Swedish Ski Nautique 1969

Can anyone tell me if mechanical pressure gauges are the same for air and fluids. Found this in my local hardware store at a good price but it's in the compressed air section... does it matter?
http://www.jula.se/catalog/verktyg-och-maskiner/tryckluft/kompressortillbehor/tryckluftsbehandling/manometer-018028/

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Axel

Well I didn't change the pump which was maybe my mistake then. Insspected it visually and it looked clean from scratches, burs or chips and felt tight in the pump housing.

Is it common that the pump decays?

I'll hook up a pressure gauge and check the pressures!

Axel,
You didn't mention if you checked out the pump. If worn and out of spec, it won't develop the needed pressure to apply pressure to the clutch pack and keeping them from slipping. Unfortunately, pump specs/clearances aren't published. I don't feel it's a cooling problem since the cooler is doing it's job - hot in cold out.

Very cool. Congratulations!

74Wind wrote: A Vette...Stars & Stripes on the wall...if it weren't for the license plate it looks like an American garage. .

+1

Nice job on the rebuild.

Nice garage too. Still.....it pains me to see a hitch on a vintage Corvette. Good entry for the "Show Us Your Tow Vehicle" thread.

Super nice all around!

Beware those wrenches on the dash; sore toes, scratched gel coat...    

They didn't,that was a job done by a PO. CC did not start to use glass stringers until most 93 models

Joe is absolutely correct. I have seen several a lot worse than this done in exactly the way he described. Glad to see you are out having fun with It !

you will have to get the crank machined and get new bearings for it..   

Wow you boat has glass stringer and no core, that makes the job easier.

Hello all,

Sorry for beeing absent for so long. Have had a lot to do and had my hands full getting the boat ready for the summer and as everything has been going smooth I've havn't had any specific questions.

So I followed Joe's advice and put the engine back together being very careful to do everything by the book. I then went on fixing the interor with a new seats, some beer holders, a good stereo and so on.

Last weekend I could take it to the lake and fire it up in water for the very first time. So far everything seems to work perfectly which is great. I even did some wakeboarding behind it without any trouble at all

Finally I've installed a tow hitch to my car so the '69s can travel in style :) . Does anyone know how much a 69' barracuda with a 351 weights?

Now on to a few pics:

Engine back together


Engine back in place with accessories


Put a new gascap on the boat, the small details that matter


In water!


That great feeling






The tow car got hitched!


Hope you're all having a great summer!
Axel

This weekend was to be the big engine rebuild weekend as all the bearings and gaskets finally arrived.

Everything began wel untill it all of a sudden went to ***************. No I'm desperate for good advice.

I started by honing out and hot pressure wash the block to perfection and everything looked nice. I then clearancesd all the bearings using plastigauge and got results that I was very happy with. Kept on changing the rod bolts into ARP and filefitting all the rings which also went nicely. Then when putting the first piston into the block I somehow managed to do this:


What do I do now? Running this crank I guess is impossible so:
1. Get the crank machined to undersize and get new bearings
2. Get a used stock crank (if so do I need to rebalance it?)
3. Get a new aftermarket crank (I'm guessing that one would need to be balanced?)

Please let me know which way you think would be cheapest/best. This really wasn't what my student economy or skiing summer needed and I'm so mad at myself right now. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards
Axel

Looking good.

So I worked a bit on the boat today taking the rest of the engine appart and removing the floor of the boat to check the condition of the stringers/foam (I was so nervous about the stringer condition...)

The engine looked good and to my surprize all the bearings were in good shape and ford original and the pistons were std size too. I don't think this engine has seen many hours, at least not since rebuild.


The stringers.... Well someone has absolutely been there before me and removed the old stringers and foam replacing it with much thicker fiber glass beams (1.5cm thick material as seen in the first picture). The job lookes very well done and there is no delamination, cracks or other things. When I stuck the phone into one of the stringers from behind I got a big surprise, in top of each stringer a 1 cm thick steel plate has been put in all the way from the front to the back of the boat. The engine mounts and so on are then tappered to the steel plate.... i hope my pictures below make my description a bit more clear...

Thickness of the "stringers"


Indide the "stringers"



What do you think about this? Any good? Anyone seen anything like it before? The job looks nice and like it was done by someone that had been working on boats before...

We then took the boat out and high pressure steam washed it before taking it back into the garage nice and clean

Great, looks like we have reached a common answer:barracuda :)

Mojo, I like the platform too.

Anyone have experiace with Sierra manifolds/risers?

Axel,
You have a LH prop confirming the engine rotation.