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    '76 Holiday i/o 18' Fishing Rebuild (pic heavy!)

    Before soldering, making sure the allignment is correct and the wires are cut to length. The best way to do this is actually attach things with zip ties, cut wire to length, and then cut off the zip ties. And there's the final install. Took forever. Wire 9 doesn't exist so we'll use that for...
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    '76 Holiday i/o 18' Fishing Rebuild (pic heavy!)

    Alrighty, so we're really getting after it. May take a day off work to finish wiring. Who knew wiring was going to take so LONG. Had a thought about the engine wiring. Since we are piecing the 9 conductor together with 3 different cables, I decided that we might as well use a bus. This will...
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    '76 Holiday i/o 18' Fishing Rebuild (pic heavy!)

    Aaaaand we're back to the manual trying to figure out how the engine attaches to everything. The manual actually has ALL the information you need, it's just not well organized. Also, how did people get anything done with black and white pictures?! Getting the crane ready... Wrapping the...
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    '76 Holiday i/o 18' Fishing Rebuild (pic heavy!)

    So many updates.... Panther 2 stroke 55-0020A We had to modify it slightly by removing a blue sleve over the stainless bolt, but, the engine now sits as low as it could possibly get! The throttle just barely hits the stern deck. Also, the thing is SO easy to pull up, but requires us to push...
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    '76 Holiday i/o 18' Fishing Rebuild (pic heavy!)

    More progress! Wyatt came up with this absolutely brilliant way to support the bow deck. Even free floating there it is ROCK SOLID. We're still debating whether we want to add a piece of deck to extend the second deck further to the bow.... But maybe we'll end up using it as storage for the...
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    '76 Holiday i/o 18' Fishing Rebuild (pic heavy!)

    Stern Eye hooks in! And yes, it was as miserable as we thought it would be. Key to not blowing out the plywood on the other side is to put a block of plywood over it. It'll prevent the epoxy from exploding on the back side. This really is a 2 man job. Close up. 5200 on EVERY surface...
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    '76 Holiday i/o 18' Fishing Rebuild (pic heavy!)

    HUGE progress today. Besides us, unfortunately, rotating the gas tank cover 90 degrees (and having to cut off a side and reinstall), the last big hurdle is cleared (we hope!). Here's one pic, but definitely more to come: It's just held in place by tension, but we're leaving it overnight so...
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    '76 Holiday i/o 18' Fishing Rebuild (pic heavy!)

    Halfway done burning the late night oil. Getting that 1/2" piece of ply to stay was tricky at times. And here's how we left it last night to cook off. 8 rivets all with 5200. (I know it's not 5200 just easier than typing it all out. I think it's poly-ethylene). We used 2 c-clamps to squish...
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    '76 Holiday i/o 18' Fishing Rebuild (pic heavy!)

    Got after it last night... Getting the bow support fitted with c clamps to the L bracket behind it. Traced out the outline of where we are riveting through the 1x6" board. We used common board... it felt soft as I was drilling it.. Maybe we should've gone with a harder wood? Then again the...
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    '76 Holiday i/o 18' Fishing Rebuild (pic heavy!)

    AWWWWWWWWWW YEAH!!!!!!! ROUND 2 DONE BABY!
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    '76 Holiday i/o 18' Fishing Rebuild (pic heavy!)

    Well the gauges didn't get here in time and I'm missing some 10 gauge spade connectors. Ugh. So waiting for those to arrive Thursday, but otherwise the dash is 90% wired up.
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    '76 Holiday i/o 18' Fishing Rebuild (pic heavy!)

    Stern deck painted. We're definitely feeling like we've got the HVLP dialed in. The texture on this is near perfect and there's no visible imperfections. Sucks we can't put a clear coat on it. It'll probably be scuffed within the first month of use lol. New dash painted, dog house painted...
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    '76 Holiday i/o 18' Fishing Rebuild (pic heavy!)

    Hour of discussion on how we're going to attach this 1/2" plywood under the gunnel to support it in the front. Aaaaand done for the day. Paint on the second deck is cured! The cubby under Wyatt has an LED strip, so when we turn on the white interior lights, hopefully, that space will be lit...
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    Primer dry time

    Hello comrades, We're painting the dash of our boat tomorrow, newly epoxied wood. Removing blush + scuff with 220. The usual. Question is can you shoot a base primer coat, and then 2 coats of alkyd enamel + hardener the same day? 8 am primer, 3 pm first coat, 7pm second coat? 100F. 35%...
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    '76 Holiday i/o 18' Fishing Rebuild (pic heavy!)

    Doing things a second time isn't as hard as the first time... Heading tot he boat graveyard today to look for a 9 pin plug... Ours has 2 big holes and 7 smaller. Seen some that have 3 GAUGES ARRIVED! But the tach had fallen out of it's packaging during shipping :'( Took a pic in case i...
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    Why I didn't buy a 140HP merc today

    Well! We went and looked at the engine. The wiring harness was wrong, so that sucked. We need a 9 connector and they had modified an 8 conductor. So we passed on that. Upon inspection, there was rust in cylinder 4 and rust on the interior of spark plug 1. There was a chip on the piston of...
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    '76 Holiday i/o 18' Fishing Rebuild (pic heavy!)

    Here's the updates from the weekend (not including set backs) Applying epoxy to the bowmost piece of the doghouse. You can see we used rivets to hold it together & 5200 to seal the plywood. We're expecting this doghouse to take some beating. We'll see what happens! Bowmost support added for...
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    '76 Holiday i/o 18' Fishing Rebuild (pic heavy!)

    Pic updates! Painting the seat boxes same color as deck... pretty generic. The paint helps hide a lot of the imperfections... but it also accents some others. We're staying off the paint for 4 days to really let it cure. 2 coats with hardener sprayed with HVLP 24 hours apart. We also...
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    Mercruiser 120 running rough (video)

    Hi all, 1973 mercruiser. Currently: 8 degrees BTDC, 1 1/2 turns idle mixture screws, oil sender is having grounding problems, but oil pressure (before it failed) was 30psi. Engine will not start unless the choke is open (allowing air in), unless it's stone cold. Having issues finding just...
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    '76 Holiday i/o 18' Fishing Rebuild (pic heavy!)

    pics! Seats finally sanded and amine blush removed. About ready to paint... We used scrap 3/4" for mounting things to the transom so we don't have to drill more holes in it. Smart. (We can't take credit for that idea... we've seen it on iboats). Second deck cut out! Had to re-epoxy all the...
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