Re: 1982 Aquasport floor/stringer rebuild
Got layer of glass on bottom of floor for gas tank
Also got stringer tops put in place to pour foam Monday if temp holds. Pieces are held together with 1/4 in ply covered with packing tape and srewed to the stringer parts, after pouring will remove and...
Re: 1982 Aquasport floor/stringer rebuild
Finally some desent weather to get some more work done...got thehull bottom sanded .. there was a soft area of the center short stringer, so I cut it out and replaced it also cut it down shorter as the gas tank will sit on a flat platform glassed to the...
What is the best cloth to use for redoing a floor on a c/c, going to cover top and bottom, do I use the same weight fglass on both, I know to use biaxial, is 17oz to heavy or ? Thanks for any input...
Re: 1982 Aquasport floor/stringer rebuild
Pics of foam being removed, you can get about 30 inches of reach with that shovel up into voids.. Going to be letting it dry out for a few days while I wait for my foam and fglass cloth and epoxy to get here.
Re: 1982 Aquasport floor/stringer rebuild
Todays chore was remove tops of stringers and remove foam.. Foranyone who is about to do this I highly recommend a sharpshooter shovel(linemans shovel) makes getting foam out a lot easier..Took me less than 45 minutes to remove foam from both stringers...
Re: 1982 Aquasport floor/stringer rebuild
Got the wet foam out today, starboard side was soaked bad, had to get rags to get the extra water out, port side wet but not nearly as much...foam weighted about 235 lbs when out and bagged....took a couple of core drill samples on stringers and to no...
Re: 1982 Aquasport floor/stringer rebuild
Need some of you guys who have done rebuild before to look at this and advise, I was told transom was redone a couple of years ago, it seems solid except one spot by starboard side rear scupper, a spot about 1 1/2 inch diam. seems soft , I will prob...
Re: 1982 Aquasport floor/stringer rebuild
Got the floor out today, surprise, surprise, foam is soaked, put a crow bar in it and got squirted. As you can see in the last pic this boat must have been made on a Friday...Going to remove foam and core drill both stringers on Friday and going to...
I have a few soft spots in the floor so it's time to tear it out and replace floor and check the foam filled stringers for water. Couple of questions about materials to use on stringers , will be using epoxy but need input on types of fglass cloth. 1708 for the stringers? with mat or not? What...
I have a 92 Johnson 150 that when you tilt it up for travel it leaks some fuel out and it runs down the midsection, not a bunch but enough to see and have to wipe off. My local marine mechanic said this is normal but how much is to much? He told me that when tilted for travel fuel will run out...
I have a 82 aquasport 20 ft C/C, while replacing the fuel lines earlier this season, noticed some of the foam between stringers and hull outsides has a little water in it. would this cause the boat to ride a little lower in the water( it wasn't saturated) and would it be benificial to take out...
Has anyone used or is using Amsoil 2 cycle Synthetic oil in place of TC-W3. The Johnson dealer here that I deal with is trying to talk me into trying it, says he uses it and alot of his customers are starting to use it. It's mixed 100:1 no matter what , can only be used premix (which I...
I have a 1992 Johnson 150 that I have mounted on the boat , but I do not have a wiring harness for it.I have the controls but not the plug in harness. I need to get the boat to a shop to have a harness found and other work done, but I must be able to tilt the motor up to tow it to them...Any...
I have a 1982 aquasport C/C rated for 185 horsepower. Would it be a real problem to put a 200 HP motor on this size boat? Is the 15 extra horsepower and the added 40-50 pounds of weight going to cause problems?..
Newbie to outboards, I have a 82 Aquasport center Console 20 ft, 45 gal fuel tank in floor,no motor on it(redoing hull), it's rated for max HP at 185, so what would be a good all around motor size to use on this. We will be doing some offshore fishing as well as lake run around. No more than...
