We start off our week with an exploding water heater. Which seems to happen on a regular basis. Then we have to pick the motor up so we can change the oil before we spin the oil pump. Harder than you would think. More issues with the Gen V - Raw Water Pump / Fuel Pump set up. Nothing has gone...
The Gen V water pump / fuel pump blues continue. Time for some major mods. So happy to at least have a stick welder. With the 454 out from under the shelf we start making orders to complete it and as they start coming in, we start building. You would think it would be a simple task, but...
Time to start digging out some of the things that make this boat go. It starts off with the Gen V Warter pump / fuel pump nightmare. Just a small taste at the start with no clue what was to come. We get out my back up Volvo 270 Outdrive. There is a really cool and weird story on how I ended up...
With some quick measurements in the cold we head back in the garage to tie up some loose ends. From trim pieces to battery lines we are all over the place. It's time to get a plan together for the upholstery and there is lots of issues to figure out. We are also working on a plan for the power...
Things are moving a little slower due to the cold, but we are moving along. Time to put the motor cover together finally. We start with the fiberglass edging. It's stiff but a heat gun will make it bend like butter and the cold keeps the rest pretty stiff not allowing it to stretch out of shape...
We leave our local boat ramp for a quick ride to where Francis Scott Key wrote The Star Spangled Banner. Many think they have been there, but Mr. Key was not at Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore. He was being held offshore on a British prison ship and the only way to get there is by...
After a week of failure, we continue on with the motor box project. Time to make it sweat...for real. We are pushed into a corner and have to paint it even if it's just to leave it sit until Spring. Mother Nature tries to sabotage it all at the very end, but we may have got one past her for a...
Mother nature lets us know we are its mercy as we continue the motor box build. It seemed like we started off on the wrong foot and it just got worse from there. First, we have to prep the box for paint. We keep moving forward no matter what by prepping what we could and when the rains came, we...
We continue to build the motor box layer by layer. Day after day. Lucky the wife is out of town because this place is starting to smell like a boat builders shop. We are just hoping we have something to work with under that huge monstrosity and there is only one way to find out. Time to do some...
We are where we were 10 days ago and we could not be happier. Now that we have the mold it's time to fix the mold. The first stop is to our grinding room with a view. A rare Race Boatism, make someone else's artwork your own. It took a couple days but we got the mold good enough start building...
The Volvo bellhousing is complete, but we have nothing to do with it this week. Time to "pop a mold" off of my motor box. I've never done this before, and we start off bad with a mold release fail. It's against my better judgement but we continue on to the point we are building something. Now...
We start off with the Volvo bellhousing. Even though it is perfect in every way we have major changes to do. Trying to finish off the gas tank / gas gauge install. Why does our Faria Tach have a Speedometer face? Parts are in, time to rebuild a Volvo Penta Bellhousing and add a way to grease...
Let's get some life put back in this boat.... IT'S ALIVE!!!! I'll take stupid if it's easy but it's never easy. The trim system needs fixes. Lots of fixes. Once you get the electric's working everything changes. The Fuel Sender has to be changed after all of our planning. With no leaks did we...
