The drilling fixture looks like it has never been used! No like the ones at the Baja factory anyway. You could do well with your own fiberglass repair shop. Take a Bud Light break and have us take care of that interior.

XT

Nice, don't be scared to cut them holes!! I used a big corded drill, my cordless would have burned up with the 4" tips. Good luck, you will be droping in the motor soon.

Whoya's alignment tool in action:



Engine in:

Need to get some new pics, from this weekend's progress...to busy working to take any.

Nice!! Call me if you need a hand!

From a couple days ago...

Dash wiring, did this awhile ago. Just need to bring all the far-end stuff in now:


Back seat - I made this hinged so if need be I can remove the side cushions and push it forward for front of engine access. About 25% of the engine is under the rear seat:

Pumps are in, and new blowers:

Exhaust back on, engine re-assembled:



Starter cabling:

I'm putting my battery switch under the rear seat. My hillbilly wood box until I can make a fiberglass one. Cabled it out completely last night, got a lot fuller. I'm running the batteries/starter, then a 2awg/100amp lead to feed the helm switches, the 3 10awg leads to the trim pumps. I'm seperating the switches at the helm from the engine harness. The only thing the engine harness will feed is the gauges and starter switch.

Only pic from tonight, hung the drive. It slid right on so I must have my alignment pretty close. I was trying to figure out my cobbled together hydro steering but didn't like any of it, so I'll be selling it soon and just using the cable steering for the time being. If everything actually works and this thing runs again, then I'll shell out the $$$ for the hydro in the spring.

Did a quick measure, looks like the propshaft is about 4.25" to 4.375" below the bottom of the boat.



Old transom housing placement for reference: