Eric, Dearbomatic

Bruce, I hope you had the oil dry handy!!

This is a picture of the riser that you should have on your 6. It sure would be helpfull with solving your 90 degree exhaust hose problem.



It's from this thread:

65 mustang

Riley wrote: My riser is straight. ]

I know,that's why I mentioned it. You may what to start looking for a bent riser.

Bruce, What about the one from Barr I posted?

Bruce, The Barr elbow is in this thread:

exhaust hose

It's about 3/4 of the way down the page. Keep in mind that I mentioned that the rubber elbows from West are 3" and not the 2-1/2" that you need. That's why I went looking for a 2-1/2 you could use.

Steve's (62 wood) manifold has the downward bend in his manifold as well. I wonder how you ended up with the straight? The bent riser sure would be nice if you were able to find one.

You mentioned that you thought that you had a larger V8 dog house. Do you think this boat has been re powered at one time hence the wrong riser?

Bruce, Check with Steve on that little hose. With his thermostat problems at Green lake, I think he had it on and off about 20 times!!!! You remove the thermostat housing.

I feel you would only need 1 elbow to make the turn down before the hose hits the dog house. The exhaust hose itself will make the second bend towards the stern in the bilge.

Thanks Tim, I'll keep that in mind as a last resort because that would really eat into my budget. But, if I get fed up with this old technology and decide to go with a new PCM 5.7...

Eric, did it arrive ok?

Great news! Thanks. Don't they take Ford O Matic parts? (if they even make them any more?)

8122pbrainard wrote: Eric, I understand that you may be working on another Dearbomatic. When looking for my 312 engine decals, I ran accross this father and son team that are into Centurys. That have 4 that they have restored and all have the original 312's with the Dearbomatics. I know 2 are the down angles, 1 is a V drive and the other is I believe a just a straight drive. I just thought that if you run into a problem with any of the internals that they may be able to help. Steven J. and Steven R. Hilpisch E-mail: skhilpisch@sbcglobal.net Day phone: 317 230 5954

Eric, give them a call to see if they found gaskets.
Glad to hear it's in good shape.

thanks Pete, I'll give them a call on Moanday and shoot the sht with them, some of the internals are identical to the Merc II trans made by Mercury, all taken from the ford FMX transmissions. the plates are the same as Borg warners, paragons, Fords
By looking at this transmssion which is a little different than the last one i did, the bolt pattern to the bellhousing is the same as a BW and the stack-up is pretty close to them also, it does use a 4" coupling and for future reference if someone wanted to go to a BW it would be an easy conversion, though you would have to go with thwe BW 26 spline input shaft drive plate

Eric, I found a pic of the tranny that shows the lines. I plan on replacing them with SS or rubber.

Should be a couple of weeks. Then I've got a few more things to take apart. Then I start the floor.

I got my tranny back from Eric at Fantastic Finish Marine. This is how it looked went I sent it to him.



This is how it looks now. Really nice. I hate to paint it. Thanks, Eric.

Bruce, Lookin good!! I too think you should paint it when you paint the engine. It will be more original plus, it looks good now but it does need some protection. Even though your not in salt water, I feel you will get some white rusting on it.

use a self etching zinc or primer so it bites into the raw aluminum, for some reason paint hates sticking to the aluminum and will chip and crack easily