junior,

the advice given is exactly right. However, if you are running in debris, like we get on the lakes in the spring, you will permenately clog that water intake. My 2002 TR21 clogged up right away. I cleaned it out, it clogged again. Then when I went through a bunch of small wood debris, it clogged for good. I tried the drill bit, and it would not get it all out.

One other thing, the water pressure speedometers are not very accurate. I ended up just leaving mine clogged and using my GPS speed display. Not sure about all GPS units, but on mine you can set the display up to show many things, I keep the time and the speed on it all the time. you can, with mine, choose MPH or Knots.

One of the things you will notice right away if both are working is that you are not going nearly as fast as the water pressure meter says. Mine read near 85 while the GPS was showing 77.

That's more than fast enough for me, and has never been that fast again...LOL... guess I am just becoming an old man. Now I am wishing I had a Ranger, heavier and won't go nearly as fast as the Triton.

However...... in the middle of summer, middle of the day, high temps and humidity, and no wind... usually no bites... so it is nice to fire up the motor and run 4 miles to get the the point right across the bay. LOL

Good luck,

Danny

PS, oh by the way, if you don't have any debris in the motor, check and make sure you don't have some other intake. My first bassboat had a plastic water pick up on it. Also might want to make sure your water line is not clogged, or that it is attached even. Mine did blow off once.

Danny