Re: Getting on with boat re-build
Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:18 pm
Hmmmm I was thinking the same thing :rofl:rb85 wrote:Motor service after 0 running hours since project commencement?
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Hmmmm I was thinking the same thing :rofl:rb85 wrote:Motor service after 0 running hours since project commencement?
Yeah, it's a ripper of a bait board, BUT, it protrudes well back as I've previously mentioned, and with the transom raised 5 inches,rb85 wrote:Look forward to seeing how the stainless looks on hull.
Na, sold the old motor Smile, will bolt on a new 4 stroke.smile0784 wrote:By tue time you get this.all done the motor will be due for service or trailer needs.work lol.blacklab99 wrote:Can I take you fishing in instead ! LOL
I must admit, as I gather everything and get it ready, it is very satisfying,
Mind, I'll be glad when I'm "project" free, and I can just go out and have a fish !!!
But something tells me, there's always something that needs to be fixed up.
hope all's well
Col
Always something to do with a boat.
And if not theres always rod amd reel servicing amd making of sinkers.lol.
A motor sitting around is bad. Seals to hard after few monthsrb85 wrote:Motor service after 0 running hours since project commencement?
Hey blacklabblacklab99 wrote:Yeah, it's a ripper of a bait board, BUT, it protrudes well back as I've previously mentioned, and with the transom raised 5 inches,rb85 wrote:Look forward to seeing how the stainless looks on hull.
I have this dark feeling it will have to be cut and modify it with the new fourstroke,,, i couldn't put the old motor up fully with the lower transom.
I'll tell you what though RB, 0000 stainless wool drowned in wd40, makes a beautiful job of cleaning up stainless, underneath was surface rust and gunge like you wouldn't believe, but that and the rocket launcher came up brilliant.
I'll sit it in place tomorrow, Was nick named the " fish and chip vat" by mates that came out with me LOL, but it's stirdy, has 4 good rod holders in it
and good storage. So I'll bolt it on and worry about any Mod's when the new motors fitted......
Col
If your just buying a motor when you need it for install. It will be good.blacklab99 wrote:Na, sold the old motor Smile, will bolt on a new 4 stroke.smile0784 wrote:By tue time you get this.all done the motor will be due for service or trailer needs.work lol.blacklab99 wrote:Can I take you fishing in instead ! LOL
I must admit, as I gather everything and get it ready, it is very satisfying,
Mind, I'll be glad when I'm "project" free, and I can just go out and have a fish !!!
But something tells me, there's always something that needs to be fixed up.
hope all's well
Col
Always something to do with a boat.
And if not theres always rod amd reel servicing amd making of sinkers.lol.
But you are right about other maintenance, the trailer was new and only had 1/2 a season before i took it off the road,
Dunbier use a Chinese tyre on there trailers and a mate of mine at the tyre shop, advised me to swap them out in no more than 3-4 years, and even with it being sitting for so long, she will get 4 new tyres and bearing job, your right it doesn't end.
Then there's the "irrigation system" i want to put under the trailer, so it will just be a connect up, turn the tap on and the irrigation sprayers do there work. Saw one on a guys boat a while back, it completely flushed the whole trailer with the system, so that's on the list as well.....
Col
Hey Barra,barra mick wrote:Hey blacklabblacklab99 wrote:Yeah, it's a ripper of a bait board, BUT, it protrudes well back as I've previously mentioned, and with the transom raised 5 inches,rb85 wrote:Look forward to seeing how the stainless looks on hull.
I have this dark feeling it will have to be cut and modify it with the new fourstroke,,, i couldn't put the old motor up fully with the lower transom.
I'll tell you what though RB, 0000 stainless wool drowned in wd40, makes a beautiful job of cleaning up stainless, underneath was surface rust and gunge like you wouldn't believe, but that and the rocket launcher came up brilliant.
I'll sit it in place tomorrow, Was nick named the " fish and chip vat" by mates that came out with me LOL, but it's stirdy, has 4 good rod holders in it
and good storage. So I'll bolt it on and worry about any Mod's when the new motors fitted......
Col
How long until its finished...???
It's taken a while but I know how it is...it took me 9 months to finish my boat...nearly killed me fishing off piers
Cheers bm
I seen 2 diffent system.blacklab99 wrote:Smile,
The trick with those irrigation systems, is to buy the quality ones.
The one I saw, the bloke had had his on , had it on for a few years. You can swap out the sprayer extension pieces pretty easily. I'ts actually not
that expensive to do,, the standard system for your garden is pretty durable with U.V light etc, maybe the salt water effects it a bit, so I would suspect while hosing the boat down you would also give that a quick gurney. Even if I get 2 years out of it, that's well worth the relatively small outlay of what it would cost me thinks, compared to how simple it will be to thoroughly rinse off the trailer, with little effort, I think it's worth the effort, we'll see I suppose........
Col