351 rebuild components

I don't know why i did that twice, well, 3:30am.

Bump for a good read I guess.

Alan: If ya got the time, shoot me a phone number to my e-mail (on my profile); senior moment, lost your number.

john

Thanks for the kind words, advice encouragement along the way guys. I wouldn't even have attempted this if not for this site. This was a very rewarding (and Ambitious) project for me and I was still nervous until we actually got under way yesterday.

All's left now is to get some hours on it, a little fiddling with carb and tuning, and some experimenting with props later on.

Pat, we'll see you saturday.

Jbear, we'll get down to see you some day.

MM, Gotta get some pics of our boats side by each. I'm thinking she'll be green by July? Have a good week all.

Good job Alan I was watching the sky for you this morning . Hopeing you were going to make it to the water . Glad to hear it all went great .

Pat

Well the rain came and went and we finally made it to the river. Our test drive went flawlessly. I am blown away by the holeshot the boat has and we only had the 13x13 oj on today. Can't wait to get some more hours on it so we can start playing around with props and see what it's got for top end. So far the package we put together seems to be a winner. The boat jumps out of the water and climbs to 4000 very quickly, that was as hard as I pushed for today but it wants to run. The throttle response is awesome, can you tell I'm stoked.

Here's a few pics, to top it off the river was like glass and we basically had it to ourselves.

Tim,

The clamp is just a spring loaded type, looks sort of like a clothes pin. Clamped on to the pushrod. You might also be able to use a small c clamp.

Looks like we'll finally drop mine in the water sunday for it's maiden voyage. Can't believe it's been ready for a month and there's just no free time to play with it.

Munday wrote: Great job 81 been watching your post.Love the blue paint very clean job congrats.Seems there is always one leak to deal with esp on ford wqter pumps.I've been using this gasket adhesive called "The Right Stuff" permatex will work even when parts are wet and disassembly not to bad. Munday

Thank Munday, I'll pick some up and give it try. Still can't believe of all the things that could have gone wrong the water pump is leaking.

Sounds great Alan . Cograts on the succesful rebuild .

Pat

That engine looks HOT!!! Good luck with the fire up .

Pat

I think I just found my new screen saver.

It rained all day so my plans to pull the boat off the trailer and clean the bottom changed to inside work. I decided to drop the engine in. Got about 95% done. Still have some wiring to tidy up, adjust throttle and shift cables, align it and finish hooking up the raw water supply and I'll be ready to fire it up next weekend. keeping my fingers crossed.

Thanks guys.

Doc, I know what you mean, I've assembled this thing 20 times in my head. Took my time and tried to check everything I did atleast 2-3 times. Keep your fingers crossed.

MM, I mounted the carb without the spacer plate for now and the carb sits at exactly the same height as it would with the old cast iron intake and spacer. The old steel fuel line bolted right on without any mods so I know the flame arrestor will fit.I may put the spacer on later and see if there is any difference in performance but for I'm good to go.

Will we be at Green Lake, absofloginlutley, see you there.

Looks nice Alan. Hope it runs as good as it looks. BKH

81, Looks too good to start,all that work pays off.
I don't know about you , but when I get this stage of the game , I start to ask myself all kinds of questions.
Rod bolt torque,did i do them all the same.
main bolts ditto above
did i do this , did i do that???????
The BS if fixin' ta stop, when I turn tha prop..............Boat dr gives you a 10

TRBenj wrote: Are you getting your new pushrods from summit?

Yes, they were a little more money than I wanted to spend but I couldn't get the lenght I wanted in a standard heat treated steel pushrod. Had to go with Crane chrome molley.