americanmcss
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Hello everyone. I have seen this done a lot on car forums and thought this might be a cool thing to do here. This is going to be my "buildup thread" for our family boat.
Little history: 1990 Bayliner Capri 2050 CX. Has 5.0L Mercruiser with Alpha One Gen One Outdrive Purchased the boat in January. When we bought it, we knew the water impeller in the outdrive was shot. Since this is officially our first boat, we decided to take it to a local boat shop to have it done. When we took it there, the mechanic immediately noticed that our engine block was cracked in multiple places. They quoted us something in the $5000 dollar range to have a new (or reman, not sure) engine put in and have the outdrive fixed. Little bit of sticker shock for the new boat owners but we knew going into the whole thing that boat meant "bust out another thousand".
Better picture of the truck than the boat but this is the day we took it home. One of the few days the Pacific northwest saw snow this past winter...
Long story short, we decided to do the majority of the work ourselves with the help of forums of course, and service manuals. The three owners (myself, my father, and my brother in law) are all very mechanically inclined and once we got over the fear of doing the project we jumped right in.
We are having a new engine built by a local machine shop, the owner of which is my brother in laws friend, and since everything in our engine is ok besides the block it should be a fairly simple switch. So far we have pulled the engine and the outdrive, and have the engine down to a long block ready for the machine shop. Last night we pulled the boat off the trailer and are prepairing for a two week haul on doing a ground up restore on the trailer
List of plans for the entire package
1. Upgrade bad 5.0 to 5.7 (not really performance, just reliable)
will include custom paint on engine to match theme of the boat
2. Replace bellows and gimble bearing in transom assembly
3. Replace cracked and worn water hoses.
4. New exhaust manifolds and risers
5. Fiberglass and paint some "mistakes" the P/O made
6. Remove old decals and replace with custom made ones
7. Clean carpets and vinyls
8. Ground up restore on the trailer with custom paint wheels and LED lights
I will keep everyone posted with new pictures and updates (that is if anyone subscribes). Anyone who has gone through a similar process: if there is something that you learned while doing this any advice or things to look for would be helpful.
Little history: 1990 Bayliner Capri 2050 CX. Has 5.0L Mercruiser with Alpha One Gen One Outdrive Purchased the boat in January. When we bought it, we knew the water impeller in the outdrive was shot. Since this is officially our first boat, we decided to take it to a local boat shop to have it done. When we took it there, the mechanic immediately noticed that our engine block was cracked in multiple places. They quoted us something in the $5000 dollar range to have a new (or reman, not sure) engine put in and have the outdrive fixed. Little bit of sticker shock for the new boat owners but we knew going into the whole thing that boat meant "bust out another thousand".
Better picture of the truck than the boat but this is the day we took it home. One of the few days the Pacific northwest saw snow this past winter...
Long story short, we decided to do the majority of the work ourselves with the help of forums of course, and service manuals. The three owners (myself, my father, and my brother in law) are all very mechanically inclined and once we got over the fear of doing the project we jumped right in.
We are having a new engine built by a local machine shop, the owner of which is my brother in laws friend, and since everything in our engine is ok besides the block it should be a fairly simple switch. So far we have pulled the engine and the outdrive, and have the engine down to a long block ready for the machine shop. Last night we pulled the boat off the trailer and are prepairing for a two week haul on doing a ground up restore on the trailer
List of plans for the entire package
1. Upgrade bad 5.0 to 5.7 (not really performance, just reliable)
will include custom paint on engine to match theme of the boat
2. Replace bellows and gimble bearing in transom assembly
3. Replace cracked and worn water hoses.
4. New exhaust manifolds and risers
5. Fiberglass and paint some "mistakes" the P/O made
6. Remove old decals and replace with custom made ones
7. Clean carpets and vinyls
8. Ground up restore on the trailer with custom paint wheels and LED lights
I will keep everyone posted with new pictures and updates (that is if anyone subscribes). Anyone who has gone through a similar process: if there is something that you learned while doing this any advice or things to look for would be helpful.
