River Dan
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- Mar 28, 2014
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I was looking for a 24' Full Day Cruiser with a V-Drive and found this Campbell on Craigs List about a year and a half ago. At the time I felt it was way over priced for a project boat and decided to see if it ever came down in price. Well it did and I went to look at it, the boat was way worse than the pictures had revealed as usual. I was about to walk away when my son pointed out some of the high points to me as I could sell the trailer alone and recover my investment. So I did it, I leapped into this deal with a blindfold on OMG!!! I do not know anything about Campbells had never even seen one up close until this particular day. Myself and son have had jet boats but nothing this big. The boat turns out to be "Freight-Train" The tandem 427 supercharged monster. As puchased the boat is set up with a single 454 BBC Art Carr prepped TH400 and Champion V-Drive. The running gear sits on full length aluminum rails and all the lines are braided hose the helm was fabricated out of heavy gauge aluminum has gauges for two engines and the stringers go all the way up to the tip of the bow. I was told that on the first trip out the engines pulled free of the stringers and the hull was taken back to Campbell for reinforcing. I have already started to disassemble the interior and test the systems for condition and have found the cav plate system to be functional the tanks solid and hold fuel. Right now I am in the process of replacing the fuel lines as they are so bad the fuel pump can not get a suction. I want to start the engine to make sure it is ok before I start sinking money into the interior. The engine looks to be a rebuilt as the enternal gaskets can be seen and look new, it gets 65psi oil when cranked over I think the lack of fuel discouraged somebody else. Well I started an album on it and will add pictures as progress takes place