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  1. oldrem

    1977 Sylvan Sea Monster Side Console Rebuild

    Finished cleaning above deck tonight, vacuumed and pulled the gorilla tape. I hope to do a spray down with cleaning vinegar and pressure wash in the next 2 evenings. Friday morning the admiral and I are driving up for our annual Memorial Day weekend trek to Wisconsin Dells
  2. oldrem

    1977 Sylvan Sea Monster Side Console Rebuild

    After 2 applications and a lot of scraping, the temp got up to 48 and the sun showed it's face. Put on my fishing rain gear, rubber boots and gloves and fired up my 20 year old pressure washer. I wanted to wash it down before using the cup wheel again anyway. Yesterday I had stripper residue...
  3. oldrem

    1977 Sylvan Sea Monster Side Console Rebuild

    Wasn't SC's fault, it was a PO. I've discovered a couple of different colored paints, the decking and carpet had been redone some time ago and even found 1985 scratched into the paint under the carpet on the gunnel. Also found evidence of an electrical fire at some point under the gunnels.
  4. oldrem

    1977 Sylvan Sea Monster Side Console Rebuild

    When I got home from work at 2:30 the temp was only 54 F so I decided I was not going to be playing with the pressure washer and would have to use a broad knife to scrape the glue. First I taped some newspapers to catch the softened adhesive and applied a healthy coat of Citristrip to the port...
  5. oldrem

    1977 Sylvan Sea Monster Side Console Rebuild

    All kinds of goodies arrive this week - aluminum, rivets, Clecos etc - just need to find more time and energy to work on it. Back to low 50's Sunday, so will just have to dress appropriately and try to crank a bit.
  6. oldrem

    1977 Sylvan Sea Monster Side Console Rebuild

    I wasn't happy with the inner gunnel panels, so picked up a quart of Kleen Strip Premium Stripper to try. I'm pleased to say I have a new favorite. In less than an hour, they went from this: to this: I ordered 30 ft of 2x2x1/8 aluminum angle today from Pottinger Steel Works in Racine...
  7. oldrem

    1977 Sylvan Sea Monster Side Console Rebuild

    Doesn't look like I worked on it for 8 hours today, but my body knows. Got the starboard gunnel disassembled, the top straighten and sanded. Removed a bunch of no longer used rivets in the ribs, masked off the ends of all the ribs with gorilla tape so they wouldn't get plugged up with old...
  8. oldrem

    1977 Sylvan Sea Monster Side Console Rebuild

    Went ahead and removed the port side gunnel. What I thought were 1/8" were all 5/32" holes - is that normal, or are they 5/32" rivets? A PO had replaced the transom which I am replacing. I could see they just removed a few rivets and bent the end of the gunnel up to do it then pounded it...
  9. oldrem

    1977 Sylvan Sea Monster Side Console Rebuild

    With the dampness today, 47 is feeling more like 37 out there. The old green paint under the carpet that was on the gunnels was quite crumbly and much was coming off with a putty knife, so I decided to start sanding with a palm sander using 3M 120 grit Sandblaster paper. I'm finding a lot of...
  10. oldrem

    1977 Sylvan Sea Monster Side Console Rebuild

    Finished scraping the sidewalls tonight and started sweeping. If I can, tomorrow night I'll finish sweeping, vacuum it and hose it down so I'm not applying stripper to dust. Except for a few globs of glue I found while sweeping, it should be good enough to start with the 'Kleen Strip this...
  11. oldrem

    1977 Sylvan Sea Monster Side Console Rebuild

    Have I ever mentioned - it sucks to get old? I did pick up a gallon of the Klean Strip Adhesive Remover Watermann suggested, so will be giving that a try for sure. Late last night I remembered borrowing a friend's oscillating multitool to cut some heavy fiberglass last Fall. It dawned on me...
  12. oldrem

    1977 Sylvan Sea Monster Side Console Rebuild

    Rains never came and ended up sunny and 60's all day. Got more than 6 hours on the boat, but don't feel like I accomplished much. Had to remove the bow plate to get to some bolt heads that were holding the rotted supports. Then I moved on to removing all the remaining bolted on hardware. The...
  13. oldrem

    1977 Sylvan Sea Monster Side Console Rebuild

    Had a few hours after work today, so I drilled a ton of rivets to remove the inner gunnel trim, cut off all the standing rivet studs left from the decking, removed all the nuts and bolts from the 4 cleats and the rub rail channel and started removing dried rotted carpet from the bow and gunnels...
  14. oldrem

    1977 Sylvan Sea Monster Side Console Rebuild

    What a difference a day makes. Last 2 days was upper 70's when I got home - tonight 45 and drizzling. By the time I quit it was 43 and pouring buckets. At least all the old decking is out now. I think I'll start removing the inside trim off the gunnels next so I can get rid of the rest of...
  15. oldrem

    1977 Sylvan Sea Monster Side Console Rebuild

    Had 2 hours to work on it tonight. Pulled the rear deck section and the small portion of the raised deck. Disassembled the steering and pulled the console. Pulled most of the old wiring. Drilled out the rivets for the large section of the raised deck and removed all the screws I could find...
  16. oldrem

    1977 Sylvan Sea Monster Side Console Rebuild

    Finally had some warm weather when I got home from work tonight. Still can't get the slot head bolts out of the rear pedestal. The few I've gotten to turn seem to also be turning the nuts, so will have to wait until I remove the decking. Carpet has been coming out fairly well, not leaving too...
  17. oldrem

    40EL75 Rebirth

    Thank you oldboat. I got it down today where I cannot get a .0015 gauge to start under the straight edge in any direction. Do I need to continue until those final little marks are gone?
  18. oldrem

    40EL75 Rebirth

    oldboat, you nailed a warp. I measured a .0060 drop across the center. After bluing it and 3 sheets of 400 grit wet I'm at .0025. Not sure if my old arms can do anymore today, but want to continue to .0015. I have 2 sheets left, so can hopefully achieve that. I've been re bluing the low...
  19. oldrem

    Tilt and trim conversion???

    I have a chance to pick up a 1969 55hp (55esl69a) complete with controls and T&T for $200. Can my 40el75 be modified to use that T&T? The 55 is too big for my boat, plus the wiring is shot on it, so would probably just part the rest out.
  20. oldrem

    Spring has failed

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