I bought a 1983 26' sedan cruiser on a trailer. It needs lots of work, but my plan right now is to get it seaworthy enough to launch and see how it feels, then decide how much time/money to put into it. I want to have a depth sounder before I launch.
I know approximately nothing about depth...
@Dubed @Scott Danforth @Lou C , Thanks for the comments.
I have a cast iron manifold. I will try milling it, depending what happens next. The gasket with permatex are holding a 15 psi pressure test for now. I tried starting it yesterday, very briefly. It coughed, sputtered but no start...
Update.
Thanks for the comments. The lifter in the picture above is the old one. Didn't seem to me to be "weld" on it since the surface is perfectly smooth, visually and to touch at least. With new lifter installed, tried a brief run on muffs without putting exhaust elbow back on. Ran, but...
Since engine is reassembled and I can’t see any wear marks on the lifter and didn’t see any on the cam, I’ll leave the new one in for now. the one line across it is a stain left by the valrsol fluid line when I soaked it overnight. The other stains are perfectly smooth.
Update. Finally got out to my boat to pursue the “get it safely on the water with minimum expense and time and see how it feels this season”. And I’m feeling optimistic about it. It looks good overall and appears to have been well looked after. Hope to sea trial in a week or two.
Port engine...
Thanks for the new comments. I'm arranging a marine survey for the whole boat, mostly to see how sound the boat is structurally. I'm not keen on putting tons of time into fibreglass/core replacement. We'll see how that turns out. Then I'm thinking along the same line as @nola mike, see if I...
PS: Here's the overhead view of the engines, which I just figured out I cut and paste from the auction website. Plus a few to give a sense of the boat overall.
Thank you @racerone and @Scott Danforth. I didn’t think replies would come so fast, so I wasn’t paying attention until now. I’ll try to reply to replies much sooner now.
This is a long post. I hope not too, TOO long.
Yes the boat is in BC lower mainland. I’m in Alberta … will see the boat in...
I bought a 1983 Commander 26 (BC built cruiser) with twin 470's. (Yes, now I know better!) First boat. I've spent LOTS of time since on boating forums, mainly this one, reading up on the 470's. I've pretty much decided that keeping the engines isn't a sensible option, but I thought I'd see if...
