Good to see you’re making progress, I’m sure it’s tough in Malaysia but slow progress is infinitely better than no progress. 🙂

Keep pushing slowly, it’ll be worth it in tne end.

RR

Flushed the drives with some cheap W90 oil, the original oil was deep black and smelly, but no water or metal pieces so I decided no to open them.

Fast forward a couple of months later, cylinders refurbished, stainless steel parts machined here, gimbal ring powder coated and new bearing installed, all small parts imported. Bought two bell housings from Tim, one was very good, the other one scrap, had to toss it. Found an aluminium repair shop which fixed one of my old housings and it´s now being powder coated.
Guess I have it all together, now I only have to assemble it.

Good machine shop is always great to have close by.

Especially in a country with cheap labor. I paid only USD90 for the SS304 swiwel shaft from the local machine shop while it´s sold in the states for USD500 (plus 30% shipping and import tax in my case).

These two are originals, looking at the corrosion damage of the used one I have my doubts if they are 304 grade stainless steel. Then again, after 34 years in saltwater everything rusts.



I posted this photo already but isn´t the shaft a piece of art? The $90 local reproduction on the right

I would have given up long ago ... nice job

Talking about spare parts, as mentioned before importing them is a lengthy and costly process so when I finally get them I´m excited like a little boy on christmas. I spread everything on the floor and play with it

Maybe it was retrofitted to offset the effect of this zinc duly painted over?



Or maybe it was easier to install a new one than to replace this

are you ordering double of everything to have spares? that is if the budget allows it.

Not really, I´m trying to replace everything now that might cause trouble in future. Mainly engine parts like new alternators, starters and anything else electric, new fuel pumps, refurbishing the whole fuel system and so on. The engine room gets new bilge pumps, blowers, hoses and cabling and much more.
For now I do stock spare filters, impellers, belts and gaskets.
Of course I´m way over my budget already, typical newbie I underestimated how much money I would spend, especially on all the little things like stainless steel nuts and bolts and screws, line holders, quality tinned cables, connectors, AN fuel hoses, gaskets, the list seems to be endless. Sometimes I have an order for a thousand bucks and it fits into a shoe box. And I´m still buying tools.
But I don´t want to disencourage anybody, I still believe it´s worth the effort.