New to this forum and thanks for all the great information so far. I have a question I'd like to ask everyone's opinion on. This spring I plan on pulling both our engines and either rebuild them myself or purchase remanufactured long blocks. The boat has been out of the water for a better part of three years now, I was in for a few months in 2013 and both engines ran. We developed a leak on one of the elbows off the raiser, but when we pulled off the elbow we found the raiser was cracked so we replaced that as well. Towards the end of that season that same engine started getting harder and harder to start. We pulled the boat out for winter storage, than in the spring we could not get the engine to rotate at all. So, I'm going to pull both engines this spring to get them running again. I believe these are the original engines to the boat and believe it or not they only have about 600 hours on them, so these engines sat a lot. To top is all off, the drain plug was never removed during winter storage and the engine compartment was full of water when I opened it up last spring. from what I can tell no water got on the engines, but they need to be pulled just to make sure. So, what do you think my best approach would be? I'm in no rush to get them back in the boat, I'm sure I'll need to do some serious fiberglass work, maybe replace a stringer or two, so I have time.
Thanks again
Ben
Thanks again
Ben