84 2001 engine pics/ look ok?

Guys, been here only a couple weeks, but am impressed at the depth of knowledge. Would you mind scanning these for obvious issues. I think it is solid, and it ran great on lake yesterday. But if you could call out issues, wrong distrib, etc I’d appreciate it.

Much more water ingress yesterday than expected. Assuming prop shaft packing. Can’t freewheel prop at all. ( Edit: false, it freewheels just fine as I remove flange bolts ) About to disassemble to check alignment. Setup looks a lot like that of our long departed 99 Moomba.

Thank you for reviewing pics. Boss (David) was very focused on this boat.   I found empty box from a new Sherwood with a 2009 copyright ref, so at least it’s been done before. Need to report back to him soon on utilization of boat, feeling pressure to make it right and show pics of boat and skiers.    Am scope creep aware, no noises from that area. Pulled sons 86MC trans to sleeve the input shaft and wound up investing in that damper. Maybe this winter for this boat.


Keno, thank you, and great stewardship on that young man’s boat thread, Richmond area, shows character sir!