Good luck your project! Hope your success is much easier gained than ours haha!

Ohh, thats awesome that it held up, but not a gamble we're willing to take. Way to think outside the box!

Unfortunatley I think we're done with this one too. The floor is getting soft, its at a point now where its not work going any further.

Yeah it was not great to see the cracks. Good luck with yours though! Let me know if you get it fired up!

You should have posted a video of it takes to revive an old motor.

Thanks! We have not given up yet!

We have one actually! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z6t7oZagt52xeqc.html

Good luck! I certainly hope you have more success! Thanks for checking out the video!

We will def drain at the end of the season for sure from now on. Learned the hard way...

Good to know, thanks!

15 degrees max. You are right.👍

Good luck man! Will be awesome to get on the water again for sure!

Food for thought, this one was painted before I tore it apart, but maybe with a marine quality paint.

And now i see it would have not mattered anyways :(

Yep. Big Bummer lol

it was super apparent once we removed the intake. So you might start there, good luck!

Yes * you can use a raideator pressure tool to see any water leaks in your motor ☆ it's away of putting air pressure behind water , the water will come out of cracks * make sure the motor is all put together together so it will be a closed unit ☆ look for Sligh bubbling any where on the motor especially around combustion chamber in cylinder heads ☆ motor has to be together with radiator and hoses attached * pressure tool can be screwed on to radiator fill hole 🕳 I did this once snd and it worked perfectly 😊 * I think you can get this pressure tester at parts stores like O'REILLY''S 👍 don't be afraid,, it was really easy to do.....

We do have a motor and will be starting on the process soon! Keep an eye out, thanks for the kind words!

No, were not going to waste any more time on this shortblock. It may have not been really bad before we ran it, but it flexed so much I have no doubt in my mind it has warped and messed up tolerances. We may pull the inner goodies out but we won't be using this block

lol I know which part you just saw

Had some sort of pressure, but definitely wasn't just oil... 🤦‍♂️

It was not allowing fuel into the bowl of the carburetor

​@@RacerXGarageI was having the issue of not stopping fuel lol

​​@@RacerXGaragemay have to change the oil AGAIN. lol

It is tempting but the price of doing that in a boat vs. a car is drastically different.

I have no idea on how propane carburetors work so unfortunately I am no help here to ya. I hope you get it figured out!

Its definitely been a bit of a project! If we weren't so emotionally attached to it, we'd of given up by now

it sucked to find out!

It's been too long ago, and unfortunately I do not remember

No sir, its sitting patiently waiting to go on the new engine

Definitely cracked block. You can see it at the end of the video in the valley under the pushrods

We're looking, hard to find without a TON miles

@@RacerXGarage JUST REBUILD IT. NEW CRANK AND PISTONS BORE IT OVER 20 OR 30 ITLL BE FINE.

YOUR DOING REALLY GOOD THOUGH I AM ENJOYING THE SERIES!

Indeed

We know the crank is beefier on a Marine motor, and I believe the camshaft is different. With that said, if we find one cheap enough we would try anyway I think... we'll see

@@RacerXGarage there the same. Gm didn't build special internal components for mercury. It's simply a truck engine. Truck cam, truck crank. They put brass freeze plugs in it and slapped a cast iron manifold on it.

Indeed!

I'm not sure I follow what you're saying

It was quite frustrating, but we'll get back on it in the fall

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