Ethan, I finally got by the post office, that item is in the mail heading your way. If you need anything else just let me know.
Thanks Mark! I just received the package at the end of last week. I've been meaning to get on here to thank you and post and update. I really appreciate you sending that!
Here are a few pictures of the progress from the last couple of weeks. Not much but I'm doing at least a little every night after work. Sometimes its very little though. Life is busy but that's a good thing right?
Checking the gap of all the rings (they were all perfect out of the box but I checked them anyway with the factory mercruiser specs.) A few of them with the rings installed.
Pistons/crank and cam installed. I also installed the timing cover and oil pan yesterday. Its quite simple but I did alot of research on how to do it properly to avoid any leaks. I plan to run the engine on a stand before it goes in the boat so if I do discover any leaks I could redo it quite easily. However Id rather do it right the first time. The manual I have actually talks about a 1 piece oil pan gasket but I dont see any place I can buy one of those. I used the felpro gaskets. Cork sides and rubber front and rear. Also use permatex ultra copper high temp RTV/gasket maker. The oil pan that I installed was the one that came out of the boat its a 16 bolt I think. The other 2 pans I have are 24 bolt? They are both older and not in as good of shape. I cleaned the original one up and resprayed it. If it causes a problem by leaking I can just replace it with one of the others I suppose. I don't expect to have to do that though.
I just realised you can see my collection of 250 blocks/cranks/cams/heads/manifolds and other parts in the background.
The other side. I'll have to fire up the furnace in the garage so I can paint the block and head with some nice high gloss black. Right now its just primered still.
Another
A pic of some parts. I painted the elbow/riser and water pump. The manifold needs to be sprayed still. I want to double check it for cracks though. It looks good but I want to take a closer look at it first. I still don't know why this motor kicked the bucket to begin with. It looks like it was freshly rebuilt (some assembly was wrong. Discovered when I dissasembled everything) but never really ran or didn't run much.
I also have two starters and 2 alternators that I need to figure out what works and what doesn't. The origional starter seemed to be ok since I used it to do the compression test while the original was still in the boat. The alternators I have no idea though. Im still not quite sure how to test them,,
Cleaned engine bay and fuel cell is removed. I still have 5 gallons left of crap fuel left in the tank. I pumped out over 10 gallons already. It must have been almost full when it was left who knows how long ago. I'll have to replace that panel that goes over the fuel cell and figure out what to do with the carpet that covered it. I may drill some core samples of the stringers and transom to see how things are but I don't forsee any major issues. Hoping anyways...
Here is a pic of the Glastron in the stuffed garage bay with its "younger" sibling and some snow removal equipment which hasn't gotten much use this year. I'm hoping this summer I'll have the glastron ready for water and will be able to bring the scarab and the glastron out at the same time to get more people on the river with us. I need to make friends with more people that have boats. I dont plan on always having two boats.
pretty soon Ill make a thread that will be for the entire boat restoration/project and link this thread to it since this is mainly just about the merc 165.
Everybody have a great rest of the weekend and enjoy the Superbowl if your into that srota thing!
Ethan