Ivan Chirino, he speaks limited English but his price was great. Part of the great price was that I was not in a rush, I'm still waiting on him to do my bimini's but as you can see, I had my hands full with this boat so I told him take his time.and he gave me good price. Also gave me a great price to do the entire boat all at once.
How did you get the silicone out? I'm afraid i'll cut a wire on accident in the process.Dennis and Robin
I want to thank you for the information on this. Seattleite and I have become friends and I've helped him get acclimated to his new to him 2002 260DA. It's a very nice, clean and well kept boat. He found a great one.
Anyway I just installed a Clarion M303 head unit and XMD1 remote. I used a glowstick to pull the new remote cable through from stereo cabinet to the engine bay. The factory remote was routed this way also. I didn't have to take any of the mid-cabin apart. I just removed most of the silicone sealant, ran the glowstick in and pulled back the new remote extension cable. I then ran it across the engine bay bulkhead, zip tying it along the way and drilled a new hole above the other group of wires and sealed it all back up on both sides with new silicone.
It turned out great and the remote does fit on the helm. I had to redrill the main panel though to remove the recessed pocket and allow the 3" dia base to set flush.
Panel partially removed.
I drilled the hole offset with a 3" hole saw to the right of the recessed pocket. This aligned the 3" hole in the panel to the 3" hole already in the helm.
Back view of the remote installed
Done
Now I think I'll be doing this on my boat. I was impressed with the Bluetooth capabilities of the stereo. It worked great.
The old engine had it, I asked the mechanic about it and they said it was good. I'm going to get a second opinion. Visually it seems well above the waterline but I don't know what the proper distance is supposed to be. I'm an outboard guy.
Thank you! Greatly appreciated!
So I took some measurements. If you look at the pic and on the floor of the bilge where the wd40 can is, if that is considered waterline level, I have about 20 inches to the top of the riser. so if the water line was a full 6" higher than that, I'd still be at 14". I also searched through every listing i could find on boat trader that had pics of the engine bay. None of the boats for sale had 454s in them so couldn't get an apples to apples comparison. all of the 5.0 and 5.7s did have spacers in them but when i looked at their height, it was nowhere near as high as the old motor in this boat had them which was almost up to the deck. So based on that I think I'm in good shape here but there was certainly no harm in double checking! In fact, thank you for this because when i opened up the engine hatch to take the measurement, I discovered the drive lube reservoir completely empty!!!! Back to the mechanic!!! Fortunately, aside from the sea trial we did last week, I haven't run the boat yet. I did run it on muffs for 5 minutes or so once this week.
