Hi All<br /><br />Glad to have found a site like this!! I"ll try to keep it as short as I can.<br /><br />Background info. Didn't have the cash to buy a boat but found a deal I couldn't pass up. Boat and trailer just needed a bunch of work that was not complicated. I'd worked in a 'glass boat factory a bit so nothing new to me. Even rigging new engines. But repairing engines is another deal. I"ve got one marine mechanic as a friend but he's part time(did go to school) and works on small stuff. Plus my knowledge and an inlaw thats a regular full time auto mechanic.<br /><br />Deal is that owner said a mechanic looked at engine and said it needed lots of work. Needle bearings shot etc... I can't afford a new engine so we took a chance and bought the whole rig anyway.<br /><br />Lower unit is fine. Have it off to replace the impeller anyway.<br /><br />Pulled exhaust cover #1(have never started it-thats a long story IE no key and we started replacing rusted bolts in the meantime) and out falls a quarter sized rock. Hmmm. Did mechanic drop it in, replace cover and show him how bad it sounded then? Or where else do you get a rock that big from??<br /><br />Cylinder #1 was not firing(adds up to why it ran really rough for him)<br /><br />So continue to pull the exhaust to see pistons. 4 look ok. 1 of those has a bit of scratches. 2 pistons have oil blow by and basically stuck rings.<br /><br />Right now we are about to pull all the exterior stuff off and get it to where we can simply pull the pistons and re ring them all, clean the cylinders some, try to wash the block without removing it from the boat(may not work???) and then check the main bearings just in case. I suspect the main bearings will be fine but we'll look anyway.<br /><br />Also I'm going on the assumption that if I get it all back together and run into an ignition problem that it will be fixable and create no troubles IE should have never done the ring job first.... IE waste of money and time.<br /><br />Later if I get this far it needs some trim work. New trim motor but an oil leak when you manually lift and lower.<br /><br />Need the info on where the best source of parts etc... will be from.<br /><br />Have a Seloc book which made me think, Ok I can do this on my own. Very informative.<br /><br />All advice/thoughts on the adventure are welcome. I don't think the motor has tons of hours on it. And we won't be using it much either. Maybe 10 trips to the bay a year and a couple of offshore runs.<br /><br />Thanks, Jeff<br /><br />PS forgot to add that one steering cable had to be driven out with a mallet. Rusting inside the housing closest to the motor. I'd assume find a round brush and put on a drill motor and extension and polish it really good and then oil and I'll be ok there then??<br />Thanks, Jeff
