Eastboundndown
Seaman
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- Apr 21, 2017
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Hello everyone. Recently was gifted a chapparell project boat.. stop laughing..
. Powered with Inboard 5.7 sbc. I am an electrician by trade, have alway been a wrench and screwdriver kinda guy and Figure I’d give it a shot. Got her home about 2 weeks ago and after installing a new battery, removing some of the spaghetti mess and re-wiring what I think to be the necessities to run the engine I disconnected the water/fuel sep. got a fresh can of gas and gave it a whirl.. no start.. then I poured a little fuel down quadrajet and she started up!.. good news.. bad news mechanical FP broken, removed carburetor and that thing needed to be rebuilt 5yrs ago, then noticed an edelbrock auto manifold that was leaking oil was installed... so here is what I did. Removed distributor, T-Stat housing and manifold. After a few calls to local boating supply shops and speaking to a few helpful gentleman I came to this conclusion since a new manifold was going to cost about five or $600 and a freshwater cooling system would probably only cost a few hundred dollars more if I installed it myself I decided I would keep the manifold. I even checked local auto junkyards to see if I could find an older cast iron intake manifold but had no luck..so then I had distributor out, the old manifold off and the broken MFP out. Got a new FP and During installation I bumped the engine so rod was up higher and install was easy. Then installed manifold with new seals and new T-stat with seals.. then After some research on rebuilding the quadrajet and adjusting them I got scared especially since I’m in Ma. And at this point I am still hoping and trying to get boat going for this season. I had an old 2bbl mercarb from a 305 I had years ago that was working when removed so I ordered a carb adapter kit and some gaskets, cleaned it and threw her in..then when I went to reinstall the distributor I realized I did something not so smart.. I lost the timing bumping the engine to install FP.. So now I’m trying to find TDC and so far I have this. Distributor out, #1 plug out and a mark on balancer for top of piston on what I hope to be compression cycle? Then I went to spin the crank counter clockwise and the bolt just loosened?? Wtf! So now I am not sure if someone knows how I can turn this another way... sooo close but stuck. Sorry about the novel but I figured there might b info that may pertain. Thx!!
. Powered with Inboard 5.7 sbc. I am an electrician by trade, have alway been a wrench and screwdriver kinda guy and Figure I’d give it a shot. Got her home about 2 weeks ago and after installing a new battery, removing some of the spaghetti mess and re-wiring what I think to be the necessities to run the engine I disconnected the water/fuel sep. got a fresh can of gas and gave it a whirl.. no start.. then I poured a little fuel down quadrajet and she started up!.. good news.. bad news mechanical FP broken, removed carburetor and that thing needed to be rebuilt 5yrs ago, then noticed an edelbrock auto manifold that was leaking oil was installed... so here is what I did. Removed distributor, T-Stat housing and manifold. After a few calls to local boating supply shops and speaking to a few helpful gentleman I came to this conclusion since a new manifold was going to cost about five or $600 and a freshwater cooling system would probably only cost a few hundred dollars more if I installed it myself I decided I would keep the manifold. I even checked local auto junkyards to see if I could find an older cast iron intake manifold but had no luck..so then I had distributor out, the old manifold off and the broken MFP out. Got a new FP and During installation I bumped the engine so rod was up higher and install was easy. Then installed manifold with new seals and new T-stat with seals.. then After some research on rebuilding the quadrajet and adjusting them I got scared especially since I’m in Ma. And at this point I am still hoping and trying to get boat going for this season. I had an old 2bbl mercarb from a 305 I had years ago that was working when removed so I ordered a carb adapter kit and some gaskets, cleaned it and threw her in..then when I went to reinstall the distributor I realized I did something not so smart.. I lost the timing bumping the engine to install FP.. So now I’m trying to find TDC and so far I have this. Distributor out, #1 plug out and a mark on balancer for top of piston on what I hope to be compression cycle? Then I went to spin the crank counter clockwise and the bolt just loosened?? Wtf! So now I am not sure if someone knows how I can turn this another way... sooo close but stuck. Sorry about the novel but I figured there might b info that may pertain. Thx!!
