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    My 84 4winns horizon 195 project.

    Just an update, I reached out to our vendor and he quoted me ~55$ a sheet for 3/4" ACX outdoor wood. That's reasonable and probably what I'll go with. I also Got everything braced today. May have went overkill but she doesn't move at all now. Also discovered there are 4 total stringers in the...
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    My 84 4winns horizon 195 project.

    Key west makes a nice boat. My friend had a scout in that size, similar boat overall. It was very nice but way way out of my price range. At some point pleasure boats shifted from pleasure boats to lake boats. That's all that four winns is good for. It wouldn't make it through the canal without...
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    My 84 4winns horizon 195 project.

    My thoughts exactly. That was a thought too. We have a good working relation with a local lumber yard and we use a higher ply count exterior ply to build our cement forms. They are always nice straight and dried. I plan on looking into what they are actually rated at on an invoice and may just...
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    My 84 4winns horizon 195 project.

    Didn't do much this weekend. My girl celebrated her 7th birthday (leap day baby lol). So we lowered the front blocking and tarped in the boat so demolition doesn't fill the whole garage with dust. I have to ask, if I use a 4 foot straight edge on the chines and block the outside chine every 3...
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    My 84 4winns horizon 195 project.

    My next working day is going to be cradle and brace the boat then bust out the floor and foam. Day after that will be stringers. Then transom. Some point in there I'll grab wood. I'm also going to place an order for glass supplies. Seems US composites is the most reasonable though I have a few...
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    My 84 4winns horizon 195 project.

    Didn't do a ton today but got the carpet out. Looks like it'll need everything. Transom seems pretty good but there are spots that aren't. My question is, would you replace the bad or just gut and redo the whole transom? I don't think too many peeps are dropping in but figured I would ask. I...
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    My 84 4winns horizon 195 project.

    So I did a little more today. Goal was get all the old carpet out... I didn't do that but I did get the fuel tank out so that's a plus. The bad? Well, since I was able to core sample the bottom of the stringers I did... and... nothing. Now there was no delamination or anything through most of...
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    My 84 4winns horizon 195 project.

    It does seem like the complete uncut pile does do better with not holding moisture. You can see there is a pretty noticeable difference between the two in the photo. It also helps with wear and tear...
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    Manifolds (Trying to figure out what I am looking at)

    I spent the first few years of my life there. That's where dad was originally from. We used to run out of tanner Park on the great south bay. Dad used to run out of the power plant before I was around on occasion on north shore. He had some friends up there.
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    My 84 4winns horizon 195 project.

    See, that looks much better with nonskid imo.
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    Manifolds (Trying to figure out what I am looking at)

    So based on your reports, I'd say I'm looking g pretty good being a fresh rebuild. I also was expecting elevated sodium being I boat 99% of the time in the salt. I always forget you are on LI no?
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    My 84 4winns horizon 195 project.

    Which is why I'll still be cutting and assessing. If I cut and drill test holes that are good up front then I'm leaving that alone depending on what I find further back underneath. But yes, proper assessment needs to be done still. I have a love hate with it. The thing is 40 years old at this...
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    Manifolds (Trying to figure out what I am looking at)

    Exactly. And I plan to run it a bit before installing. Sadly at this point, I can pull the engine in about 40 minutes so overall not a massive headache if I have to lol. Funny you mention that. I did do an analysis after the first 10 hours. Machinist reccomended changing oil at that point and...
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    Manifolds (Trying to figure out what I am looking at)

    I poked around the exhaust port while I had it on the hoist at eye level. (Could see what i was doing) Wasn't able to cause any damage or get leaks or observe anything that looked obvious or an issue. Beyond that quick check, I want them to handle it. If this had happened a few years down the...
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    Manifolds (Trying to figure out what I am looking at)

    Nah. I ran it on the bay, went home flushed and parked it for a week or two, then ran it for half an hour and fogged/winterized it and pulled the manifolds a couple weeks later. Otherwise keep it all covered. It just isn't very likely but not impossible I suppose. I am really starting to...
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    Manifolds (Trying to figure out what I am looking at)

    I want to say it was felpro marine gaskets. Everything else was. They're good at what they do so if it was a mistake it was a mistake... **** happens. If they didn't seal the head bolts I'd have seen that in the oil too.
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    Manifolds (Trying to figure out what I am looking at)

    So a little update. I dropped the engine off at the machine shop yesterday. They're going to test their work and figure out if there is an issue or not and they have jigs to test the manifold/elbow assembly again too. They agree its odd especially given its the same thing that was happening to...
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    My 84 4winns horizon 195 project.

    So today I got to working. The goal was to get the interior out. First thing was first, I brought the engine to the machine shop so they could figure out if I am leaking water or not. Next step, get out all the crap. More crap Still more... Pulled out the seat boxes... Now at this point...
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    My 84 4winns horizon 195 project.

    Since I haven't started pulling it apart yet and it's just sitting in the garage, I've just included a a few action shots from this season instead lol. Above is the first outing of the season. Took her out my birthday weekend after working some 96 hours straight the days leading up to it. This...
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    My 84 4winns horizon 195 project.

    So the long and short is this will hopefully be a simple floor replacement project... but we all know how that goes. I know of some damage areas under the floor I discovered in the back but don't know the extent of it and won't until the floor comes up. The good? The floor is only really soft...
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