1974 Bayliner Discovery 1850 Restore

[74bayliner]

Hello. My name is vlad i am 22 years old and i live in the city of Everett, Wa. I recently purchased a boat & trailer package for 50 dollars from a gentleman from Kenmore, WA. I have never really had an interested in boats until i bought this baby. Old and rusty as it may be, it is still mine and i am going to transform it into something that i love.
I have been doubted by many around me and personally i have had a few doubts of my own. I will be taking this journey one step at a time and hopefully I will splash it next summer, and in the future i may do some more work on it. Most of the work needed is on the following:

Trailer (Rebuild, new lights, bolts, derust and prep&paint)
Boat Exterior (fix dings, spider cracks, sand prep&paint, new accesories)
Boat interior (lay down more glass for reinforcement, new flooring, new engine cover, new seating, new dash, fiberglass moulding new accesories)
Engine (rebuild completely prep&paint, new accesories)
Outdrive (rebuild completely prep&paint)
Titles (take trailer in to State Patrol for inspection when complete.)

So alot of this may sound like TONS of work, which it is. But i am prepared to put a fair amount of money into it and achieve a very much wanted result. I will not be doing any transom or deck rebuilds this summer. I think it has been taken care of very well, after drilling a few holes the foam is solid and in tact in 5 different places around the boat. (knock on wood )
I have taken a while to get the pictures organized but it has been a few months since i bought the boat and i am going to post these pictures in dated order and explain what is going on. I did video record some of the process, but that is mostly for me to remember how to put it all back. I will be posting pictures every week or so when i do something to the boat worth posting pictures. I hope you will all stay tuned...

My goal to splash the boat is listed in my Signature. That is not a goal i hope to reach... that is a goal i WILL achieve!!

By the way the engine is a Aq130D and the outdrive is a AQ270... I know normally these two are not matched up, the AQ130D goes with 280, but i was told by a marine mechanic that it should not really make a difference. If anyone else has done this and knows otherwise, please let me know, thank you!

-vlad

 

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The boat is brought Home!!! 50 dollars as i saw it on craigslist...
The guy actually wanted 175 but i brought it down to 50... so good deal

 

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The Old engine that came with the boat was AQ140A, and AQ270 Outdrive, The engine was partially taken apart and it was removed from the boat with a Engine hoist i bought for 80 dollars with an Engine stand and an Engine strap! GOOD DEAL! Thank you craigslist.

These next pictures are of the New engine i bought. AQ130D i bought it for 600... the guy wanted 1200 but i knocked it down to 600... not knowing what i would find out soon enough!!! (but isnt that how it always goes?)

These pictures will also be the Before and After Photos... please excuse my aunt in the picture... she was captured on camera!

 

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After removing the Thermostat Housing i was shocked to see this "toilet" of a mess!!! oh was i mad

 

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The reason I took the housing off was because I figured i would take off all the electrical and mechanical things on the outside, tape off all of the other things, and have it sandblasted and primed and painted to look nice....
After i found the gunk, i couldnt just close it up and paint it over. I had to disassemble the rest... This is the engine being disassembled, and you can see little parts of tape where i had previously taped it up.. not knowing it would be useless..

 

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I got the cylinder head off, and the rocker arm and the rods off. For the cylinder head i plan to take it to machinest to machine the sealing surface and clean it so i can paint it. heres the pictures.

Dont mind the axe... i just used the but end of it to knock a few things lose.

 

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Than i drained the oil. And what did i find.. Milk!! kinda hard to see in these pictures but it is what it is... that means i have to rebuild everything new seals and i found the issue... head gasket had a crack... later to be posted about the cylinder head!! made me pissed

 

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So next i decided to pull all of the Wiring out of the boat!! here goes...
This is the wiring harness before i started.

After 90 dollars of supplies and marine wire, 4 days of headaches and a Volvo Penta wiring diagram, i completed the wiring harness for my boat. What do you think?

After i completed this task i convinced the wife to let me dig a little deeper into our "purse" so to speak and i bought these
when they came i was jumping for joy

 

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Anyways sorry to track you away from there, now the following day i went back to the engine to pull out the pistons. Here is more of the process, removing the pistons, which came out very easily as they were pretty well lubed and not frozen in.

The Pistons themselves seem to be in ok Condition they just need to be cleaned. Something to pay attention to when removing pistons, is to make sure you know where the pistons go. and the crank shaft and all of the bolts and nuts. its necessary to keep them all together... take lots of pictures.

Next i pulled the crank shaft, be very careful as you can scratch the crankshaft bearing surfaces. Be sure to check the bearing surfaces for scratches also check the bearings. Mine (not pictured had some bad scratches) so i will need to replace them..

Be careful taking out any plugs as they may be in there stiff but they are very fragile. so dont go drilling into the camshaft plug just because its hard in the beginning it will turn soft real fast. I learned the hard way, fortunately not much was damaged.

Another thing to look for is to check the Piston sealing surface in the block.. make sure there are no deep scratches that if you run your fingernail past it, the nail goes into the scratch... If so you will need it Bored and you will most likely need new pistons and rings...

My block will be going to the machinest for cleaning and hot tanking in a few weeks as i do not have enough money for it right now. He will than machine the surface for me where the head sits so the head gasket has a flat surface.
I hope that there is no more work needed for the block.

 

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Next came the Cleaning. I decided i would try cleaning a few things such as the Valves, the springs and such.
I have been recommended to use Oven Cleaner as it will remove any paint as well as clean grease.. I didnt have such good luck. So i will be getting some kerosene and diesel fuel mix to use as a cleaning solvent. Thanks to a few people on here for suggesting it... Hopefully it will work better than the oven cleaner... or maybe i wasnt doing it right..

 

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I than went and purchased a Head gasket kit for the Automotive equivalent of my engine... Shame on me as i kept reading on and on... that the head gasket and other things have to be marine.. So i am sending this head gasket kit back and buying the kit piece by piece.

 

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The next day, I decided i would remove all of the teak, windows, accesories from the boat. Here are some pictures with the boat missing the windows... stylin

 

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My next step was really hard because all of my friends were always to busy to help me, so it was just me and my little bro moving the trailer out from under the boat...

But with a little muscle and persperation we got it!

 

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Next the trailer was hauled over to its quiet little corner in the side of my dads house, and all of the rollers and nuts and bolts were removed until it was down to its bare bones.

We worked well into the night, as you can imagine the bolts were very rusty and i think i got carpet tunnel from it.

 

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Lots of nuts and bolts and other various things that came off the trailer.

All of the rusty parts are going to get replaced. including the axle, the leaf springs, and ubolts and such. as you can see the wench is fine. it will stay.

 

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The frame is rusty and it will be sanded down with a DA sander just as soon as i purchase a 2 stage compressor that can handle the capacity.

The wheel has been rusted and is now flaky it will need to be removed.

As far as the tires are concerned they are good and can be reused.

 

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So I send the cylinder head out for machining... i get a premature call saying... "your head is cracked..." i paniced and went straight to iboats.com, and once again you saved me. i drove up to canada that weekend and picked up an automotive head, it was almost perfect except for a few holes didnt match up. I sent the new head out to the machinest and he finished it last week.
So here is what i did... yup. i taped it right up and primered it with High Temp Primer...

 

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After 2 coats of high temp primer i coated it with high temp engine enamel (Chevy Orange)

After 3 coats here is the result. I am happy with it, what do you folks think?

 

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The latest thing i did which was two days ago. I decided that in order for me to be able to do the restoration i needed to keep the boat out from the elements.
So i went to Costco they have 10x20 car ports for sale. so 200 dollars later I am building the carport with my brother

After adjusting the car port to its proper location.. the boat was not in the middle. so painfully we moved the boat (since its not on a trailer anymore...) but with both of us we got it done.

 

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The canopy has been finished and so was I. So tired i was glad i had it done.
This canopy was completed on Friday night last week.
So far i haven't had the time to go back to the boat. But i will make some thing this week to clean up in the deck of the boat and start sawing a few old boards away