Finally our local lake opened its gates! The wife and I went out last night for our maiden voyage! It's been a long time coming. Was very happy with how the boat performed. Still have some other loose ends to finish up on er but I couldn't wait any longer to get it in the water!!
I must not have tightened one of the power steering hose clamps tight enough, after doing some passes at WOT I had a bunch of power steering fluid all over the bilge
Also the voltmeter was only showing 13 volts, so may have to look into that, I was expecting closer to 14, but maybe not the case for a 1989 alternator??
One other thing, maybe someone could help me with, after cruising around for half an hour or so the engine momentary lost power, or surged. I visually checked everything and all seemed ok, so we started out again. It happened 4-5 more times over the next half hour, no consistency of when it would happen. Seems to last longer (1-2 seconds) at lower RPMs and very minimal at high RPMs.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! I attached a video (it's really short because of file size) where you can hear it. This was probably the shortest surge that I actually got on camera.