Riding (And Almost Sinking?) @Finnegan's Garage Twin Turbo Jet Drag Boat!

blindly without looking, they all tightened, they put in different bolts, but they weren't long enough, so they tightened, but then they all tightened. way down so get some water in so get some different bolts tighten it up and yeah look at that one over there oh god okay yeah no no no no no come on grandpa I'll help you get in there It's not about age, it's about accommodation. here nothing but the best let's be realistic we don't want you to scratch the

boat

well that's also let's be realistic you're a little fat and we're a little worried about the fiberglass it's thin although you want to see something crazy Are you rolling?

Look at this. Oh wow, you can't walk on the

boat

. That's how it weighs 420 pounds, the bottom is thick and very stiff, but in all the other places where it doesn't really need any weight, I just don't know, maybe it's an eighth of an inch thick, right there you can just run your finger through it so there is no breakdancing. up here, tom jeez, thanks, hmm, sure, we're literally out of gas, will you take the other one? oh probably not, we usually break a tool, carry a tool bag here with the tools to prime it, oh yeah, they're in the back. from the truck yes it was full but we sailed the boat last year I don't want to alarm you but we are

sinking

and running out of gas we have a bilge pump and a pretty good battery okay I'm I'm going to turn this pump on see if we can get fuel pressure.

Change the return lines there too. Yes, I can achieve everything. I hope I don't get burned. I think we're out of gas, so it's switching to the other tanks. tank and see if we can hopefully one will get ready so we'll let you know shortly. Luke says keep filming the drama. Now we have an episode trapped in the lake at night. Now we have an episode. Okay, come on, honey. I have to hit him, there you go, what luck did we have? He ran out of gas. I don't see how you got through the entire tank.

I don't think it was really cool when I saw it. I saw it at the peak. That's it, something is. Moving on, you lost the prime and water is coming into the boat from the transom, so on this side of the boat, about halfway up the suction housing, that width, there's just a stream of water coming out, that's what What do I do, everything is fine. He still hadn't told me who had to swim, so I wasn't that worried so far. I told him I was like, damn, like I'm not swimming, it's too cold, well I didn't put a little kayak in there, you can take it. out there, you could have towed us back.

I was back there, going, how do I change tanks without melting in the headers? I did it. I managed to do it well. I think Mike ruined my boat. He had a nice jet boat at home and it was I had a lot of fun and then I discovered that there is more fun to be had and I think now I'm the racer of the group. Well, we were talking about this, and this is what like you know, I feel like I know Tom, you know this pretty well and he always struck me as the kind of guy that if he got into one of these he would say, "Okay, I can having a lot more fun in one of these than my current book not that there's anything wrong with your current book, it's not just slow, it sucks, but you know,

drag

week is awesome because

drag

week is a drag race with a lot of other fun elements that go into it, you know, the road trip and the people and all that and these types of boats are really cool to go and organize drag boat races, but where the fun is really is in going to the Colorado River. and drive a boat like this to a sandbar to hang out with all the people and then street race on the water, so I feel like we both have to go west, we have to find him a boat and then we have to head west again and go have fun on the river on that boat that's in the next episode, yeah I have a question for you, maybe fast forward a couple of years.

I have a question for you. Were you more scared when we ran out of gas and sank or during the driving part of this deal? Don't know. Like I said, the part where we ran out of gas, I mean, you still hadn't explained who had to go get help, so I wasn't scared yet, I hadn't told you that you would be the one swimming back. to shore and how long the battery could keep the bilge pump running. I guess what the other problem is. It's a small battery. A bit. I crawled back to change the gas tanks and just saw this stream of water coming out of the pieces.

We put silicone in the back of the boat today while we, you know, went to lunch and I said, oh, we're

sinking

, no, Newburn said, you better start rowing like a dog, oh God, that battery isn't big enough to float us to the end. shore, so look when they launched from here, I swear I'll tell you Tom was just reaching for something that was ready to grab onto something when you guys left here I warned you that was going to happen, but when we came back here and I stayed there for a moment, that's when I saw him say whoa, I thought there's really no holding on, but do that, if it makes you feel better, grab the sign here, well, no.

I grabbed my hand underneath, that was, uh, you were looking for something, well, that's the thing because that's when it's there, curling up or whatever, and that's the interesting part because my boat doesn't do that, you just have one guy direct launch or whatever. you can't mess it up or prepare anything and then apply full power it's automatically gradual to where here it's like you're here and it stops but you're not moving yet and then all of a sudden it's yes. you're like the hairs on the back of your neck stand up and you're like oh god here goes thanks for watching yeah like and subscribe so