New Owner Questions.....
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Go4Broke- those are great! I love that color of red in your carpet! All those plastic panels in the side walls & cuddy are gone in my boat. So I will have to design some "custom" stuff (similar to my Formula) and build them in my shop.
This is turning into a WHOLE lot of work!!
We pulled the engines this week... one is a Mark IV one a Gen V.
I don't know how the internals match up but we will know soon. The starters are totally eaten up with rust/corrosion & would barely turn over.
The bad news is that one engine has an ALPHA bellhousing & coupler!! One gimbal (old style Bravo) is worn out- both axis! The other is new Bravo style with internal reservoir. The drives are also different! What a mess. I indeed have a project here.
So now I am looking for a matching Gen V block & heads. The
Mark IV rotating assembly will work in the Gen V block. I need to pull & verify cams also. Whoever replaced an engine in this boat did a piss-poor job of it!! No wiring or plumbing is secured in the engine bay! Two different size & capacity bilge pumps. Next weekend I start stripping the engine bay for painting & reconditioning & removing the gimbal assembly.
Well, it is the 1st step up the hill to completion.
This is turning into a WHOLE lot of work!!
We pulled the engines this week... one is a Mark IV one a Gen V.
I don't know how the internals match up but we will know soon. The starters are totally eaten up with rust/corrosion & would barely turn over.
The bad news is that one engine has an ALPHA bellhousing & coupler!! One gimbal (old style Bravo) is worn out- both axis! The other is new Bravo style with internal reservoir. The drives are also different! What a mess. I indeed have a project here.
So now I am looking for a matching Gen V block & heads. The
Mark IV rotating assembly will work in the Gen V block. I need to pull & verify cams also. Whoever replaced an engine in this boat did a piss-poor job of it!! No wiring or plumbing is secured in the engine bay! Two different size & capacity bilge pumps. Next weekend I start stripping the engine bay for painting & reconditioning & removing the gimbal assembly.
Well, it is the 1st step up the hill to completion.



