Search results

do you have a heat exchanger, or are you raw water cooled. 1 of 3 things happen when you bury a VP drive in the sand. its light sand, the particles remain in suspension and most goes out the exhaust its heavy sand and the bottom of your raw water cooled block water jacket and exhaust manifold...

IT bought us HP printers for the office. POS is being kind to them suckholes of life. T office is 1500 miles away and they wont set foot in the office here because they know how pi$$ed we all are about the printers.

And with everyone LS swapping good SBCs and BBCs, many good motors are in the $1k-2k range only needing a cam swap and marine electrics and exhaust to make good boat motors

Many dealers are struggling right now until you get into the range of boats that are resistant to financial climate changes. even great dealerships are seeing a slowdown in service as new boat sales drop. Merc has a way of hypercomplixification of EVERYTHING they touch. Many of the engineers...

I would try to pull the cap. the cap will have screws and adhesive holding down most of it.

All gel coat oxidizes. There may be a lot of traffic and use scuffs Mike posted the process, just add the elbow grease . Depending on how dull or deep the scratches, you may need to start at 600 grit, then go up

Block casting number would confirm displacement

Welcome to Bayliner build quality Based on the pics, youre in for a full gut and referb.

Factor in wind load and other things and your truck motor is pushing a lot more power to hold 75 vs 65. BSFC for a motor is almost flat. It literally is the Specific Fuel Consumption for the motor at output Brake HP

No such thing as fuel efficiency. It's BSFC. Most 4-strokes burn 0.4#/HP/hr

NEVER turn a Chevy motor over by the crank pulley. The bolt will strip out the threads in the crank and you then have junk Always use a crank socket If you swap blocks, use the accessories on the current 5.0. same parts You're overthinking it. Base engines are just long blocks. If the...

you can do the work yourself and swap the motor for $5500 for a new 5.7 liter motor or much much less if you understand motors and wrench turning. however before spending any beer money on the boat. you need to understand what happened and why.

pull the starter and bench test it

it outlasted campion 6 times over...... LOL (cuz they are bankrupt and shuttered again)

cupping adds performance so removing the cup will decrease performance relieving the cup a bit should get you the 200 RPM you are looking for

That campion will be a bucket of worm food

Doesn't take much of any amount of fuel to run high RPM in neutral You most likely have a fuel delivery issue What are tbe compression numbers? Can the spark jump a 1/2" gap? Did you do a link and sync?

aluminum and magnesium are similar. magnesium once set on fire will burn until its all burned up (you almost can not put out a magnesium fire) stainless will be mildly magnetic if its 304 which is what I believe that the boats were made out of.

I have been using a lot of farm implement greases lately. I use a lot of John Deere cornhead grease at work for worm gear actuators. The stuff works for a whole lot more (got turned onto it 20+ years ago to run in 50's trucks steering gearboxes)

If your pulley is off and the belt isn't aligned, adjust the pulley installation until it's aligned The pulley installation or removal requires a power steering pulley tool