Re: 1982 Century 7000 rebuild
I'll try and post some pictures tomorrow. Im not ready to give up on the 350 yet, it still has compression. My brother works at a car dealership and I'm going to continue to run waste oil from the new car prep's ( less than 100 miles on it) into the engine and crank it over for about 30 seconds at a time until I don't see water in the oil anymore. Once that's done I'll put plugs in it and see if she'll fire up.
I don't lose anything by trying but time and a few dollors worth of small parts, plugs, cap, rotor, ect. Parts that I would be able to use on any direct replacement engine I were to put in. I'm still tearing out the flooring and don't need to make a final determination on the engine until I'm ready to put the floor back in. My thoughs are that an engine swap would be much easier without the floor and flooring support bulkheads in place.
It's already becoming obvious that Century didn't put a whole lot of care into building the interior structure of these boats as the plywood used for sub-flooring and flooring support structure seems both thin and cheaply made. I'm considering making some flooring layout changes as well as making the engine compartment watertight. It's obvious that the transom gasket/seal around the Stringer outdrive is how it sank in the first place. I'm not a big fan of sinking so I'd really like to avoid it.
I've read through several threads here and you seem to be one of the guru's of rebuiding, I would love to hear your thoughs on this.
