Re: 66 Starcraft Sunchief Re-Build
SS, I hear you loud and clear. My boating friend with the Orlando clipper is really helping with all the questions on hardware and rigging. He's already planning the maiden voyage. Looks like sometime in the next two weeks we're gonna hit water.
Man, all the little cosmetic stuff really burns up the time. We've been at it hard for over a week now!!!!!!
So today I had to make a trip to DC for work. If you folks remember, I passed a couple guys in the mountains of Wyoming on my trip to BC who had just fried the motor in an early 70's Holiday. That scenario has been really working on me. So I dug out my receipts on the outdrive work and couldn't find a thing on them that covered waterpumps. Several phone calls between myself, the repair shop owner and the technician left us all with enough doubt to batten everything down and haul the boat over for an exploratory operation this morning.
Turns out the impellar was in good condition. However, a peice of the water inlet tube and a peice of the waterpump housing had broken off and gotten sucked up into the waterinlet tube and was blocking flow.
They replaced all these and had it back together by the time I returned from town
Now we won't have to worry about cooling problems for a while. I guess the tech didn't realize we were looking to have the outdrive split open and checked out since I had just shot all that fresh paint on it.
The wood guy called around 5 and said the wood is going in this Friday. Once that's done, my son and I will spend the weekend re-wiring and
we should be ready for water early next week !!!!!!!!
In case anyone's interested, I shot a couple of out in the sun pics to share.
