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Re: LH STE questions for B28

Posted By: Kevin Mehegan
Date: Thursday, 9 February 2006, at 11:32 a.m.

In Response To: Re: LH STE questions for B28 (Bill Fuller)

Hello Ernest and Bill,

Well, I plan on doing the vast majority of the work myself. I am fortunate enough to be at a yard that allows me to work on the boat. They also have forklift for engine swaps.

The reason I am concerned about using my existing beds is becuase I just paid to have them glassed in about one year ago. There is three peices of 3/4" ply and one piece of 1/2" lagged together, then bolted to the stringers and then glassed to the stringer. Not sure it would be possible to get them out without C4. I also had two inch glass tubes installed to accoamadate drippless set up for the 1 1/8 shafts. I know that all the running gear would have to be replaced. Just kinda liked the beefed up beds that are in there. They cost me about 1500 bucks. Fiberglass work is one of the things I pay to have done since I am not experienced. Rate is 60 per hour.

Hear is my dilema. I have about 20k to play with. We all know that will buy a brand new pair of complete gassers with trannies. They would bolt into the boat with little to no modification and all existing running gear would be used. Not to mention a two year warranty.

I can possibly buy pair of used LH STE with ZF 630 for 10k. The gear ratio is 2 to 1. I would need panels, harness, engine harness, and possibly mounts. That brings price to about 11.5k for two motors. I then need turbos serviced and mixing elbows that will work for our application. Now I am up to about 13k for motors and trannies.

Crunching the numbers for running gear I come up with about 2k utilizing conventional stuffing boxes. This does not include struts. Nor does it factor the bigger 4 blade prop need for the 2 to 1 ratio. Not sure about them yet. That brings me up to about 15k for engines, trannies, running gear and I know I should allow a 2k minimum for the gauranteed unexpected. Still need racors and stainless mounting hardware along with some fuel line.

Based on my research, the LH STE started production in 1995 and ended in 2001. These particular motors have unknown number of hours. I posted link some time back and yes these are the engines that went under salt water. The engines were dissasembled by yanmar dealer and all parts where within Yanmar's specs. Broken/damaged parts were replaced. Cylinder head on one engine was serviced by Yanmar. I heard the engine that is finished on the stand run. It fired right up and did not skip a beat. A little blue smoke at first but that went away.

I would much rather have diesel. Do you guys think having Yanmar powered boat for a shade over 17k plus my labor is a good deal? Yes the hours on motors are unknown, but dealer is/has gone through the motors. I know this project for new would be more like 45 to 50K doing the labor myself. I just do not have that kind of money though.

I Can send pictures of my empty engine beds and the motors in question if it would help. Looking forward to your replies. Kevin

Messages In This Thread

LH STE questions for B28
Kevin Mehegan -- Tuesday, 7 February 2006, at 11:46 p.m.

Re: LH STE questions for B28
Ernest -- Wednesday, 8 February 2006, at 3:26 p.m.

Re: LH STE questions for B28
Bill Fuller -- Wednesday, 8 February 2006, at 5:49 p.m.

Re: LH STE questions for B28
Kevin Mehegan -- Thursday, 9 February 2006, at 11:32 a.m.

Re: LH STE questions for B28
Kevin Mehegan -- Thursday, 9 February 2006, at 12:13 p.m.

Re: LH STE questions for B28
Ernest -- Thursday, 9 February 2006, at 12:33 p.m.

Re: LH STE questions for B28
Kevin Mehegan -- Thursday, 9 February 2006, at 2:00 p.m.

Re: LH STE questions for B28
Walter Kaprielian -- Thursday, 9 February 2006, at 6:57 p.m.

Re: LH STE questions for B28
Terry -- Thursday, 9 February 2006, at 8:13 p.m.

Re: LH STE questions for B28
Bill Fuller -- Saturday, 11 February 2006, at 9:35 a.m.