dmnolan
Active Member
- Apr 11, 2017
- 147
- Boat Info
- 1976 Sea Ray SRV240 Weekender
- Engines
- Currently 351Windsor 233 HP
The heart of my boat is coming together nicely! Bad news is she will sit a while as I prepare the boat for her!!
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Looking forward to next installment, truly respect the build and preservation of these classics. What exactly is 2'itis? Never heard of it.
I hope your project is coming along or has been finished.I have a 1977 sda 240 weekender that I have put alot of work into. I am trying to get it back to 1977 standards and looks. It has twin 470's with pre alpha out drives. I have stripped all the molding(it was painted black) stained it teak brown and varnished it all. I installed a jump seat behind the captains bench as was in 1977, removed the microwave and put an alcohol stove back in it. I also installed a 3 position onboard charger, a third battery for the house, and a inverter to run the fridge. I also installed a new tilt gage and three small digital volt meters one for each battery to keep track of the battery status. Of course I have a new lorance hook 9 gps fish finder , sterio with four speakers. All the beds have bedding all set for sleeping on board.
Mechanical wise has been a nightmare for sure. Port engine had a hard time starting, turned over fine but had to be primed in order to start so I rebuilt the carb and found all kinds of issues that was caused by who ever tried to do it be fore(wont use the language I used as it would spoil the post), now it starts fine. Then I looked at the outdrives. Had to put new water pumps in both as new seals on topside, new shift seals,prop shaft seals(working on port side right now). New billows,gimbel bearings,seals,on both sides as there was water in both out drives. Of course I have had to purchase tools to do all this am now waiting for the carrier bearing puller.I have found this to be less expensive than hiring mechanic to do it. The first out drive that I had some work done by a merc guy cost me $300.00 for putting in carrier seals and a waterpump and he left out the washer at the shift shaft seal and I couldn't get reverse so I had to take the outdrive off and install the washer and a new shift shaft seal.(turned out to be a shift shaft seal that we didn't replace). I had a shift cable come out of its slot at the shifter up front and that screwed up the shift adjustment on the starboard side well so far I have forward but can't get reverse yet still working on it. So the boat has been in front of my house for about nine months being worked on and hopefully all I have left is the shift adjustment on the starboard side and carrier seals on the port side. If I can maintain forward on the starboard side I will go with it and fidldle with it at the slip, the port side has reverse. I may have the mechanic at the marina do the starboard adjustment. Honestly I am really burned out on working on this girl all I want to do is get out on the lake at night and do some fishing before it hits 115 degrees here in Vegas.(don't have to worry about rot here it drier than a popcorn fart all the time)