Reply With QuoteHal, Looks great and keep up the progress. Everything is ok with me. Got the suburban back and still building Rod's Wicked. Should be on the water testing in a week or so. Pat
Great write up, like a good book with pictures. pls update whenever you can....
Hal, Looks great and keep up the progress. Everything is ok with me. Got the suburban back and still building Rod's Wicked. Should be on the water testing in a week or so. Pat
Hey Pat .I am glad You are doing good.Which hull did Rod get,Or did he have one laid up?
I am going to be ready to cut the intake out and set it soon.I may give You a call ,for some help.
Hey Pat .I am glad You are doing good.Which hull did Rod get,Or did he have one laid up?
I am going to be ready to cut the intake out and set it soon.I may give You a call ,for some help.
Hal, Rod got the 3rd hull laid up by Cheeta Bob or the last one he laided up. Let me know if you want help. I've got the template too. Pat
Ok well while I was waiting on My engine to be built,I was sitting here staring at the deck on the boat.Every time I would look it over I would tell Myself,Man i should fix this! After a while I started picking at the deck.I had seen Roostwears Stevens thread ,and He was scraping the paint with a razor blade,and I thought would this work for Me.
Ok! Well this scraping is taking way toooolooong! Time to break out the big gunns!
Pain in the ass, isn't it? Someone obviously sanded before they sprayed your boat! Looks good BTW.
great job. keep up the good work..
Well I was'nt really planning on replacing the stringers,but there I go again looking at things too long!
After looking them over realy good I found that they were still very solid,but I can see that the glass has delamminated from the wood,and they were very ugly.
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I cut out the stringers today.I just took a side grinder and cut about a 1/4" above the hull,on both sides of each stringer.Then with the stringers removed,I took a sawsaw and cut down alongthe hull and the remaining glass to make it smooth.
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I am doing a pump swap and set back,so I removed the Intake.
I started first by removing the bolts through the hull and intake,then carefully cutting,with a grinder and cutoff wheel,along the seam of the intake hole and intake,from the bottom.
I then took some screwdrivers,wood chisels and a pry bar and wedged them between the flange and hull working around the inake,tapping each one in allitle at a time ,untill it finally just poped loose.
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Went ahead and cut out the glass and removed the wood in the transom. also filled a few holes in the inside.
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I went ahead and removed all the wood in the gunnels and the dash in prep for replacing with new.
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I filled all the holes on the inside around the gunnelswhere varrious things were mounted.
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I cut out all the gauge holes,then ground(not shown)the area down tapering the edges inward.
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I then bonded the dash wood with two layers of mat and clamped them with bar clamps.While the glass was still wet I laid up the glass in the gauge holes alternating mat and cloth untill built back up.
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As You can see in the pic above, I decided to fill the steering col hole,so I could have some adjustability in mounting the wheel.
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