Oh yea almost forgot the most imprtant part, my wifey helped mix the resin and gelcoat for the floor and man it saved me for sure as it is tough to mixed a batch of resin, jump in the boat, do the layup, hop out and mix another batch.
So finally get to drop the motor in! Took the motor of the make shift engine stand I used while it was sitting for so long. I did shoot some fog spray in the cylinders and rotated the motor crank to make sure everything was still free moving since it had not be used in over10 years and all...
Before I installed the transom place I replaced the trim sensors as one of the wires were broke I decided to replace them versus repair being I already had it all tore down. The intake water hose was dryrot so replaced it as well. Then I got the holes drilled out for the transom plate and then...
After I did the gelcoat I noteced there was bubling under the corners in the bilge, I think this happened because I didn't wipe the fiberglass with MEK before applying the gelcoat as the fiberglass in that area was applied a few fears ago versus the rest of the fiberglass was only a few days...
I kept trying to figure out why the alignment tool was about an inch too high on my restoration project and thought I didn't get something installed right, found this post and after adjusting the bearing I am back on track. Thanks for the post even though it was about 6 years ago!
Holy crap it has been a long time since I posted on here and also was a while where the boat stayed in the garage and didnt get much love for a while. I have been working on her quite a bit the past summer and made a lot of progress. I did end up getting a new gas tank so should not have to...
Hello all,
Well I decided to buy my first boat, and was hoping to have it in the water this summer.... I found that after putting the back end in the water and test running it that it has a cracked block and after further tear down resulted in finding cracked heads as well. This boat went...
