thing on the water i think by the next video we will have our first water test as you can see we got everything sealed up we got the motor back into place here got our drive shaft back in there just got to get it fully tightened up we still just have to do a coolant return line but that'll be super simple we just got to go from this fitting right here and out to the back of the boat we got our air bleed line done we got the coolant feed done into our little sand trap the fuel system like i said earlier is completely done we just have a feed line that's already made this goes from this regulator right into our rail we cleaned up the wiring harness on the engine while i got a whole bunch of wiring done come around over here if you got all of our wires coming off the battery so we got the main power to the starter we got our alternator wire we got our main ground we have the alternator on it is tightened plugged in ready to go ready to charge we just have to get some more hardware for the engine mounts we need to kind of get them out the fuel tank right now if we plan on you know driving it somewhat we have to figure out a seat still a couple seats and then when alec was over here he actually dropped this off for us this is the steering wheel off of james's boat and uh we're bawling out thank you james so this guy will uh be our temporary steering wheel she'll go on like so if you go look at the back nice got the steering done ready to go just gotta get that reverse bucket back on and tighten the wheel down we got the cable ran through it's all sealed up done and ready to go and then we still have to just put the impellers inside of the pump and that's about it oh and then we have to get the trailer ready to go we have to make some adjustments to that trailer set it down hopefully we can get that knocked out tomorrow as well so we still have a solid day ahead of us and then you know we're hoping in the next two days by thursday or friday we will have this boat in the water for its first test but uh that is going to be your jet boat progress update video for now thank you guys for watching this thing has been a ton of work but we are getting so close so next video guys i think we'll be in the water hope you guys enjoyed and we'll see you later bye you\n"