Inboard Parker
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Earlier this summer we found that our inboard Parker had motor problems. (As stated in my 'Hello all" post).
We have finally gotten the motor out of the boat. The motor has been ready to come out (or so we thought) for a while now, we were just waiting for the crane who takes our floats out of the water to show up (Nov 4) and we were going to use him as well. We got the motor out on the same day but had one issue. We had taken all the bell housing bolts off except we missed one. This boat has a top mounted starter that is mounted directly to the bell housing and faces away from the motor (completely opposite of a normal starter). Unknowing to us, there is another bolt that is buried on the inside of the hole that the starter went into. When we took the starter off we never noticed (or even thought to look) inside the there. Live and learn. We ended up breaking off a triangle piece of the aluminum bellhousing. Nothing a quick trip to the welder couldn’t fix but none the less......aggravating!
Beyond that, everything went very smoothly. All the bolts came out with no effort what so ever. I was surprised how easily it came apart seeing how it’s a 1993.
The motor now sits in my garage on an engine stand and we are waiting for after the holidays to buy the new motor (maybe Santa will bring it for me....... Yeah right!!) Once we get the new motor we will switch everything that needs to be switched over and install in the spring. We plan to changing over as much as possible in the garage to make our life easier when we put it back in.
Porkchunker mentioned seeing the boat with the motor out of it so I snapped a couple quick pics with the phone (sorry for the low quality) The fuel tanks run on each side of the engine compartment.
We have finally gotten the motor out of the boat. The motor has been ready to come out (or so we thought) for a while now, we were just waiting for the crane who takes our floats out of the water to show up (Nov 4) and we were going to use him as well. We got the motor out on the same day but had one issue. We had taken all the bell housing bolts off except we missed one. This boat has a top mounted starter that is mounted directly to the bell housing and faces away from the motor (completely opposite of a normal starter). Unknowing to us, there is another bolt that is buried on the inside of the hole that the starter went into. When we took the starter off we never noticed (or even thought to look) inside the there. Live and learn. We ended up breaking off a triangle piece of the aluminum bellhousing. Nothing a quick trip to the welder couldn’t fix but none the less......aggravating!
Beyond that, everything went very smoothly. All the bolts came out with no effort what so ever. I was surprised how easily it came apart seeing how it’s a 1993.
The motor now sits in my garage on an engine stand and we are waiting for after the holidays to buy the new motor (maybe Santa will bring it for me....... Yeah right!!) Once we get the new motor we will switch everything that needs to be switched over and install in the spring. We plan to changing over as much as possible in the garage to make our life easier when we put it back in.
Porkchunker mentioned seeing the boat with the motor out of it so I snapped a couple quick pics with the phone (sorry for the low quality) The fuel tanks run on each side of the engine compartment.