I'm a car, guy, just started to work on a boat that my inlaws had sitting for almost 7 years now, and never used it once. The hull is in good shape, interior is going be be redone.
I have slim to NONE boat experience, so I'm looking for some help please! I've used forums for cars and found them to be very helpful!.
as the title states, it's a 78' Raven 270, 26 ft made by century boat company.
the engine is a V8, says Mercruiser on it, 233 hp ( right on the valve covers) and by looking at the stamped timing on the intake manifold, I have come to the conlusion that it's a ford V8, 351 CID (MCM223 is what the manual that i downloaded seems to call it) from a tag on the carb, i believe it's a Rochester card and by looking into it, it's got 2 barrels.
so before doing anything else to the boat, i wanted to see if it turned over. Got a battery, hooked it up, and turned the key, there's a click and that's it. used my multimeter and starter gets power. so i pulled the starter off, tried powering it directly, sparks fly and it don't turn, it's seized is my guess (that's what you'd expect after it sitting through 7 winters and never running.
so can anyone confirm the engine from the info that I provided? should I have the starter rebuilt? or get a new one?
the boat hasn't ran in 7 years, what would you recomment that I do to get it running without ruining the engine??
How the heck do you change oil in this thing??
The boat had some NAPA fuel/water separator filters (new in plastic - but rusted) so i know what kind to get for those, but oil filter and oil and how much.
what car from 1978 had this block in it so that I can go buy spark plugs and new wires for it.
I know it's not supposed to run without water, is there a hook up to run a garden hose, or do I have to drop it in a river/lake to run it? I can take pics, if you guys can point out what's what on it.
as far as gasoline is concerned, I should probably drain the fuel tanks and fill with fresh gas.
Does the outdrive (whatever it's called) thing out side the boat with propeller that loweres and raises cia hydraulics need to have oill in it, (where does it get filled/drained, how much and what kind of oil? is there a filter?
how about fuel filter? where is that? and how do I know what kind to get?
I know it's asking a lot, but i gotta start somewhere and it being so old, not exactly a ton of info on it everywhere.
Thanks in advance!!!
I have slim to NONE boat experience, so I'm looking for some help please! I've used forums for cars and found them to be very helpful!.
as the title states, it's a 78' Raven 270, 26 ft made by century boat company.
the engine is a V8, says Mercruiser on it, 233 hp ( right on the valve covers) and by looking at the stamped timing on the intake manifold, I have come to the conlusion that it's a ford V8, 351 CID (MCM223 is what the manual that i downloaded seems to call it) from a tag on the carb, i believe it's a Rochester card and by looking into it, it's got 2 barrels.
so before doing anything else to the boat, i wanted to see if it turned over. Got a battery, hooked it up, and turned the key, there's a click and that's it. used my multimeter and starter gets power. so i pulled the starter off, tried powering it directly, sparks fly and it don't turn, it's seized is my guess (that's what you'd expect after it sitting through 7 winters and never running.
so can anyone confirm the engine from the info that I provided? should I have the starter rebuilt? or get a new one?
the boat hasn't ran in 7 years, what would you recomment that I do to get it running without ruining the engine??
How the heck do you change oil in this thing??
The boat had some NAPA fuel/water separator filters (new in plastic - but rusted) so i know what kind to get for those, but oil filter and oil and how much.
what car from 1978 had this block in it so that I can go buy spark plugs and new wires for it.
I know it's not supposed to run without water, is there a hook up to run a garden hose, or do I have to drop it in a river/lake to run it? I can take pics, if you guys can point out what's what on it.
as far as gasoline is concerned, I should probably drain the fuel tanks and fill with fresh gas.
Does the outdrive (whatever it's called) thing out side the boat with propeller that loweres and raises cia hydraulics need to have oill in it, (where does it get filled/drained, how much and what kind of oil? is there a filter?
how about fuel filter? where is that? and how do I know what kind to get?
I know it's asking a lot, but i gotta start somewhere and it being so old, not exactly a ton of info on it everywhere.
Thanks in advance!!!
