Re: 1971 Tom Sawyer (The newest to the family)
Man you got your work cut out for ya bit as long as you can keep tinkering with it...eventually it will be done.....and youll have a sweet boat when your done too!
I'm working on getting there with it. Sorry haven't been able to get the pictures put up here, but with work, and full time student in college not able to do much of anything as of lately. I'm going to try my hardest to get some pictures put on here this weekend. I do have the frame completely done (not glasses yet though) and I have the plywood cut out for it, and screwed onto the framing. I'm still trying to decide on the style that I want the vinyl to be, and yeah we will see how things go this winter. I have a buddy that I work with that is going to trade me a car stereo amp I have for a carb that he has. It's the Rochester carb, and still in the original box. I've already looked at the carb, and it has never been removed from the box and put on a boat. It was only removed from the box he said when he bought it, and then a few days ago when I pulled it out to look at it. So I think it is a pretty good trade to go with. The car stereo amp is only a Sony 2 channel 1000w amp that costs $150.00 so yeah to me a excellent trade. Now depending on if I can get the oat to fully run well or not will decide next year how much work I put into restoring the boat as far as the sun deck and what not goes. Now that I have a cell phone that has a video camera option on it I'm going to do some recording of the restro on the boat so ya'll can see how I do things with this huge project.
Here is some information on the updates I have done to the boat from my little list I have so far.
- Ignition Tune-Up Kit
- Floor Replacement
- Shift Interrupter Switch
- Dual Batteries
- Ski Tower
- Sun Deck
- Bench Seat
- Build in cooler
- Gauges (Replacing all of them), fuel, speedometer, tach, voltage, trim, temp,
- Front Seats
- Water/Fuel Seperator
- Swim Platform on rear
- Sand and Paint boat (Boat colors still undecided on)
- New LED bow and stern light
- On-board battery charger
- Switch Panel
- Fuse Block
- Fuel Lines (Still need to replace line between stock fuel pump and carb)
- Electric fuel pump Mounted by fuel tank
- Through Hull Fuel Vent Piece
- Marine Stereo Mounting Hardware
- Marine Stereo System
- Finish Stripping and painting trailer
- Steering Wheel
- Throttle Lever
