BlewByYou88
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I know its not that cold in AZ right now, but the ol' girl is still laid up for the winter. I've decided to just make one thread for my little proiects and would like some feeback as I am going along to see how everyone likes, or dislikes what I am doing. I hope this will help ale some of you that are going stir-crazy in the snow.
There isn't much wrong with the boat, but I want to change, upgrade, and fix things Sea Ray messed up.
On my last outting, my oil pressures seemed quite low, so I'm going to be installing new oil pumps, install manual flush head system, Rewire the battery switching, and do some dash work. Feel free to chime in with any feedback.
Preparing for work. My neighbors call her the great white whale.
Started bulding the gantry to hoist the engines out. Even the g/f came to help.
Gantry assembled and ready to start removing the engines.
This is a dang, tight squeez. I can't imagine what brainiac thought it would be a good idea to make this set up. The engine mounts are impossible to get to, I had to use some creative socketing to get to them and loosen them. I'm not excited to put them back in,
The money shot, I figured I would go along with my fellow boaters who have pulled their engines themselves and do the pose with one of the twins by the boat.
With the engines out, I'm going to start rewiring the power ditribution wires and add some batt switches. I found out that the port engine and generator never disconnected. I only have one batt switch and it was controling the house, and STBD main engine. This isn't right, and I'm going to move the switches to a more desireable location so I don't have to open the engine hatch to just flip switches.
The engines we going to have to come out anyway fr the holding tank when I get it, so, I'm going to take this time to clean things up.
While I have them out, I want to do some routine maintanence like changing plug wires, New Trim Senders and Limits, Bellows, Exhaust flaps, fresh water tube that goes through the gimble housing, bigger bilge pump, plus I have to get the new holding tank down in there when it arrives. So, staty tuned, this will be a long drawn out project since I travel a lot for work and only have limited time to work on the boat, but I will post what I can when I can! Enjoy!
There isn't much wrong with the boat, but I want to change, upgrade, and fix things Sea Ray messed up.
On my last outting, my oil pressures seemed quite low, so I'm going to be installing new oil pumps, install manual flush head system, Rewire the battery switching, and do some dash work. Feel free to chime in with any feedback.
Preparing for work. My neighbors call her the great white whale.
Started bulding the gantry to hoist the engines out. Even the g/f came to help.
Gantry assembled and ready to start removing the engines.
This is a dang, tight squeez. I can't imagine what brainiac thought it would be a good idea to make this set up. The engine mounts are impossible to get to, I had to use some creative socketing to get to them and loosen them. I'm not excited to put them back in,
The money shot, I figured I would go along with my fellow boaters who have pulled their engines themselves and do the pose with one of the twins by the boat.
With the engines out, I'm going to start rewiring the power ditribution wires and add some batt switches. I found out that the port engine and generator never disconnected. I only have one batt switch and it was controling the house, and STBD main engine. This isn't right, and I'm going to move the switches to a more desireable location so I don't have to open the engine hatch to just flip switches.
The engines we going to have to come out anyway fr the holding tank when I get it, so, I'm going to take this time to clean things up.
While I have them out, I want to do some routine maintanence like changing plug wires, New Trim Senders and Limits, Bellows, Exhaust flaps, fresh water tube that goes through the gimble housing, bigger bilge pump, plus I have to get the new holding tank down in there when it arrives. So, staty tuned, this will be a long drawn out project since I travel a lot for work and only have limited time to work on the boat, but I will post what I can when I can! Enjoy!