RiggerMark
Seaman Apprentice
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- Aug 13, 2011
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- 32
good day,
so if ya saw my oil pics, you know what the next step is, and to give an idea of what the heck I'm doing, I brought and installed a low miles 4.3 in my gmc work van back in april, brought from ppl I know, runs great in the van, but I never got around to getting the van on the road, ie didn't need it yet, been a busy summer work wise, so I figured I'd get around to it this fall,
And so, finally got the wife to go out on my 1963 14' Mermaid V-hull, 1985 25hp seahorse, she loved it, had a blast just running around, now this is the first of june, guess what she said the next morning, let's get a bigger boat, a bowrider even, anyhow, here we are, 1985 Starcraft CSS180, 4.3 GMC with OMC outdrive, it's in really good shape, new floor done well, seats all good, foams all good, just a really nice boat, the engine and drive looks taken care of, (we know better), found it on craigslist, needs a starter and a "freeze plug put back in" huh? sounds like trouble to me, so I bought it, the guy kinda knew what was going on, hadn't been able to sell because of the freeze plug issue, I made a project type offer and he accepted. Set in my drive for 2 weeks while I was busy with work, started messing with it this monday, you can go read my" see my oil" thread
, and read that part, sooo, to make a long story, I've already removed the 4.3 back out of my van and started pulling the 4.3 out of the boat, would like to get the heads to a shop as soon as possible, I will marinize the motor as much as possible, all but the cam, going to leave it alone, I know there's different thoughts on auto verses marine, some folks say that everything is tougher, better, stronger in a marine engine, but I know that both blocks look exactly the same, 3 yrs. apart, both say GMC 4.3L and I guess the rest we'll find out, going to try to share pics and knowledge as I go, once again iboats, thanks, Mark
so if ya saw my oil pics, you know what the next step is, and to give an idea of what the heck I'm doing, I brought and installed a low miles 4.3 in my gmc work van back in april, brought from ppl I know, runs great in the van, but I never got around to getting the van on the road, ie didn't need it yet, been a busy summer work wise, so I figured I'd get around to it this fall,
And so, finally got the wife to go out on my 1963 14' Mermaid V-hull, 1985 25hp seahorse, she loved it, had a blast just running around, now this is the first of june, guess what she said the next morning, let's get a bigger boat, a bowrider even, anyhow, here we are, 1985 Starcraft CSS180, 4.3 GMC with OMC outdrive, it's in really good shape, new floor done well, seats all good, foams all good, just a really nice boat, the engine and drive looks taken care of, (we know better), found it on craigslist, needs a starter and a "freeze plug put back in" huh? sounds like trouble to me, so I bought it, the guy kinda knew what was going on, hadn't been able to sell because of the freeze plug issue, I made a project type offer and he accepted. Set in my drive for 2 weeks while I was busy with work, started messing with it this monday, you can go read my" see my oil" thread
, and read that part, sooo, to make a long story, I've already removed the 4.3 back out of my van and started pulling the 4.3 out of the boat, would like to get the heads to a shop as soon as possible, I will marinize the motor as much as possible, all but the cam, going to leave it alone, I know there's different thoughts on auto verses marine, some folks say that everything is tougher, better, stronger in a marine engine, but I know that both blocks look exactly the same, 3 yrs. apart, both say GMC 4.3L and I guess the rest we'll find out, going to try to share pics and knowledge as I go, once again iboats, thanks, Mark
