Will This Engine Push My Boat? 

It's like someone was trying to make the most annoying boat motor possible. Imagine trying to fish early one morning and hearing that thing drive by you.

When you order an airboat from wish

Petition to make him paint his John boat

Usually don't binge watch other youtubers but over the past month I have watched almost all of your videos. Glad to see a new one today! Love the work you do. Keep it up!

by the way.. those were used by fire departments to blow into the front of a house on fire after some windows are broken in the sides or back of the house.. it blows the smoke, heat and flames away from the front entrance so the firemen can make access and search much faster.. in multi story buildings they set up vent vans blowing into the first floor stairwells to give positive pressure to the stairwells so any doors above them has air moving out of the stair well ... allowing the fire fighters to go up the stairs without needing to use their air packs.. single blade versions are still available from some companies.. multi blade versions are the norm now.. and there are some creative almost jet engine turbine fan blade type versions that direct air flow out of a ring of slots.. so they get a much higher velocity.. if you set up the exhaust with a long exhaust flex tube.. those come in so handy on super hot days just keeping the air flowing where your working.. think of sanding a hull... no breeze.. start the gas powered fan.. have a nice breeze blowing.. keeping you cooler and blowing the dust away. the air movement can also be used to blow skeeters away from your work area..

I think your gonna need a BIGGER FAN! 😆

A fart could push the boat faster.

needs a bigger prop(or more pitch), motor revs way to high which means theres alot of power not being used

So basically it’s a lawn mower engine with a fan attached.

This would be the right engine for the wheel barrow!

Did that thing really just start right up??? I’ll be dipped. My freakin 5 year old lawn mower doesn’t fire at all if it’s been sitting for a month! What a fun little thing!

Man. You are an inspiration. I'm 42 years old. Been messing with small OBs since I was 5. You give me inspiration like crazy. Good job

Your videos are just super entertaining. I could watch you fix boats for all day long. Keep up the great work!

I’d bet someone who has an antique boat motor collection would love to add that to their collection. It looks super rare.

brilliant bit of shallow water kit, now try one with a 10hp two stroke and a four blade carbon fan, if you want a faster one that is,

I’d say she needs a little bit more pitch.

nice vid man really enjoy them!

Nice one! Have a similar setup but a larger 30hp two-stroke with pushes me on water and ice winter-time far north of where you are.

Good stuff and fun to watch. Thanks!

You can flip the head on the trolling motor with one screw to turn it from a transom mount to a bow mount

Not everything you drag home is a winner lol. Funny stuff.

That motor is actually moving the boat perfectly. We use that setup on a stand on the bow for our flounder giging boats

Fuel line is supposed to run through the block on these engines

Love how all his boats he fixes up but then the ole jon boat is just chilling like gimme a fresh paint 🤣🤣

That’s cool. I could use that for my kayak. Thanks for the video and God bless you.

This thing reminds me of my first outboard, more noise than power! Still a sweet buy though!

Saw that on market place looked like something i would build good job man keep it up

THIS GUYS CONTENT IS RELENTLESS! I LOVE IT!

Well ..... That prop ain't gettin' tangled in weeds . The worlds loudest weedless trolling motor has been found my king . BLG takes the knee .

How about adding a shroud? It loses a lot of thrust in it's wash.

That's one loud push mower motor if I ever heard one. It could double as a garage fan on real hot days, maybe it's preferred use?

I love your boat videos, please make more!!!!

What do you use when you cleaned the outside of the engine. The paintbrush and what product ?

Put that motor on a FLAT BACK CANOE!!! thT we be a cool video bro!

Question I just submerged my motor early last month! I’m wondering if it’s salvageable. After Goethe motor out of the water I rinsed it and tried starting it which it did turnover but I seal at the top slipped out and dumped oil all over my driveway. And I haven’t touch it since any thing would be helpful. (I’m no mechanic either) thanks in advance. And I love watching you bring these old motors to life!!

Look at giant scale model airplane propellers, they'd probably work much better.

You got yourself an awesome fan for the workshop! 😁😂. Try it on a square stern canoe.

Nice conversation piece !

portable gas powered fan when working on a boat keep you cooler

all I can say is glad that's your $100 bucks. LOL

Haha love it bro! You should put that thing on your wheel barrel

That motor is not ment to be the main motor on a boat. That is a flounder or gigging motor. Made to raise main motor and slow go throw extream shallow water at night to gig flounder under lights.

Do a restoration on the jon boat l

Seams like something colinfurz would make for his living room lol

This would be super cool on a kayak or canoe!!

That setup would get a lot of "bless your hearts" here in Tennessee

we really wanna know about all the 1st gen dodges in the driveway recently

*YUP That's CRAZY!!!* I don't think i would trust that very much LOL!

Man!! I remember in my younger days my family would go to Florida to visit family and we would come back with a lot of cool kick ass shit! This is cool!!

It’s for use in the costal backwaters, gigging flounder and sheepshead, you can slowly work the shoreline and stop just by sticking a gig pole in water long enough to stick a flatty

I almost bought that! Coolest thing for sale on marketplace I’ve seen in a while. You’d get more speed with a smaller Jon boat and could probably look into a better prop for it. Something lighter, better pitch, maybe even a three blade. Might not even be one available but there’s more potential in this I think

Great Video! Quick question, how do you know when you are buying an engine “that last ran 1 year ago” that you can get it to run again. Specifically for outboards, what can you check to see if the engine has the potential of running?

I'd spin it around get some cool breeze. Make great yard fan too.

That motor sound and speed made me think of some grandmother driving their car at full rpms with clutch half down lol..

What a great find! Sure, it is underpowered, loud and cumbersome but the theory is sound. Thank you for this one.

HHHEEEYYYY!!! How’s your hearing. Rig a sail up and face that thing forward. Awesome 😎 video

Have you ever heard of a Grant Seacruiser 9.9 outboard? I got one with a Jon boat that i purchased recently. It runs well, but doesnt pump water. I cant seem to find a new impellor for it.

Been watching him for a while he dose good work wish I could find and afford a boat like he dose

This engine is hilarious. Loud, slow and just a bad idea in general. I want one!!!

If your ac ever goes out at the house! Then you’ve got a solution :)

Coolest boat engine I've ever seen

Hope the next vid is a boat resto. I keep rewatching the old ones.

I've never seen such a thing... crazy.

Cool pick-up for the weeds and the lilies. Just like with a boat prop, the condition of the prop will make a difference ... Airfoil instead of hydrofoil, but all the principals apply. Clean leading edges, smooth blade surfaces, crisp break-away on the trailing edge, etc. I'll bet that some reconditioning at an aero-prop shop would help ... If you'all have one arojnd teh area, maybe they could give you some pointers so you could do it yourself :)

We have very little access to used or even new smaller outboard parts where I am in Australia ie I’m currently looking for an electric start kit for a 1989 2stroke Johnson with no luck lots of internet searching. Are there any “go to” sites you could recommend

Jerry Michelek uses something similar for a range fan while shooting, pretty cool!

what did you brush on the motor to clean it?

you blew away the hurricane with that thing lol

It was groovy seeing you try it out on your boat, not that it was terribly good & I doubt they used much lighter boats in that motor's day. It jut has me thinking that maybe guys did something else or ran it on a different style boat to make it worthwhile running such a motor. It's very cool in any case & I at least think you might have a bit if a treasure on your hands & should restore the motor...just what I would do...but it thanks for sharing it with us, a great video!

Way bigger motor and way larger/more aggressive prop

OMG it's sick! A duck hunter's dream!!!

Hey on your trolling motor you can turn the shaft around by taking off the cover on the top and undo a bolt or on the outside on the shaft you can take out a screw and twist it around.

Dude, buy another walk around and redo it. Loved those!!!!

I have a question for you. I have a 2004 40hp mercury 2 stroke on my 16ft Starcraft. I was running a 25 Honda. I burned 12 gallons of gas in just under 4hrs. I was trolling at like 5 1/2 mph most of that time and only ran it hard for maybe an hour. I get it's a 2 stroke and I almost doubled my hp but it just seemed excessive

I’ve got one exactally like it in my shop, just a little bigger

Hi i have a 50hk yahama boat engine nad it has been sitting dry for maybe 4 years it will start but not runn if u know what i mean ? The cooling seems not to work it hasent any whater comming out. What should i do u think ?

That got me to thinking..... With a centrifugal clutch, and a bigger prop.... I think that could actually make a neat little "blow boat" But then, a bigger engine, bigger prop, cage, and steering rutters...... Oooooooo..... the ideas are flowing for my John boat out back!

That is badass! Pure Americana🇺🇸.....👍

Dude....How do you find this stuff?! I love your vids. I'm right down the street from you...Lake Seminole...

That’s pretty interesting never thought of that

Great fan during a power outage!😁

where did u buy the fule and filter?

@thatboatguy what jack plate are you using

It's like watching paint dry! Yes, use the fan to accelerate drying paint... 😁

...BoatGuy.....very entertaining...thanks for posting........looks to me like that gas tank is blocking a lot of the input air to the prop...I would make a bracket and place it in front of the motor.... and, like others have said, maybe a streamlined carbon fiber prop with more pitch... :)

The fish will definitely be hearing you come in in that

He finally used his trolling motor lol

love that little jon boat

That's a super happy air cooled engine

I've never seen one like that 🤣

This was a fun Video to watch, a lot of comments about this or that but all I can say is I'm glad I don't have that on My Boat.LOL

Do another vid with different props with more blades and different prop angles. That motor looks like its heavy duty for a better prop.

A commercial-grade leaf blower lol love spark plug on the top lol

Well it's a neat little conversation started.

That is the craziest pedestal fan I've every seen

Thats pretty cool.👍✌

I'd look for a diff prop. I wouldnt give up on it. Then you could a better/quieter exhaust. I grew up in airboats... nothing cooler

What did you do with the airboat because I would like to purchase it if you still have it

Hey do you work on jetskis? I’m willing to pay you to get mine running again.

Hey, boast guy! Take a close look at that prop! Take that thing off, and flip it over. It's on backwards, and the trailing edge is cutting the air first. Try it again, it should increase thrust by 300%. Let us see it again!