1957 Duracraft Duraflite Custom

[GA_Boater]

Re: 1957 Duracraft Duraflite Custom

Welcome to the world of NLA Merc parts. Ebay will be your new best friend if you need some of those parts. Hopefully an impeller and plugs will bring her to life.

Let me find the diagram so you can get this baby of the itchy glasser.

 

[GA_Boater]

Re: 1957 Duracraft Duraflite Custom

This is the best I can find, JB. Mercury Outboard Parts And It's not good. It fades on the detail pat of the drawing.

On mine it has a lever with a shaft and cross pin and spring. The shaft goes through the barrel and the cross pin is held into a detent by the spring. To release it, push the lever until the cross pin is out of the detent and rotate the lever. I can't tell by the diagram if your is the same.

 

[jbcurt00]

Re: 1957 Duracraft Duraflite Custom

I may just need to bring a better over head light & a flashlight, unless I get the motor tilted back down, it's just an awkward angle from inside the boat or standing beside it.

W/ the motor upright, it'll be much easier to be standing besides the motor looking down.

Didn't find any info for the trim pump either. I'll look today & see if it doesn't have a bleeder on the base somewhere. There isn't much of a reservoir, it seems to be the base of the pump assembly.....

 

[jbcurt00]

Re: 1957 Duracraft Duraflite Custom

This may prove helpful:

For 4 hose T&T systems ^^^

And the 1350 has 4 hoses.

 

[GA_Boater]

Re: 1957 Duracraft Duraflite Custom

The reverse lock release lets you lift the motor, but not lower it. That's what my write up says.

The pump base is the reservoir. I think you'll have to crack a hose fitting to bleed pressure. Have you tried a battery to see if it will lower?

 

[SigSaurP229]

Re: 1957 Duracraft Duraflite Custom

Or you could just do the wise thing and trade for an Evinrude.


Your inbox is full.

 

[Pmccraney]

Re: 1957 Duracraft Duraflite Custom

Hey jb,
I haven't been on the forum as much lately. Just wanted to stop by and wish you well. Looks like you are making some steady progress!
Keep plugging along!

 

[jbcurt00]

Re: 1957 Duracraft Duraflite Custom

Or you could just do the wise thing and trade for an Evinrude.


Your inbox is full.

Ouch ^^^

Evinrude, hmmmmm, didn't BlueFin just post a free Evinrude 135 w/ a CMC power bracket? Hey BF: Wanna trade OB's??

Not sure why I've been posting it here, this OB & donor stuff should really be over in the Holiday thread where the OB will end up. Eventually :facepalm:

Oh, BTW, 7/16" nuts & bolts were holding the remote control ends. And yep, had to crack the fluid lines open to get the trim rams to drop. But drop it did. And it's free of the transom :watermelon: If only temporarily.... Some jack leg forgot to build the OB stand...... Doh...

So, the rest of the 1350 Merc info is here:
[h=1]18' Holiday OB ~ the Backburner project[/h]

 

[jbcurt00]

Re: 1957 Duracraft Duraflite Custom

Hey jb,
I haven't been on the forum as much lately. Just wanted to stop by and wish you well. Looks like you are making some steady progress!
Keep plugging along!

Thanks for swing by the new garage. Stop by anytime.

 

[Bwana Don]

Re: 1957 Duracraft Duraflite Custom

Or you could just do the wise thing and trade for an Evinrude.


Your inbox is full.

Wise yes, sexy, no. Mercs are some sexy beasts. I still have one arm bigger than the other from an old Merc, but they look so sweet. Especially on a classic boat.

That T-Nee trailer looks pretty cool. You going to scrap it???

Don

ps. You're gonna love that rivet gun. Mine works awesome!

 

[jbcurt00]

Re: 1957 Duracraft Duraflite Custom

Wise yes, sexy, no. Mercs are some sexy beasts. I still have one arm bigger than the other from an old Merc, but they look so sweet. Especially on a classic boat.

That T-Nee trailer looks pretty cool. You going to scrap it???

Don

ps. You're gonna love that rivet gun. Mine works awesome!

Agreed, on the bolded counts.

I needed the room. Besides the center spar is completely thrashed & rusted out, TeeNee winch 'post' was shot, as was the winch, the pinch rollers all had flats spots where they quit rolling LONG before someone stopped using the trailer, the shocks are shot, the fenders have rusted thru & fallen off (NOT original teardrop fenders) and a significant portion of the axle carrier assembly isn't sound. I might have gotten something for it, or it's parts/pieces but needed it gone. I considered dismantling every thing I could & try to find someone interested, but I already have parts & pieces I haven't listed and listed parts that haven't sold.

Deed is already done. If I hadn't done it today, I'm not sure when I'd have been able to. And it was definitely in the way of bringing the Duracraft to the boat shed.

Gratuitous landfill shots over in the Holiday thread where this 1350 Merc will end up.

 

[jbcurt00]

Re: 1957 Duracraft Duraflite Custom

A couple 2X4's, a few old lockers & a 2" thick maple, lab top and a workbench practically makes itself:

Not bad for the cost of 4@ 5/16" 2" lags & washers and 16@ #10 3" deck screws. The 2X's, plywood spacers, lockers & maple top are all recycled stuff that's been sitting around our shop for a decade (or more).

In the last few minutes of boat work on mother's day am, I just threw the maple on top for a quick pix.

Monday after work, I'll move it to the back of the workshop, and lag the maple down. Then mount the metal brake along 1 end, and a drill press on opposite corner. I'll probably mount a 6way protected outlet strip to the underside of 1 end. It'll be sitting just off to the side of the GFCI outlet in the back wall of my space, and having 2 possible trips 1st before I pop a breaker would be good.

I also have a mod I want to do on the brake to eliminate the C-clamps needed for bending. Probably not $15 in parts, drill a few holes, tap the lower brake plate, & I can use knurled knobs & fender washers to secure the metal keeper usually held down w/ the C-clamps.

When I get notified that my online HD order is ready for pick up in a few days, I'll grab the knobs, 2 sizes of washers and the necessary springs and post some details about the mod.

May give the brake a test drive before then

Have a good start to the week...................

 

[dozerII]

Re: 1957 Duracraft Duraflite Custom

There is nothing as good as repurposing good solid objects to suit ones needs, great job jb.

 

[GT1000000]

Re: 1957 Duracraft Duraflite Custom

Very nice workstation and I really like the fact it has ready to use storage!

 

[jbcurt00]

Re: 1957 Duracraft Duraflite Custom

Teaching roofing/shingling for 5hrs in the afternoon for the last 2 days has me wrecked after the hour drive back to Fairmont, so very little boat or boat shed work.

I did mount the maple top, and the brake, but until I get some stuff moved & organized I may not finalize where the workbench ends up. Got some hanger bolts (3/8" screw on 1 end, 3/8" bolt on the other) & a new chuck key for the drill press. Screwed together the last pre-cut engine stand, need another set of casters & some Stainless hardware for another project in the shed.

Pick those all up tomorrow while I help my 11 graduating students spend their tool allowance at the big blue box.

Come one end of hump day......

 

[GT1000000]

Re: 1957 Duracraft Duraflite Custom

Yeah, all this havin to work to keep the greenbacks bush flowering really gets in the way of fun time, don't ya know...
Happy Humpday!

 

[Decker83]

Re: 1957 Duracraft Duraflite Custom

That is a great looking work bench.. Like your ideal on the brake.. Will help make up time over using the c clamps..

Each morning when I get up, I have to tell myself, go to work so I can have the money to play with the boats..

Have a great hump day and a better weekend..

 

[Woodonglass]

Re: 1957 Duracraft Duraflite Custom

Me Likey the WB!!! I TOTALLY understand the WORK thing! I tell myself I'm gunna go home and go out to the shop and work on the motor but...when I get home and the Admiral and I sit down and eat and the day starts to unwind...The shop just somehow slips away. I'm gettin old I guess!!!

 

[lokonn]

Re: 1957 Duracraft Duraflite Custom

Like your idea on the brake, please post some pics of that. Been mulling over several ways to skin that cat myself.

 

[jbcurt00]

Re: 1957 Duracraft Duraflite Custom

Happy Humpday!

That is a great looking work bench.. Like your ideal on the brake.. Will help make up time over using the c clamps..

Me Likey the WB!!! I TOTALLY understand the WORK thing! I tell myself I'm gunna go home and go out to the shop and work on the motor but......

Like your idea on the brake, please post some pics of that. Been mulling over several ways to skin that cat myself.

Thanks for dropping in fellas. Not much happened today either, but I did swing by the boat shed. Did some housekeeping & lagged the new casters to the bottom of the newly built engine stand, which is specifically for the 1350. Thursday I might get the big Merc off the stand it's on now, some jack leg used 2 fixed & 2 swivel casters on the stand it's on now, WTH.....

On the knobs & etc Mod for the brake, I wish it was an original thought, but it isn't. I found it online, from here:
Improved Harbor Freight metal bending brake

Looks like it'll work really well, and be much quicker then using the C-clamps.......

Have a good end to hump day & getting thru to the weekend.................