Same boat as yours and did this job along with cutlass bearings at the same time a couple years ago.
If you do it yourself, make sure you have a puller that can put tension on the transmission coupler and you’ll need to wack it with a hammer to break the key loose. If they’ve not been off in a...
subscribe to the site and look at Franks diesel treatment - I went from black racors to clean red fuel in one shock treatment when I did the same thing on our boat. Takes you a few changes of the racors to clean out all the dead algae
sorry - good point! I didn't hit the shaft directly, but rather the plate. Should have worded that differently. The ping scared the crap out of me the first time
regardless of the tool, a nice metal hammer on the shaft end is your friend. Prop knocker does that for you, but I bent a 1/2" steel plate on my puller before i recognized hitting the shaft in the correct place would cause a vibration to break it loose
can confirm, I pulled the entire exhaust system while in the water and the waterline is like an inch below the top of the vertical fiberglass tube running through the bottom of the hull. I had a pump handy the first time I did that :)
1000 hours certainly isn’t any sort of death sentence you’ll see a lot of people mention, nor is 150 hours an indication an engine is like new. On a 2004, that’s only 50 or so hours of runtime a year.
Get a compression test done, ask for oil samples, and run the boat at WOT during the survey...
It’s just a stainless steel screen so pretty much anything works. I used dawn and let them dry overnight when I got out boat, they’ve stayed clean since then
Never heard that being a problem on the larger boats. Ours is similar to that boat (410 with 3126’s) and the highest point in the exhaust riser is way above the water line.
He may just be sharing experiences from smaller gas powered boats. The 370 of similar vintage had big problems with water...
Our 2002 410 has a corrugated plastic conduit that runs all the way up to the radio and beyond, yours may have something similar. You can see it by pulling some of the access panels inside the cabinets above the sofa