New guy, Newish Boat

How is the steering cable? If you can't rotate the wheel with one finger I would consider replacing the cable while you have the back opened up. Easier now then after you have it all buttoned up. Make sure you get the correct length cable. I got mine from Nautiqueparts.com. Use PND for a 10% discount.

Updates:






-Steering cable is good.
-Rear Carpet Came Out Good. I'll do towards the front after we pull the bottom end and trans.
- Sanded, Waxed, Etc the other side and it looks good.
- Ordered a few odds and ends including a starboard keypad that was confirmed as dead.
- We are going to pull the bottom end and trans saturday weather permitting.

So a question:
If you were putting a new Long Block in your boat what all would you replace in addition to the internal pieces?

My List:
Spark Plugs
All Filters
Hoses (Old ones look like crap and have some hours)
Manifold and Riser Gaskets
Belts

What else should I just replace?

gun-driver wrote: All the above at least.

Any other suggestions? ....

Sensors?
ARP Head Bolts Worth It?
Coil?
Plug Wires?

Thanks!

And then it snowed a little... in Texas, In November


Myself and the boy made a bench for the lakehouse....


He likes it:



And I mounted the bimini:

quinner wrote: White stuff in Texas in November, wow!! That Bimini may want to scoot back a little for maximum coverage, in the pic it appears to be a bit forward.

Snow in Texas is always a giant disaster. Luckily this was just enough to make the yards and roofs pretty this morning but otherwise it was bone dry. We got more than a few snow days last year in my area which isn't that common. Usually only snows 1-2 times a year and never sticks around for more than a day.

The Bimini is just stuck up there with the mounts that were there from the previous owner. I will probably do some tinkering with it as it is a little nose high and forward....

Haven't updated since weren't many responses but I'll keep talking to myself..

Ordered a whole mess of stuff from Zach.

And installed a new strut and my rebuilt prop over the weekend plus new stainless larger thru-hulls for the bildge and ballast.

I called a guy this morning from our local CL that had a brand new Ft4E shortblock for less than $1000 but he said it sold within 10 minutes.

Treybizttu wrote: It's getting better looking

+1

I know you probably don't have enough things to spend money on but I think you may want to put an Acme 1442 in your future, the rebuilt 4 blade (original?) will make a great spare.

you know, the more I look at it, the more I like the white tower on the white hull. it actually surprises me that I do, but that sucker looks sharp

IAughtNaut wrote: you know, the more I look at it, the more I like the white tower on the white hull. it actually surprises me that I do, but that sucker looks sharp

My buddy that is helping with the motor told me to PC' it black and I said noooo. I like the black ones but I really like the white myself.

If anything I might freshen up the white if I do the trailer next winter.

Trey

Updates aren't all that much as most of my time out of the office the last few weeks has been spent with family.

Few Items Off the list:

-Pulled the Factory Clarion Tape Player and 6 CD changer out. Tape player was beyond dead but I'm pretty sure the changer works... if anybody still uses those things you are welcome to it :)
-Removed the Factory Ballast Gauges and Dash Mounted Valves.
Leads me to a question: There are several wires from the dead ended into the ballast guages. Should I just seal them up and tuck them up out of the way?
-Finished up all the through hull fittings and ran new bilge hoses.
- Discovered both Bilge pumps are toast and brittle.
- Traced all of the wiring around under the helm and with the exception of the brown bilge wire (my other thread) and the positive cable into the PME everything looks good. Positive terminal on the PME is corroded and I will replace the ring. Doesn't look like a marine grade ring.
- Both of the 12v accessory plugs are toast. Crumbled in my hands.
-Pulled the driver seat out to better clean it and under it plus it gave me better access to the driver panel.
-Since I removed the ballast gauges and valves I'm making some HDPE cover plates.
- Installed the rebuilt prop and new strut... Before I did this you could spin the driveshaft by hand. With the new strut it's hard to turn??? Could I have misaligned the strut somehow? There wasn't really any wiggle room where the bolts went through the hull or the strut itself.


And some progress Pictures.

Treybizttu wrote: -Removed the Factory Ballast Gauges and Dash Mounted Valves. Leads me to a question: There are several wires from the dead ended into the ballast guages. Should I just seal them up and tuck them up out of the way?

Most likely you're fine. The exception would be, and I don't think it applies here but I don't know for sure, would be if the Positive wire (usually purple) or the ground wire (usually black) going to those gauges are part of a daisy chain setup.

In other words, on the older boats, they would just take the ignition positive (purple) and just "hop" from the positive post of one gauge, to the next, to the next. I don't know for sure whether or not they were still doing that at the time your boat was made.

If so, you'd just have to make sure if something you want to keep working, that is part of the same daisy chain, is still getting it's power feed. And, likewise for the ground.

Treybizttu wrote: ... Edit: I take that back. If you look at the picture above you can see the purple and black both of which came from the main harness direct and dead-ended into the guages.

In that case, you're good. Just make sure you tape them up in such away, that they can't directly touch one another. In other words, Purple directly touching black would create a short.

FCC:



:)))))

My Dash vent toob thread reminded me to reply to all this mess..

Stole a battery from something else and started testing things.
Bilge Pumps, Ballast Pumps, Horn, Radio, and Blower are all functional now. New Keypad works as it should as well.
Only thing I didn't have to replace was the horn

This weekends stuff:
Re-wired and installed all the new lights on the trailer. They all work like a charm. Went with clear lenses and LEDs because bling bling.

Installed the Dash Vent Toobs... Holy moly I had to make myself a pretzel to get in there.
Cleaned up some of the new wiring to the bilges and ballast pumps.

Vaccumed it up again. (Notice my one nice cushion that came from the Christines $20 bargin bin.

Finished this up for now... Need to get my gunnel cushions back in to install the remaining 3 speakers but I'm waiting until the motor is back in. Crazy how small HU's have gotten now that they don't have tape or CD players in them anymore.


Cleaned this thing up and stuck the new Injectors in it since they aren't returnable. I probably won't need this now that I bought a complete motor so it's for sale.

The Boy "helped"