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My 30' Carver has twin Mercruiser 454s with velvet drive 72c hooked to Walter #36 v-drive. The raw water pump on the engine has the trans oil cooler and the v-drive on the suction side of the pump. Do they stay cooled by raw water or are they plumbed into the glycol side?
I just started my new project, a 1990 Carver 30' express with Mercuiser 454s on V-drives. It seems that Iboats doesn't have parts for it:
http://www.iboats.com/Inboard-Engine-Parts/dm/*******.468912359--**********.575554812--view_id.268605.
I'm a few weeks away from starting a stringer replacement on my 74 Arabian. The stringers are huge compared to most I see here.
Anybody done stringers on a Arabian 200 before?