So, the story so far.
I sold my Youngblood TX20 and was not really looking for another boat when i stumbled across a 1976 CVX20 that was in cedar rapids Iowa. So i drove out and met the owner, nice guy, we took the boat down to the dock and threw it in the water. Boat ran good but we could not take it out due to the river being flooded. So i offered 6k to the owner and he took it. So now i own a CVX20.
We get the thing home and start to fix the small problems it has, which are as follows......hydraulic place diverter is inop, Gas gauge inop, depth finder inop, Radio and boat are "wired" in a way that is very depressing. (Scotch locks Scotch locks everywhere). Also one of the rear speakers is working-ish but its out of phase.
So 2 new solenoids and a ground wire fix gets the place diverter working, Gas gauge is found to be working but cant work due to float saturated with gas so i don't have a float, i have a sink?, Depth finders problem was no fuse it now works, Eliminated Vast majority of scotch locks, fixed the radio , got the speaker to be in correct phase then decided to install new radio ( why cant i decide this before i fix the old stuff) and then the forward reverse cable decides that it has seen enough and breaks.
3 weeks in to owning this boat and i have yet to take it out, then i find out that the shift cable that broke is in fact the wrong set up, so now will have to do some machine work to bore out the hole so the correct cable can be installed. Which i was in the middle of doing today but had to stop because of rain.