What motor do I have?

Hollywood wrote: Yes Chris, and the plastic manifold elbow reminds me of an Indmar.

Bare in mind PCM used plastic elbows as well for many years.

pmgIA wrote: Rough crowd,

Patrick, not a rough crowd just looking out for you and trying to inform (or be informed) and save folks some $!

With some help, I think you could probably tackle some of these projects yourself. You seem like you are interested enough in these boats to want to take on some minor projects and are willing to learn. Here are my thoughts on your last post.

Fuel system:
I would guess you'd want to have the marina do the fuel line. Since this is a pretty important thing to get right, you might want to have them do it? Just my $.02

Gel:
Your boat does feel very solid for the brief time I spent in it, and she seems to run great. As far as the gel goes, you can wetsand and buff the deck to make it look like new. I didn't notice any stress cracks of spider webs on your deck so there is no need to re-gel. If you do the hull, you might have to get rid of those vinyl graphics and go back to original    Check out this thread on repainting the graphics on these 70's boats. It was very informative and turned out great! graphics update

When you clean it up this fall, give toilet bowl cleaner a shot. I've had good luck with it on our hull to take away the yellow tint.

Motor:
As far as the motor goes, our 88 had 1,900 hrs and ran perfect. I sold the boat to ryan (form&function) and he planned on doing an overhaul. Once he got into it and did a compression check he couldn't justify spending the money because it was so strong. Point being, just because it has high hours doesn't mean it needs a rebuild. They can still be very strong. Do a compression check and see what she reads. Unless you have other reasons for a rebuild I don't see a reason to.

If you have the marina rebuild the motor, your looking at 4,500 bucks (what I was quoted in DM). I have a buddy who had a 318 chrysler done here in town for 1,000 with a new block, painted but he had to put the motor back in himself. Something you can be capable of with info on this site.   

Interior:
Your carpet looks great, I would think you can get the seat skins from Christine's and have someone put them on locally. Or, if you want you can probably do them yourself.   I started my backseat build last night and was happy with the result thus far. I've got probably 2 hours in it and maybe another 2 before I'm done. The only other thing would be to make some speaker boxes, another project thats been tackled on the site.

Sorry for the novel, but I think you've got a great little boat and think you can do a bunch of work to it yourself with the help of the guys here!

8122pbrainard wrote: storm34 wrote: Fuel system: I would guess you'd want to have the marina do the fuel line. Since this is a pretty important thing to get right, you might want to have them do it? Just my $.02 I don't know Chris, maybe it was a marina who did the "slip some rubber tubing over the cut off old steel line and hope it holds without even a barbed fitting trick"!!!

Could be Pete! I went to look at a boat last fall at a Correct Craft dealership in that area (I wont name) and it was a basket case. He started it up and water started pouring out the riser onto the floor! I had driven 2.5 hrs to look at it because he said it was in great shape and completely solid. Not the case, and they were asking good $ for a beat to sh*7 boat!

I would replace the fuel line with CG approved line. All line today is rubber or high pressure with FI. The rubber line will install easier, neater and above all will help the vapor lock problems. The vibrations with the metal become brittle at the flanges and they can will crack and leak in time.For the life of me if they would have put the double flange as for brakes that problem would go away.