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  1. Lou C

    Crankcase Venting

  2. Lou C

    Looking for bare engine block with pistons

  3. Lou C

    Looking for bare engine block with pistons

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNrck2VLai4 for a treat, fast forward to 1:14, turn the volume all the way UP! On a cold December day in 1977 I was picking my younger brother up at SUNY Stony Brook for winter recess. Not far from Grumman's Calverton facility. We heard an F-14 flying up in the...
  4. Lou C

    Looking for bare engine block with pistons

  5. Lou C

    Looking for bare engine block with pistons

    Looking great. I love your shop. I do everything on my back in the driveway. My garage is tiny, 1940s era house, about the size of a Model A Ford lol. Only car I ever put in there was my '89 Toyota Corolla GTS. After doing this for oh 45+ years its getting old! When I did the top end overhaul I...
  6. Lou C

    DP-SM prop shaft seal and setting rolling torque?

    Here's a pic...see the bolts and the rod through the trim ram rod hole...using the scissor jacks will separate the units with no damage....
  7. Lou C

    New boater. New to loading boat

    With rollers it is a process of trying different depths till you find the one that works best for retrieving, if you are too shallow it may roll back, if you are too deep you will not hit the rear rollers and the stern of the boat may float sideways if there is any current or wind. When I was...
  8. Lou C

    Looking for bare engine block with pistons

    NY is very bad, it spread like wild fire through our excellent mass transit system in NYC and then out to Long Island (where I am) and Westchester County (where I used live long time ago). The suburbs are now really starting to feel it. Here you can still shop for food and other essentials. Not...
  9. Lou C

    Looking for bare engine block with pistons

    putting the old 4.3 back together....painted in OMC Charcoal Grey
  10. Lou C

    Volvo Penta 5.7 GSI TBI year 2000

    You could have a corroded trim relay that is causing it to operate without pushing the trim button on the control or even the trim switch on the control could stick. Either way that will pull a ton of amps out of the battery and finding a dead battery is not surprising, then. The stock wiring on...
  11. Lou C

    Nola Mike's 3.7/470 --> 4.3L swap thread

    Here are the pix, of a pre-vortec to vortec conversion...done by Michigan Motors....notice the old PS pump and alt were used with the old pulleys...I'm not sure if they had to do something special to make this work or what, but it LOOKS like it can be done!
  12. Lou C

    Looking for bare engine block with pistons

    what I used...
  13. Lou C

    Looking for bare engine block with pistons

    it is the second style with the center elbow. the first is for the older model V/P engines, looks like a Ford V8 set up. BTW, in my neck of the woods the 2 shops where I order parts, will not even order parts from GLM...they are referred to as GOOD LUCK MARINE. See if you can find something...
  14. Lou C

    Heat Shrink melted wiring together - please avoid my mistake

    gents, there is more than one way to solve a problem.
  15. Lou C

    Back on the Water

    I have not heard anything about whether or not marinas are considered essential services in NY but they are in both NJ and Ct, so maybe if we are lucky our boatyard that is right in my neighborhood will be able to drop moorings and do bottom painting. If not then I have another big project to...
  16. Lou C

    No Pressure After Oil Change

    Nope they used a one way check valve that screws into each exhaust elbow, when a vacuum develops in the exhaust system due to the exhaust pulses of the V6 Vortec engine, this valve allows air into the exhaust, to break the vacuum and stop water from being sucked up the exhaust pipe that connects...
  17. Lou C

    Thermostat Clean-Out.-

    Yep that's for sure, it won't be too bad if you are trailering though, but forget about keeping exhaust manifolds and elbows for like 10+ years...Boat US once put out a chart...listing about how long you get in salt water before virtually 100% probablility of failure....its about 8 years...so we...
  18. Lou C

    VP special tools and part costs?

    Maybe muc can answer that, of all the people on the board here... As far as boat size, your deadrise also determines ride quality. My '88 H-200 is 20'9" and has a 21* deadrise at the stern and sharp bow entry and as such it rides excellent for a boat its size. One of the reasons why I kept it...
  19. Lou C

    Mercruiser GM V6 and V8 oil pressure

    Well on my old engine (both before and after the top end rebuild I did back in '17) I have always had different oil pressure readings at idle depending on operational conditions. For example, after a cold start oil pressure has always been at or slightly above 40. And as long as the engine has...
  20. Lou C

    New to me Boat, did I make the right move...plan on towing

    Our home port....
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