I December I noticed I had a cracked bell housing that was due to a manufacturing defect.
I live by the saying "while your in there, might as well"... So a cracked bell housing turned into this:
Replaced rear main engine seal
Rebuilt alternator
Rebuilt starter
Replaced all four motor mounts
Replaced every hose and hose clamp in the engine compartment
Rebuilt Perko sea strainer
Replaced 90's with one piece bronze sweeping ells
Replaced valve cover gasket
Removed & cleaned HX
Flushed engine with water forwards and backwards
Flushed engine with Rydlime forwards & backwards
Flushed engine with water forwards & backwards
Flushed engine with distilled water
Filled engine with new non-Dex-Cool antifreeze
Replaced t-stat
Rebuilt raw water pump
Replaced impeller
Stripped and painted most any components I could get at
Replaced battery cables
Added ground jumper from starter to ground point on engine
Replaced anti-siphon valve
Changed petcocks on HX, Strainer & t-stat housing with 1/4 turn valves
Changed both fuel filters
Changed tranny fluid and flushed four fresh quart through it.
Painted tranny
Replaced Prop
Replaced PSS bellows, o-rings and set screws re-machined stainless rotor
Had prop shaft trued and checked for fit & face
Replaced every nut and bolt I removed from the engine with new
Adjusted valves
Replaced cutlass bearing
I'm sure I missed a few things but I test ran the motor on the hard today and she purrs like a kitten.
Other projects:
I also just got the boat out of the barn and had the bottom completely done. I PAID to have it done this time!!
Been there & done it too many times!!
This included striping all paint and previous coatings right down to the original gelcoat and then testing moisture content. She was then faired, and any defects or voids were filled with a Cabosil / West System filler putty. While I was at it we torqued the keel, didn't need much if any, and then wrapped the keel to hull joint with unidirectional and bi directional fiberglass cloth and West System. The entire keel was stripped down to bare lead and faired with a mixture of Cabosil, Milled Fiber & West System. After all this was complete she was treated to six coats of Interlux 2000E then hot coated with two coats of Pettit Copolymer ablative paint one being a tracer coat.
She sure looks sexy below the waterline now but my wallet is feeling raped..
Unfortunately I did not get to some other projects I wanted to like rebuilding the pedestal and re-wiring the boat and replacing the 120v and 12v panels but there is always next winter.. Time for sailing!
Oh I also replaced the Acrylic in both hatches, replaced my wind speed/direction with a new ST-60 and re-wired the VHF cable in the spar with RG-8U and bought her a new main sail..
Scraping:
Keel Joint:
Fairing:
Barrier Coat:
Done!!
I live by the saying "while your in there, might as well"... So a cracked bell housing turned into this:
Replaced rear main engine seal
Rebuilt alternator
Rebuilt starter
Replaced all four motor mounts
Replaced every hose and hose clamp in the engine compartment
Rebuilt Perko sea strainer
Replaced 90's with one piece bronze sweeping ells
Replaced valve cover gasket
Removed & cleaned HX
Flushed engine with water forwards and backwards
Flushed engine with Rydlime forwards & backwards
Flushed engine with water forwards & backwards
Flushed engine with distilled water
Filled engine with new non-Dex-Cool antifreeze
Replaced t-stat
Rebuilt raw water pump
Replaced impeller
Stripped and painted most any components I could get at
Replaced battery cables
Added ground jumper from starter to ground point on engine
Replaced anti-siphon valve
Changed petcocks on HX, Strainer & t-stat housing with 1/4 turn valves
Changed both fuel filters
Changed tranny fluid and flushed four fresh quart through it.
Painted tranny
Replaced Prop
Replaced PSS bellows, o-rings and set screws re-machined stainless rotor
Had prop shaft trued and checked for fit & face
Replaced every nut and bolt I removed from the engine with new
Adjusted valves
Replaced cutlass bearing
I'm sure I missed a few things but I test ran the motor on the hard today and she purrs like a kitten.
Other projects:
I also just got the boat out of the barn and had the bottom completely done. I PAID to have it done this time!!
Been there & done it too many times!! This included striping all paint and previous coatings right down to the original gelcoat and then testing moisture content. She was then faired, and any defects or voids were filled with a Cabosil / West System filler putty. While I was at it we torqued the keel, didn't need much if any, and then wrapped the keel to hull joint with unidirectional and bi directional fiberglass cloth and West System. The entire keel was stripped down to bare lead and faired with a mixture of Cabosil, Milled Fiber & West System. After all this was complete she was treated to six coats of Interlux 2000E then hot coated with two coats of Pettit Copolymer ablative paint one being a tracer coat.
She sure looks sexy below the waterline now but my wallet is feeling raped..
Unfortunately I did not get to some other projects I wanted to like rebuilding the pedestal and re-wiring the boat and replacing the 120v and 12v panels but there is always next winter.. Time for sailing!
Oh I also replaced the Acrylic in both hatches, replaced my wind speed/direction with a new ST-60 and re-wired the VHF cable in the spar with RG-8U and bought her a new main sail..
Scraping:
Keel Joint:
Fairing:
Barrier Coat:
Done!!
