77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

[Triton II]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Hi Sprinter,

Sorry to hear about the stern loom being a mess. Now you have the opportunity to use marine grade wiring and connectors and properly rewire the boat. From what you've said, someone had wired it (badly) as if it were a car? I.e chassis (or in your case hull) as negative earth? If they had, it's great that you're redoing it properly with a decent amperage negative wire direct to the battery negative. Good luck my Canadian friend, post some before and after pix for our amusement!

TII

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Will do guys. I'll post some before pics before I tear anything else apart even for my own records

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

I'm watching the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall and I just realized I was as the same beach that they filmed the movie at. It's Turtle Bay Resort and we just used the beach for the day. It's a great beach that the public can use even if you don't stay there.

It's going to make watching the movie more fun as I can look for landmarks. Enough with the Oahu tourism board stuff.

More rotten wiring tomorrow.

 

[Triton II]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

I'm watching the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall and I just realized I was as the same beach that they filmed the movie at. It's Turtle Bay Resort and we just used the beach for the day. It's a great beach that the public can use even if you don't stay there.

It's going to make watching the movie more fun as I can look for landmarks. Enough with the Oahu tourism board stuff.

More rotten wiring tomorrow.

Enjoy the movie... and the "rotten" wiring. Cheers,

TII

 

[Huron Angler]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Wiring is my least favorite task of boat restoration too, I hear ya

My before and after pictures are equally disturbing so mine is getting redone(again) this winter. I want to run it all thru a pvc conduit under the gunwales.

Hope all goes well for ya sprint.

 

[jasoutside]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Sounds like the opposite of fun to me buddy. Keep on keeping on!

 

[Last Mohican]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Have fun with the wiring. I actually like doing wiring. It's therapeutic and very satisfying. It's a good feeling when you get done and it looks all nice and neat and works well. Love to color on the boat. Reminds me of my old navy blue metallic TransAm.

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Here's the pics of my gunwale supports and seats heading off to the upholsterer a while back.

Also some pics of a cool massive alum boat in a parking lot. I think the guy had it posted for sale at 60k

http://www.thunderjet.com/boat-special_edition_rio_classic_22.html

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

I told the wife I was Jesse James after fabbing a bracket for the bilge pump. I'm not sure she liked the comparison It will tuck in by the bilge plug and hugs the bottom of the boat perfectly. It's made out of a $1.20 Simpson joist tie.

 

[BobsGlasstream]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

OK Jesse,
Could you whip up one of those cools bikes or I'll settle for a gelcoate eater/ smoother.
Looks like that bracket should do the trick. is it Galvanized?
Take care
Bob

 

[CheapboatKev]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Funny thing on the bracket..
I have been kicking around some way of mounting my pump as well!
Was thinking of a bracket to mount either on the block itself or fab something that can mount on the transom..

Good job Jesse....

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

I ran my led strip lights in the gunwale pockets today and ran the wiring in a loom. The lights and wiring were zip wrapped to adhesive strips made to be zip tied to.

I'll post some pics tomorrow and tomorrow night with the battery temporarily hooked up to see how they look.

 

[jasoutside]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Looking forward to seeing those lights sprint!

 

[fshngho]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Oooooooooh! I likey lights, I wanna see, I wanna see!

 

[Huron Angler]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Nice work on the bilge bracket, if you end up having extras I can PM you my address and ship some good Michigan beer back to ya

That jet boat had some serious enclosure going on, looks like a nice rig

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

I'd definately send one down. I just bent a simpson joist tie over a piece of wood and bent it

Here we go...

Lights, action...well at least lights.

I'll post some better pics tomorrow after some more wiring.

http://s674.photobucket.com/albums/vv106/sprintst_photos/1977%20Starcraft%20Holiday%2018%20redo/?action=view&current=lights6.jpg

http://s674.photobucket.com/albums/vv106/sprintst_photos/1977%20Starcraft%20Holiday%2018%20redo/?action=view&current=lights5.jpg

http://s674.photobucket.com/albums/vv106/sprintst_photos/1977%20Starcraft%20Holiday%2018%20redo/?action=view&current=lights4.jpg

http://s674.photobucket.com/albums/vv106/sprintst_photos/1977%20Starcraft%20Holiday%2018%20redo/?action=view&current=lights3.jpg

http://s674.photobucket.com/albums/vv106/sprintst_photos/1977%20Starcraft%20Holiday%2018%20redo/?action=view&current=lights2.jpg

http://s674.photobucket.com/albums/vv106/sprintst_photos/1977%20Starcraft%20Holiday%2018%20redo/?action=view&current=lights1.jpg

http://s674.photobucket.com/albums/vv106/sprintst_photos/1977%20Starcraft%20Holiday%2018%20redo/?action=view&current=lights0.jpg

 

[jasoutside]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Wow, super cool! Nice job Sprint!!!

 

[Triton II]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Wow, super cool! Nice job Sprint!!!

Agree with Jas. Nice job Sprinter!

TII

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

I'll see what else I can get done tomorrow. I mounted the bilge pump and butt connected and shrink wrapped some connections.

Tomorrow I'll see if I can get some of the original wires off my old harness and onto the new accessory harness. I can then stick it in a loom and secure it.

Routing it all nice like and making it look decent will be the most time consuming.

PS. Thanks guys. The lights turned out pretty good. I think I could bait a hook or find stuff if I had to now

 

[sprintst]

Re: 77 Starcraft Holiday 18 i/o - rebuild with pics galore

Here's some shots of the wiring spaghetti. The third pic is a shot of my new ezacdc harness with quick connect connectors.

I started out my tracing each wire off the switches to the destinations and marked and disconnected them.

I managed to get the EZACDC rewire your old panel kit that includes a wired up Blue Sea ST Blade Fuse Block that can either attach to one of there own EZACDC harnesses or the leads to connect to your old accessory harness. http://www.ezacdc.com/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=34

There are leads to connect to accessories, stereo, etc.

I cleaned up the messed up grounds, etc and put the old harness in a wiring loom and straterd to take it up before I had to take off to pickup my boys from Tae Kwon do, volleyball, etc.

So far I have working nav lights, horn, and bilge pump and auto/manual switches. I shot a big dead moth out of the horn when I fired her up

The next day or so will be wiring cleanup and mounting...