1986 BFN Rebuild

Carpet looks the part on that boat. Nice!

She is coming along nicely. Looking forward to water pitcures coming season 

Thanks Andrew, your boat certainly is looking a lot better now!

I did some digging in the photos that were made when this boat was disassembled. (2005)
Found this:

First picture showing the engine mounting plates on top of each other. Can anyone confirm this is how its supodsed to be on a 1986 BFN?

Second image showing the transmission mounts, only attached on the top and no bolts on the side. there's quite the gap between the cradle and the mount. Not sure that's the way it's supposed to be...

We found carpet with a correct price and neutral color. Originally we wanted to go with teak like carpet, but quite happy on how the grey turned out.

Last picture also gives a good look on the footrest, it's a bit narrow, but it will do fine I believe. (we could always add a piece to it, if necessary.

Attached the gearbox to the engine, and dropped it into the cradle.

So now come the questions

-Attaching the belhousing to the engine.
I sorted the screws in a separate bag for the belhousing, but these don't seem to match... I have 2 bolts (the longest ones) that fit nicely in the bottom hole, on each side of the housing. (marked in RED below) I'm guessing these are the 2"3/4 ones. above those holes you have the "guide holes" and on top of these you have the Holes for the studs I believe? (GREEN) For the top 2 holes (YELLOW), the blowapart states that I need  2x 1"1/4 bolt. Which are not in the bag. The reason I'm confused is because the bolts I do have in the bag are too long but one has a painted head and the other one doesn't, this would make sense because one of the bolts is installed inside of the bellhousing (under the starter), so it wouldn't be painted over during the painting process)

So either I'm loosing my mind or the machine shop took the bolts out of the bags and switched them up by accident...

-Engine support blocks
I have 4 Engine support blocks, is it possible that there are 2 that go under the engine mount pad and 2 that are placed on the inner side of the transmission mount? Or maybe one on top of the cradle and one beneath it?

Would you install the engine & trans before or after installing the carpet?

Also, if anyone from the EU has some info on shops where we can find carpet, i'm all ears.
We can find some, but its either very expensive or very little choice.

Had a slight setback this weekend when installing the new blower.

Oops...

Well, well, well, Look at that, 3 replies in under 10 minutes... Looks like we're not the only ones beeing motivated by the calendar girls

fanofccfan wrote: The boat looks great!  You must stay busy enough to need 3 wall hanging calendars to keep track of things huh?!?!

Lenny never noticed they had calendar dates on them before.

That is looking fantastic!

When you get on the water, be sure to post some pictures of the local areas.  I love seeing the scenery from different parts of the world.

I think I'm due a small update:

Everything coming together nicely. hoping to source carpet somewhere next week. Engine should be finished soon as well. Quite excited about the progress

Here's a picture from TRB's BFN rebuild thread

A hunk of angle aluminum or stainless steel bolted to the strut mounting bolts with the clamp block bolted it.

Lots of boats were built with that setup.

Fairly close to indestructible mounting and easy too   

You have to get slightly creative.  Instead of bolting into the side of your low primary stringer, you would make a small stainless bracket with a hole in the vertical leg for that bolt with the ball on the end and two holes in the horizontal leg.  Lag the new stainless bracket down to the top of your primary stringer through the horizontal leg  and hook the "ball bolt" to the vertical leg with a nut on each side of the bracket.  Should get the job done.

I suppose you could fiberglass the stainless bracket down to the stringer so you don't put holes in your stringer for the lags.  Or you could fiberglass in a hump into your low stringer and drill hole in it and put the bolt through as originally installed.  Lots of ways to slice this melon!