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gettaway · Post by **gettaway** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 11:19 am

all dressed up and ready for the ball

gettaway · Post by **gettaway** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 11:36 am

Stainless Steel wire clamps and hex head vavle cover bolts
nylon insulating washers to help prevent metal to metal contact and corrosion

Anti sieze on every fastener

gettaway · Post by **gettaway** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 11:47 am

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Now

alexander38 · Post by **alexander38** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:54 pm

loooookin' good...

davidsmith · Post by **davidsmith** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:18 pm

Looks like the carb linkage on the old motors are what EM63 is looking for.

gettaway · Post by **gettaway** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 11:29 am

david smith,

I had already sold the engines prior to pulling them out of the boat. I ran an ad in Craigslist and sold them in about an hour for 1,000.00 for the pair.

San Diego sits on the border with Tijuana Mexico and the guy who bought them was from mexico, he wanted the port engine for a fishing boat in the gulf and he bought the stb engine as a spare or he was going to rebuild it and sell it.

The port engine ran pretty good, and I sold them complete minus the closed cooling systems and transmissions. he didn't need or want either as his boat was an old converted sea ray 25'+- with an out drive and he had a van full of parts to make the engine work.

I had a new(er) set of manifolds and risers, one engine had a new alrternator.

we both were happy....
anyways, nothing left to sell r.e. linkage

EM63 · Post by **EM63** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 12:55 pm

davidsmith wrote:Looks like the carb linkage on the old motors are what EM63 is looking for.

Sorry - but I can't see any siilimarity.
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Greetings - Heiner

gettaway · Post by **gettaway** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 3:40 pm

Well,
I got the coolers back from the shop, I had them cleaned and rebuilt and I got them adapted to the 165's this weekend, I also just picked up the drip pans I had made.

they are 20 gauge stainless steel and I had them put a cross break in the bottom to keep them from rattling and give them some rigidity.

Stripermann2 · Post by **Stripermann2** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 5:06 pm

Drip pans? Those motors shouldn't leak anything!
Seriously though, I like them, very nice...

gettaway · Post by **gettaway** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 5:15 pm

they shouldnt leak!

however, it will be nice to have any potenital spill , drip or leak contained.

Allen Sr · Post by **Allen Sr** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:31 am

gettaway wrote:they shouldnt leak!

however, it will be nice to have any potenital spill , drip or leak contained.

I agree 100%. As someone on here always says 'U Never Know'.

jddens · Post by **jddens** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:46 am

Nice! Thanks for keeping us updated, I'm enjoying following your project. It's going to look great when it all comes together. I'll look forward to some performance/economy data when you get her running..............John

gettaway · Post by **gettaway** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:51 am

thanks for the compliment, I hope to have them installed in the next couples of weeks , and it will take a little time to get the exhausts, throttle and shifters adapted and connected.

as far as perfromance, my goal right now is out of the slip!

rossjo · Post by **rossjo** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 8:50 am

The engines and engine bay are really looking good!

gettaway · Post by **gettaway** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 11:30 pm

UPDATE,

I took a few days off this past week and I got the 165's installed. I have the preliminary alignment done and they ar laged to the stringers. I still have fuel, exhaust cooling and shifters to install, but they are in the boat.

We had an absolutely perfect day on Friday, now wind, mild weather and the install went very smooth.

My Friend and pro boat dude who help me out with the know how and the tow boat

This Photo was taken at about 10:00 am yesterday when we towed the boat back to the slip after the engines were installed in the boat, you can see what I mean by "perfect weather"

I took this photo tonight

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