79 nautique rebuild

Don't see any wear on the cam, nothing bad in the pan, i think o.k. for 42 years old and sitting for 7 years now.

5-6 teeth in a row on the flywheel ring are worn, hopefully one of the shops around here can install a new one and for good measure while it's apart, i'll order a new dampener as well. 

 lots of math and drawings @ 12 degrees showed moving the engine 1 1/2 inches forward gives just a touch more clearance under the engine and thus more room to adjust the alignment.

(Engine should actually go up to meet shaft c/w moving forward)

Everything rotated smooth, no binding and nothing sprung or felt different after the couplers were unbolted.

The stern tube is out and needs to be bedded once alignment is achieved, the old cutlas will keep it centered on the shaft. 

The engine was slid over to port but the shaft was centered in the tube, could still be bad part somewhere

The engine will get centered in the boat and the strut will be adjusted to meet up with that center instead of the other way round, at that point final alignment will come from the mounts, i'm not going to just slam on the strut and hope the engine fits under the dog box, lines up the pylon and leaves the prop wih correct spacing from strut.

I can check the prop, the strut doesn't show signs of damage or repair, like mentioned everything felt smooth, but my gut is telling me be ready for a new shaft.

The tongue is extended 3 1/2 feet, that should help load and launch, it backs up real good now.

Springs over the axle and sitting pretty high. The bunk height from the ground sounds about right too.

Once the fenders are on, it will look  right

One of them low boy trailers it's not 

The trailer bunks are 30 inches high and had to go up to 32 inches to get her back on it and forgot how high the trailer was.

I think whoever approved the design was high, i get it ya know, it was the the 70's maybe they were roller boogying under the trailer on the shop floor during lunch getting all cocained up and ready for the disco later on.

How did you not get water up to the roof window on the olds vista cruiser launching these things way back when ?

Back on the engine tomorrow, all gaskets are here.

The trailer's looking great. I too have used the ZRC many times and have found it great for rust prevntion.

OK, what's the round plate for? Spare tire mount?

I wouldn't be holding your breath waiting for Pertronix to make a version of that with the RR gear on it.

It's been in production a long time and it hasn't happened so they probably have very little reason to do it now.

Maybe Ron at skiboatpartsonline knows something like where to get a .500 inch RR gear for it......or maybe not  

In theory Pete is correct.  BUT I have installed numerous gears and the cross drilled hole for the pin never seems to be in the correct location.  Plus the diameter of the shaft has to be correct to that gear.  There is a dimension from the mounting face of the dizzy to the bottom of the gear that also has to be correctly located.  Seems as though they just install the gear to proper height and then pin it in a drill press,  never is on center line.  To add to the problem is the fact that some gears are not pre drilled for the pin anyway.  Just my experience.  Good luck,  Duane

Dan,

It's the gear on the distributor shaft that makes it a RH/reverse rotation. So, You can purchase a new distributor and install your old gear on the new.