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I went to the marina today to work on the boat and try to get the engine work finished. As the alternator was broken during removal (by myself, I over torqued a bolt and snapped an internal lead) I sent my wife to look for a new one. She went to the Napa store local to the marina and ordered one for $200.00, it should arrive Tuesday.
Other than the alternator issue, I needed a few new hoses, clamps and other engine sundries. (has that term ever been used before?) I got the wiring mostly finished other than the alternator leads and one ground lead to the block. The exhaust pipe was a blast! It is wrapped in wonderful fiberglass tape which came right apart all over me. I itch. But once Bobby at Schroeder's Yacht Systems got the 30 year old gasket off with a chisel, razor blade, hammer and about a cup of elbow grease it was a matter of connecting it to the engine, lifting the rear of the engine with one hand while wrangling the exhaust end with a rubber hose clamped on it up onto the exhaust box. That was fun, I thumped my chest and had a good yell at the engine after that, telling it who the boss is! My arm is bruised like hell from it, but the thing is ON! I got the transmission cable hooked up, after dropping one of the bolts down under the engine. More fun!
The throttle assembly was a breeze. Nothing of note to mention with it. Couple of bolts, a cotter pin. BAM!
NOW, we move onto the engine mounts. Out of 4 mounts two were bad and needed to be replaced, only one stayed in place as we were unable to get the large mounting nut to come loose, even after soaking it liberally with good old WD and letting it sit over a few days. So we decided to remove it from the bulkhead. Not a problem you say? Not until the lag bolts start shearing off under the torque and massive amounts of rust or when they come our they are popping right out! No unscrewing at all!
I used a two part epoxy, loaded up each of the new lag bolts up liberally with it and screwed them back down into the bulkhead. They seemed to take very well and each actually had purchase when torquing them down, and hour later they felt like steel. I hope it holds up, we were going to use lag bolts with a larger diameter but they would nto make it through the existing mount holes.
So all is going smashingly along, I am having a blast putting together my new engine and getting it all hooked up. Until bobby comes over to the boat to help my align the transmission and prop shaft. We leveled out the engine and got a basic alignment, and then noticed that the (please excuse my nomenclature as I do not know what the parts are called technically) transmission coupler was too narrow on its inner diameter to fit over the inner flange on the propeller shaft coupler. We looked it over for a few and decided the best plan of action will be to take a metal file to the transmission coupler and make the inner diameter of the 4 connecting flanges on it about 1/16th bigger so it will accept the prop shaft coupler. Should take about an hour to get it right, no big deal, but it stopped my work for the day.
I will head back to the boat Wednesday next week, assuming the alternator arrives on time and IS the correct model I hope to be able to log in and shake my fist in triumph at getting the engine started, and givng the boat a shakedown run.
Keeping my fingers crossed, and thanks to those who have followed this thread, if anyone has any questions regarding this job I am happy to give advice or help turn a wrench if you are near enough. This is fun stuff!
Here are a few pictures of the engine bay and the new and old engines and my mess. It is pretty amazing, the oil pan was halfway rusted out on the old one, I am thankful that the engine went on us, however it did, had oil leaked into the bilge and caused the engine to seize up from lack of oil it could very well have started a fire.
