I just bought an abandoned project boat. It's a 1957 Higgins 17 footer, and looks to be in surprisingly decent shape. The Chrysler 6-cyl flathead engine is out of the boat, and I'm picking it up tomorrow. Today I brought home the engine doghouse and all the (newly recovered) seats, as well as all of the hardware, steering wheel, gas tank, port/strb front light, windshield (but no windshield frame, plywood inner panels, etc.
The Chrysler flat-head 6 is a model R. Can anyone confirm this engine was designated by Chrysler as the Crown engine? Can anyone point me to a source for engine tune-up specs, or a manual?
The boat has no bottom--the previous owner damaged the original plywood bottom scraping paint in order to repaint, and then he removed the plywood, but then stopped working on it. Fine with me. The frame work looks fine--no rot that I can see, but I don't have the boat in my shed just yet. I am thinking I'll put a 5200 bottom on it. It originally had a 1/2" marine grade mahog. bottom I believe.
Are there any Higgins owners here?
The Chrysler flat-head 6 is a model R. Can anyone confirm this engine was designated by Chrysler as the Crown engine? Can anyone point me to a source for engine tune-up specs, or a manual?
The boat has no bottom--the previous owner damaged the original plywood bottom scraping paint in order to repaint, and then he removed the plywood, but then stopped working on it. Fine with me. The frame work looks fine--no rot that I can see, but I don't have the boat in my shed just yet. I am thinking I'll put a 5200 bottom on it. It originally had a 1/2" marine grade mahog. bottom I believe.
Are there any Higgins owners here?
