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welcome aboard. you will need much of the information in this sticky. https://forums.iboats.com/threads/how-tos-and-other-great-information.283508/ look at link 14, 15, 18, 2, 3, 4a, and 4b. go thru every video and picture and read every post

Volvo also specifies a vacuum test

I would pull the drives and paint them ASAFP. Annual maintenance on moored boats is painting the drives, don't the zincs and doing a bottom job Or start planning on replacing them

FWIW..... I have a bin of children PFDs it's just part of having kids and an expensive hobby Most of the ones I have are sterns brand and were purchased in the sporting goods store with the child in tow to ensure fit.

besides being a ford 302 with a 2-barrel carb, do you have a real question? or just a photodump and run? the high output versions were not 2-barrels, they were fuel injected motors with F40 heads and a 351 cam and 215hp you have a lowly 2-barrel motor with 190hp you can get parts here...

sea foam is naptha and light oil. not needed for anything

with all pipe threads 2FFT 2 Flats past Finger Tight

Its your boat, however it was done with laminating poly. not the crud from home depot.

Looks like the boat was beached often You will need to patch both sides of that

There is a reason the late great Don stated Clymer and Seloc weren't fit for anything but a knee pad

LMAO

:/ been cutting grass all year

unless the BBC needs a complete rebuild, I would just go boating. when it does, look into the 6.3 aluminum heat exchanged LS / LT variants out there. 430+ hp and 400# less weight than the BBC, (200# less than the iron SBC) or build a 550hp BBC

remember, its torque that gets the boat out of the water, not HP. Torque is how fast you get out of the water HP is how fast you get down the lake

if you want more power, there is a whole lot that can be done to the L29 to get you about another 75hp easy for not a lot of money.

Right up to the point the filter media gets plugged. Then you change filters

the aluminum is fastened with stainless hardware. the only thing that would be worse from a galvanic standpoint is if there was a copper washer bolted between.

https://www.mcmaster.com/products/plain-bearings/system-of-measurement~inch/shaft-diameter~1-2-2/plain-bearing-type~flanged-sleeve/material~plastic-1/length~1/

unfortunately no.

He hijacked his own thread