Playroom Build Thread

[Sriver43]

Does anyone have the measurements for throttle cables handy? Ours are in rough shape…. Not sure how much of a difference it will make. We put new throttles in and got three more knots out of the top end…..

[Geebert]

Wow.
Your old throttles must have been really heavy.

[Carl]

It doesn’t hurt to change put cables in rough shape.


But if doing to see if you gain more cable travel…have someone manually goose the throttle at carb or throttle body / terminal end and see what if anything gained.


At dock, with motors off, pin the throttles and see how much additional travel you have at terminal end. Travel points are also adjustable.

[Sriver43]

So a few updates here. Over the winter time we built a frame around the boat in my backyard and had it wrapped in shrink wrap.

[Tony Meola]

Cole

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[Sriver43]

[Sriver43]

So the building survived the winter, this spring the winds really picked up around here and the tent blew apart and eventually blew off. So come time to spray paint and the building we built was completely useless.

[Sriver43]

We decided to use Alexseal paint with an off white color. Because of budgetary and time constraints, we decided to only paint the engine boxes, deck boards, bulkhead and combing. Took a lot of time to sand fill and fair but we are getting there.

The original plan was to roll the paint which was why we chose alexseal. Everyone we talked to advised us to try and spray if we can. So one of our friends had the equipment and skills to do so and kindly volunteered.

[Sriver43]

This is us spraying high build primer

[Sriver43]

Deck boards all sprayed

[Sriver43]

Lots more sanding and fairing, then we did primer and then topcoat this past Saturday and Sunday. I think everything turned out great given the givens. The finished product looks a lot like three guys drank a bunch of beers and painted it in the backyard but hey, doing the best with what we have!

[Sriver43]

The goal is to spray non-skid this weekend. Our friend with the spray expertise has left town for the weekend and left us with his spray gun and written instructions. How bad could it be?

Will post more pics upon completion of the work.

[Carl]

One of the most important things...clean the gun very well after your done.

From what I can see, looks like a great job!

[Amberjack]

Beautiful place to work on a boat

[PeterPalmieri]

Looks great

[John F.]

Nice job.

[Sriver43]

So the old exhaust Ys we had were very tired. Picture to illustrate:

[Sriver43]

When we pulled the old Ys out we also got a look up the tubes. One of the liners on the starboard bank coming from the starboard motor was coming up and blocking part of the pipe. We suspect this was causing a loss of power at the top end. We had been having some trouble with the starboard motor temps rising and being down on power when we were really hard on the throttle. Hopefully a new exhaust pipe solves the problem!

[Sriver43]

New Ys installed.





New Chevy small block helping old Chevy small blocks.




Non-skid turned out pretty nicely!