New to me 78 Tique

If your using your original shaft, make sure it is not fretted before you commit to it.

We just installed a Commander in our Tique last fall and I was surprised how easy it lined up. All the mounts moved up and down and sideways. Don't yours?

I would lay it in place without moving the mounts from when you took it out.

Put the shaft back exactly where it lines up with the wear from the cutlass bearing. See where you sit and then decide a plan of action on adjustments etc, before drilling anything at all.

Use shims & 2x4 blocks to stabilize the engine while you are finding alignment
   

Any helpful tips on aligning the engine with these motor mounts now that pics of them are posted? It is our worry. Finished the primaries with another layer of mat and woven last night. Now on to bilge paint and bulkheads. Then floor.

David,
With the prop shaft in, centered in the log and "happy" in the strut, get the engine as close to aligned to the shaft as possible. Hold off drill any mount holes into the stringers till the very last. There are elongated holes in the mounts for very fine adjustment. If worse came to worse, you can fill a misdrilled pilot hole. At least your mounts have vertical adjustment and you don't have to use the wood or cast wedges under them.

rolleronariver wrote: I had issues with my mounts when I did my stringers and went to realign too. I ended up jacking the motor up and taking the mounts off. Then I went to town on taking them apart and freeing them up. .

Chris,
Note that David's mounts are the type that are not adjustable port to starboard.

63 Skier wrote: I think your alignment might end up being more straightforward than you are anticipating. We can see how careful you are with the whole process .

I sure agree!

David, you can get that stick on stuff from Correct Craft dealers. White lake probably stock it. It looks similar to a figure 8 packing peanut when you look at it from a side profile and it has adhesive on one side you peal and stick. It's rubber and insulates/seals pretty well.

Don't remember the part number sorry, Others may know a different source.

McPete to the rescue again.

Been a little lax lately giving updates. So here goes. We have been getting work done.

Taped the letters with 1/8" fine line vinyl masking tape and used frisket to mask. Tried to show this process. Primed with some white and then shot yellow. Did the whole thing with an airbrush. My neighbor who does a lot of airbrush work on model airplanes helped. We actually started spraying the black outline tonight.





In my hand is the "I" frisket that I cut out. Used a hobby knife to cut gently on the fine line tape to remove the frisket from where we wanted to paint.





Note that the correct craft eps file in the ref section has sharp outer edges for the "O". I had two masks printed so I cut up the second to get the rounded corners from other letters for the "O".







Any advice for final sanding and polishing/rubbing compound over the rustoleum. We used regular rustoleum with 25% toluene to paint.

We have glassed in the floor and epoxy painted the bilge. Also put in the air duct pipes and pipe for wires. I don't have a good pic of the latter. Tonight we almost finished the glass work. Have two small items and the muffler. Then on to carpet.





Got our upholstery back from the shop. They did a nice job at what we thought was a reasonable rate. Take a look:

The yellow was and still is my favorite!

After watching you guys work I'm never going to touch my boat again, I'm not worthy.

Just amazing how you roll through difficult detail work with such skill and precision. Really can't wait to see it on the water, but I bet you can't either!

8122pbrainard wrote: The yellow was and still is my favorite!

It ain't easy being Green!

Looks great Guys... I guess you can still get pleated/seamed vinyl?

quinner wrote: Great work guys!! David, without hijacking your thread too much how are you posting/uploading your pics?? I have 2 projects going and would like to update but posting with pics is such a PITA the way I am doing it now

Hey Chris, I use imgbb from my iPhone.....

https://imgbb.com/upload

You guys are doing an impressive job. Nice work.