"It Happened!" Transom has to be replaced! (NOW W/PICS)

[LX Kid]

Is a product called "Top Coat" an ok choice to paint the engine bay? I know they make special paint for engine bays but it's kinda expensive.

 

[ondarvr]

About anything works, cheap is the normal method of picking a product.

 

[redneck joe]

I think we need to stop the "one up's manship" for another day. People are wanting to see project and how it's going. Thanks

just ask a mod to delete anything you want; each post has a number in the upper right of the box.. Sorry to talk on your thread. I'll delete my statements.

 

[LX Kid]

Well senior citizens have medical appointments and has put a "kabash" on plans for putting skin back on. Maybe tomorrow???? I started looking at the new/old gimbal assembly and it will need new boots and two new 7/16x20x6 studs. I will have to look on my "go-to-source", YouTube, for how to do all this. It has a several issues. All three boots, gimbal bearing, two studs 7/16x20x6", 3 exhaust o-rings for y-tube, water inlet o-ring and I "think" a aluminum seal for the drive shaft boot. I started sanding all the corrosion and will use a rattle can appliance epoxy paint.

I already own the 12-point tool for the gimbal ring pivot bolts. Problem is getting the lower cotter pin and bushing pin removed so I can take this sucker apart!!!!! I hope that I can improvise a tool for the drive shaft boot sealing ring. I'm guessing new one has to be installed from the gimbal housing side. Will also, while it's apart, put new wiring harness for the trim position sensors.

 

[kcassells]

Ha ha ha ha...you'll be there oneday!:lol: Looks like you sure do have one good crew pulling this out, yourself included.
Start researching AARP.

 

[LX Kid]

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[LX Kid]

Does the gimbal ring have to be removed to install a new drive shaft bellows? What about the other two bellows? YouBoob videos, that I've watched, don't show the removal process!

 

[crabbingcake]

I have to replace my transom - have a wooden boat though.

 

[LX Kid]

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Finally, this morning, we pasted the outer skin back on the transom. Everything seemed to pull together nice and tight. Tomorrow we'll pull of the "cage" and see what we got. Got some glassing to do on the perimeter gap as well. There is one more piece of skin to go back on around the "key hole".

 

[LX Kid]

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All the skin is back on. Tomorrow's work will be to sand a little more around the perimeter to start the fading glass work. The other two crew will work on that and I'll be working on the gimbal assembly to try and get this sucker apart. The bottom pivot cup, for lack of proper word, is stuck in the gimbal ring. I was able to get the cotter pin out however. I have be soaking that pivot area with PB Blaster for a couple of days now. Probable going to have to use a torch on it.

 

[Stumpalump]

Your still throwing time and money into an old corroded relic of an outdrive. Why? Newer alpha stuff is readily available for cheap and in 5 years when it needs parts or work you won't be dealing with antique busted parts. Cut your losses by selling that old stuff to sombody else that wants to fix a relic and upgrade. I said that pages ago and hate to say it again but you have done so much great work that you need to top it off with a drive that will be serviceable in 5-10 years.

 

[LX Kid]

Your still throwing time and money into an old corroded relic of an outdrive. Why? Newer alpha stuff is readily available for cheap and in 5 years when it needs parts or work you won't be dealing with antique busted parts. Cut your losses by selling that old stuff to sombody else that wants to fix a relic and upgrade. I said that pages ago and hate to say it again but you have done so much great work that you need to top it off with a drive that will be serviceable in 5-10 years.

Maybe your right "but" some people you just have to lead to the water and let them drink or drown! LoL "IF" something fails after this renovation I'll see what my other two partners, in the boat, want to do. I sold them the boat about nine months ago and then I joined the partnership about six weeks ago because they were frustrated and were thinking of just salvaging it out for parts. "In a hundred years what will it matter anyway?"

 

[LX Kid]

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Check off another day! Put two layers of fiberglass on the seams. Started with 2" then 3" and, after sanding, will add another 5" layer. While my partner did the fiberglassing I completed re-assembling the motor. Had to replace one hose from the bottom of the water pump up to the thermostat housing and installed new spark plugs. (That new chrome timing chain cover will really make it much faster.) Ouch, $40 for that hose. Still soaking the gimbal ring pivot with PB Blaster hoping things will loosen up to enable disassembly.

 

[Jcris]

I stumbled on this thread and have read it all the way through. You guy's have stayed the course when doing so was clearly not popular and I find that great. There's a lot to be said for not taking no for an answer and just "gettin it done". Back in the day when I used to wrench for a living it was those types of guy's who always amazed me. And they got things done with little more than their ingenuity, determination and perseverance. When others were just throwing new parts at repairs they were fixing the old stuff. That is a dying art. My cap is off too you. Well done! I sincerely hope that this all leads to many pleasurable hours enjoying that Grady-White!
Jcris

 

[ondarvr]

Hard to tell from the pic, but looks like he only used CSM, if so it doesn't have much strength, you'll need to use something more substantial than that.

 

[LX Kid]

Hard to tell from the pic, but looks like he only used CSM, if so it doesn't have much strength, you'll need to use something more substantial than that.

What is CSM? (Born ignorant but willing to learn.)

 

[Jcris]

Chopped strand mat fiberglass

 

[LX Kid]

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What a day of learning and misery! My pardner sanded yesterday's glassing and found some boo-boo's where he didn't get enough resin soaked into the glass and got some voids. Went to the auto parts store and bought some Bondo Hair and smoothed the pits and problem areas. I "FINALLY" was able to get this dang gimbal assembly apart. Would never have been able to do it without my acetylene torch. The lower pivot pin was really corroded into the bottom. I thought it it was supposed to drop down but just drove it on into the bellows after heating things up. "WHAT A NIGHTMARE!" If someone has never done it before, like me, it was surely a task you don't want to have to do again!

 

[LX Kid]

When others were just throwing new parts at repairs they were fixing the old stuff. That is a dying art. My cap is off too you. Well done! I sincerely hope that this all leads to many pleasurable hours enjoying that Grady-White!
Jcris

We thank you very much for the compliment. After seven weeks we're going to take the weekend off. Thanks again!

 

[LX Kid]

Chopped strand mat fiberglass

Thanks for explanation the CSM. But yes he did use CSM. That is very strong mat. See pic #138 posting above that I just posted. Thanks