Makes sense! I posted a pic as an attachment but I may of done that incorrectly. Only trips have been engine trials so not much there to take pics of.
Boat looks great! I like that dash lay out. We have also talked about the full enclosure canvas as well. That looks good on there.
It’s a bit of a long story. The guy who owned the boat had passed away suddenly about 2 years ago. I bought it from his older son who knew nothing about the boat so I had to decide if It was worth the risk. All I knew was that it had sat for about 2 years with water in the block and the starboard exhaust manifold was already off with a new one ready to go. After I looked over everything else, I decided to take a chance and bought the boat and trailer assuming I would be replacing the engine. When I started digging into it, a compression test revealed cyl 5 had very low compression and cyl 3 was lower than the rest. I pulled the head and it was warped. I pulled the other head and a lot of water came out when I separated the head gasket because all of the passages In the head gasket were blocked. My guess is that he was chasing over heating issues. I pulled the engine from the boat and pulled the freeze plugs. Large chunks of metal and sand kept coming out of the cooling passages. Because it was a sea water cooled engine, I didn’t want to take any chances with baking and rebuilding the existing block so I bought a marine long block. Continuously dealing with internal engine issues is not on my bucket list. The water pump was also trashed with internal rust and the oil pan had rotted out (had to remove the 3 layers of JB weld smeared on the bottom to figure that out). Aside from one of the risers, I was able transfer everything else over to the new block. Unfortunately, I didn’t take any pictures of what the passages looked like when I pulled the freeze plugs. We have had the boat out a few times now and she starts right up and runs cool and smooth.
