If someone is familiar with a difference I'm seeing here thanks for whatever insights you might offer. Question is:
Have a new to me old Glastron with a Mercruiser 165. Now that it's here and giving it a little freshening up old boat parts/ideas/requests for rides/etc etc etc are coming out of the woodwork from friends and family. One such help offer deals with a potential spare engine from a similar vintage Invicta.
Engine is also a Mercruiser 165. Hour meter shows 2200. It's all clean and shows good compression. No reason not to grab it just to set aside (since it's free). Except for one difference.
My engine has engine block casting that extends beyond the timing cover on both sides which are the mount locations for the front motor mount. The engine that I'm being offered does not. The casting on the engine's left side has the two bolt holes. On the engine's right side, however, it's obvious that part of the casting was never there. Block follows the countour of the timing cover down to the oil pan.
Now here's the kicker. The engine still was mounted in its old boat with a front mount. It used a heavy steel 90 degree bracket that bolted to an engine casting boss down by the oil pan. The bracket makes the 90 turn uphill and runs beside the timing cover where the front mount bracket attaches to it with two nuts and bolts.
Obvious question is "is this ok?" In some ways the engine may answer this itself as its apparently been this way for 2200 hours. My cousin who had the boat has no recollection of the engine ever being out. It just seems odd that the bracket would be used and let the engine hang from a single engine boss on the right front rather than use a different casting that has two mount holes right in its face.
Have a new to me old Glastron with a Mercruiser 165. Now that it's here and giving it a little freshening up old boat parts/ideas/requests for rides/etc etc etc are coming out of the woodwork from friends and family. One such help offer deals with a potential spare engine from a similar vintage Invicta.
Engine is also a Mercruiser 165. Hour meter shows 2200. It's all clean and shows good compression. No reason not to grab it just to set aside (since it's free). Except for one difference.
My engine has engine block casting that extends beyond the timing cover on both sides which are the mount locations for the front motor mount. The engine that I'm being offered does not. The casting on the engine's left side has the two bolt holes. On the engine's right side, however, it's obvious that part of the casting was never there. Block follows the countour of the timing cover down to the oil pan.
Now here's the kicker. The engine still was mounted in its old boat with a front mount. It used a heavy steel 90 degree bracket that bolted to an engine casting boss down by the oil pan. The bracket makes the 90 turn uphill and runs beside the timing cover where the front mount bracket attaches to it with two nuts and bolts.
Obvious question is "is this ok?" In some ways the engine may answer this itself as its apparently been this way for 2200 hours. My cousin who had the boat has no recollection of the engine ever being out. It just seems odd that the bracket would be used and let the engine hang from a single engine boss on the right front rather than use a different casting that has two mount holes right in its face.
