1972 SRV-190 Rebuild

[billandlori]

I didn't get too much time over the long weekend to work on the boat but have still been picking away.

I got all the foam out of the front bow area, it was in good shape and really hard to get out. Had a slight gas smell so there must have been a leak or spill at some point.

I was kinda weird how they built a higher section in the bow area, sure was a lot of foam!!

Then today I got after getting the engine pulled. Lots of documentation of wires and such. This has a three point engine mount, two mounts on each side of the engine block and the bell housing mounts to the input shaft housing on the jet pump.

The supervisors were on hand to make sure everything went safely...

Next is some cleaning and pulling the last of the floor and "stringers" out.

Bill

 

[Ike]

Back in the day and to some extent even now, builders of inboards and I/Os did that. The ABYC and USCG requirement was only that the boat float if swamped. So they need a lot of foam to float the weight of the engine and drive. The obvious place was the bow. Lots of room up there for foam. This would make it float with just the bow sticking up out of the water. Not very useful. Then came the bow rider era and a lot of that room under the bow disappeared, so now it is distributed around the boat. They still don't float level like outboards but better than they used to.