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  1. Scott Danforth

    1979 OMC Gear Lube

    after $6k and 1-2 years maybe. just in the raw water pump, vertical driveshaft, tilt motor and ball gear kits (normal maintenance) your bouncing off $1k just dont damage the lower shift cable. that is getting close to another $1k the hull is another $3-4k interior is another $2-3k so all...
  2. Scott Danforth

    Building a '93 Caravelle 1750 Classic Bowrider

    or use a sheet of PVC board from lowes for about $75
  3. Scott Danforth

    Electronic conversion kit or a Delco Distributor or a module

    I believe that is a prestolite distributor on the old in-liners. there is no electronic dizzy for it in the delco voyager line. no, you dont want to use automotive ignition parts in a boat you do know you get 5% off by being a forum member here on iBoats
  4. Scott Danforth

    Electronic conversion kit or a Delco Distributor or a module

    would help to know what you are working on. myself, I would avoid the pertronix conversion as every one that I have ever had failed. I would stick with points or get a new dizzy.
  5. Scott Danforth

    1979 OMC Gear Lube

    your boat is the victim of a "deck over" the boating equivalent of buying a car with 5 gallons of bondo over the sunday comics to fill in giant rust holes. basically, you need to pull the motor and drive and replace the transom, strings and deck.
  6. Scott Danforth

    Merc 7.4l 454 Gen 4 to 5 interchangeable?

    Unless you have a heat exchanger, run a marine intake or a cast iron intake. AD is right, even in fresh water, aluminum intakes corrode I am running an oval port RPM airgap on my BBC, however I am running a HX. The marine intake with dual alloy castings are a necessity.
  7. Scott Danforth

    1979 OMC Gear Lube

    75w90 marine
  8. Scott Danforth

    Just 3 Words

    bathroom remodels suck broken tile cuts blood all over still doing demo
  9. Scott Danforth

    1979 OMC Gear Lube

    or yamaha or synthetic or ....... you get the picture. remember, you have 3 gear boxes. the intermediate attached to the motor, the upper and the lower. i would split the case, throw in a new raw water pump kit with a housing and inspect the vertical driveshaft (the splines wear and strip out.)
  10. Scott Danforth

    Congratulations 2020 SOTY award winner !!!!

    Congrats Dale. I can truly appreciate the hard work, especially making the steam engine.
  11. Scott Danforth

    Worth Fixing?

    that is a boat needing a full gut and rehab. the stringers and transom went decades before the floor rotted as others indicated, about $2-4k for materials and about a year of your life any fiberglass boat under $5k is a project boat.
  12. Scott Danforth

    5.7 Venturi Cluster

    i would drill out the other emulsion tube with the additional holes.
  13. Scott Danforth

    Overhauling my 1988 MerCruiser 4.3 ltr. engine

    your non-balance shaft motor has a broken crank you need a new motor why not build a balance shaft, vortec.
  14. Scott Danforth

    livewells- do they hang from underside of deck?

    in some boats, yes in some boats no
  15. Scott Danforth

    120hp OMC model number

    hydro-mechanical
  16. Scott Danforth

    Need a floor fastener for fiberglass, screws all stripped

    I did riv-nuts and had to cut 8 of the 15 out when i was simply test-fitting the bolsters.
  17. Scott Danforth

    Overhauling my 1988 MerCruiser 4.3 ltr. engine

    buy new mounts vs old ones. if you upgrade to a balance shaft motor, you dont need the squishy mounts and can use the cheep mounts
  18. Scott Danforth

    Need a floor fastener for fiberglass, screws all stripped

    the problem with threaded inserts is they are the same material as the screws..... which means they gall. BTDT own a pile of galled hardware just from the Salt Shaker restoration.
  19. Scott Danforth

    Deck repair looks like might need new stringers and any other advice.

    Floors are the last thing to rot. Stri gers and transom are the first. You have a full gut-n-rehab project
  20. Scott Danforth

    Need a floor fastener for fiberglass, screws all stripped

    you can epoxy fill the holes or you can embed aluminum backing plates in the floor and drill and tap
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