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New toy/project 1998 Sea Ray Seville



Not a lot done in the last couple of days. Darn life gets in the way at times.

Time for an update:

Steering: Sea Star tech support is amazing. With a small description and knowing how the helm is mounted was about all it took. HS5151 is the Helm Seal kit and the o-ring you need is 113 dimensions OD 3/4, ID 9/16, cross section 3/32. It was suggested I hit up any hydraulic place and they'd have it. I instead hopped on Amazon and found 100 of the correctly spec'd rings for $2.97 delivered in two days. Holler if you need some o-rings. :th_biggrin2: Ordered more fluid and the right fill tube.

Tires/rims arrived. I'll put them on in a couple days when the boat is in the driveway to lift the motor. Speaking of lifting it, I purchased a lifting eye hook/flywheel puller to do the job. There is literally no where else I'd want to lift the motor from.

Speakers will arrive tonight, so will a stern light and new stern light socket. Also snagged a plastic lens restore kit from my buddy.

Anchor, we all need one! Buddy at work came through with a perfectly sized anchor for free. A bit of rope and leader chain and that will be covered. :th_thumb-up:

Started taking the oxidation off the boat. If any of you boat guys have suggestions, I'm open to suggestions. I started using Wolfgang's Uber (cleaner/polisher/sealer all in one) and it's working good with an orange cutting pad. Then I was waxing with Sovergn.

Still looking for something that will tell me depth a bit in front of the boat, if you know of a fishfinder/depth finder that does what I want.. please toss those suggestions too. I'm hearing conflicting info about yes/no on getting any distance in front of the boat.

Also saw a few things on redoing some of the upholstery, might be trying my hand at it soon.
 
Thanks Mark. one-clicked it.

Stern light, light holder and speakers delivered,

I'm stuck in a meeting for at least another hour. I want to work on boat.
 


Looks nothing like the old truck. I was watching some vids one night and a guy losing the outboard off a small boat was hilarious to me.

Last night's update:
Stern light sockets are held on by bolts and nuts, not screws. Pulled the interior side panel down and lubed the throttle at the same time as replacing the socket. Still very stiff, not sure if it's the throttle itself or the cables. Likely it's dried out cables and I'll need to address that again. Hoping the lube I sprayed in there does a bit of magic. Stern socket wiring is soldiered in wtih heat shrink, knowing the other was original it's odd that it was crimp connected. It's up to Bill specs now. Got two of the speakers installed as well. Need to soldier/heat shrink the speaker wires and run the additional two once I consult the rear bench that needs to be rebuilt and installed.

Motor lifting hook is in the mailbox.
Leaky steering o-ring arrives tomorrow
Steering fluid and filler Saturday
Zip ties for fuel lines arrive Saturday
Fuel lines arrive Monday
Damn.. I need trim hydraulic fluid

Work for tonight can include:
Cleaning gauges further
Fix holes in lower dash from compass and ancient fish finders.
Clean vinyl further
Cleaning rest of boat further (I keep vacuuming and it keeps getting dirtier)
Trim motor replacement (soldier on weatherproof relays the ones they send aren't)
Wheel/tire swap
Wash exterior

Future list:
Buff rest of boat with new stuff Markpa suggested
Fuel lines
Pump fuel tank and rinse with more fuel since tank doesn't come out of boat until stringers are replaced.
Cut down/find good strap for back of boat. Front is all set with winch and safety cable, rear strap is missing.
Figure out flooring, likely going over for this summer and doing it right come fall.
Keep looking for depth finder that might give me a little forward sight.
Buy screws for instrument panel (stainless, originals weren't SS)
about a billion other things I haven't thought of yet.

At some point, I will be putting an exterior outlet on the shed. Sure an extension cord is working well, c'mon though... who am I?

I probably need to mow the lawn tonight too. And I'm out of Costco microfibers to clean boat with. Geez, I wonder if my personal assistant will run errands for me.
 
Pulled boat into garage last night to do the trim motor. Got the engine off the boat w/o unhooking much. Using an engine hoist and the correct flywheel lifting hook is awesome. Things have been going extremely well and I was overdue for a setback. The trim motor we pull off has a hex drive and the new part looks like a flat blade. I found this part via searching by serial number (the only number on the engine/transom), after going through a few other model numbers etc I found one with a hex drive. Literally one out of seven models is hex, all the others are flat. Put engine back on boat for the time being.

Swapped the new tires onto the trailer and greased up the bearing buddy's. If you aren't familiar as I wasn't.. bearing buddies are a piece that sit in front of the bearing with a spring loaded front. You fill them with grease through a zerk and they automatically keep the bearings greased. Had a couple of beers and moved boat back to the pad by shed.

Ordered hex motor with a pumping assembly that goes on the end of it. Hopefully this will keep me from going backwards again.
 
Looking at other issues. Having unhooked the throttle and shift cables, I found the stiffness or tough time moving the lever is related to the shift rod on the outboard. Trying to figure this out it looks like the top of the rod goes down through the tube in about the middle and exits the tube at the bottom against the back of the tube. Back being the prop side not transom.

Seems odd to me because if the mounts down there were worn, I'd expect them to collapse not push further back. Any ideas from the fellow boaters?

Cleaned up gauges quite a bit. They aren't new and won't ever get much better. :th_thumb-up:
Installed that o-ring and refilled steering. Leak free is nice. :cool:
Heading back out to install a couple of power outlets (installed but didn't hook up one)
Siphoned fuel tank out
Picked up a couple kits of SS screws etc.
 
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that linkage is pushing and pulling a lever to push the dog gear form N to R or F. you got gear oil in the lower drive there?

you may also need to wd-40 the crap out of the linkage on the engine due to rust and crap maybe.
 


I think something else is up here. Not sure though. It really looks like that tube is putting pressure on it and I can't see why it would be like that. Everything is actually in great shape and lubed up.
 
Swapping springs in a Camaro took a lot longer than it should have yesterday. Beer, heat, general laziness after we were done, and ..... my buddies wife crashing the mower into a large bush in the yard were among the extras that were mixed in. Thinking about putting the bumper on the mower. :th_sick1:

In talking with Cap'n Doggs and my buddy there are a few spare items you want on the boat that the coast guard doesn't require. Like a spare prop, floating prop wrench, and a second boat plug. Being that my boat takes a 3/4" NPT plug I wanted to get something that I could put in and out by hand instead of requiring a wrench on hand (partially because when I got the boat the plug had been in for 10+ years and you want it open when it's not in the water)

I ordered one of these
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Started cutting out the rotted flooring. From what I can tell so far the stringers are solid inside the fiberglass. I'll keep poking as there is plenty of rotted wood, but I'm hopeful the stringers won't need to be replaced.
 
That's good news, finding solid wood structure. You have probably figured out by now not to touch the hot water faucet when washing off glass dust.
 
I try not to wash off glass dust. But yeah.. opening pores would be bad.

Any ideas on that shift issue Matt? Seems like you have a bit of knowledge all around
 
Yesterday:
Saw a guy restoring a boat and liked how he used PVC piping to support his tarp for bad weather working. Did the same to my boat yesterday but to a lesser height in order to tarp it nice for bad weather. Works great.

Today:
Got a reply on one of the boat forums about the shifting. The suggestion was to pull the lower unit swap the impeller and do the fluid. I drained the fluid and pumped some fresh in there since there's really nothing more to do and the impeller is working fine. I'll run it a bit and change the fluid again. Found a little water in the fluid as it drained, so I want to do it again to see if there's a leak on one of the seals. If so, LU will get pulled and gone through to change the seals.

Replaced the fuel lines that go from carb to carb swapped. Ordered the fuel line and prime/siphon bulb from the tank to the engine as it's cracked and nasty.

It was raining most of today and I needed to help the wife at work this afternoon, so the morning was boat. :cool:
 


I looked up outboard shift shaft and um yeah, naw. No knowledge of these things. I built sailboats and bass boats, never messed with out-drives and such. But its only metal and we are somewhat mechanically inclined, right? Guessing you have a not wanting to operate smoothly situation and are wanting to find out if the binding is damage or wear or even where its not right. Whar's the pics?
 
You nailed it. I consider myself slightly mechanically inclined lol.

Giving some fresh fluid a whirl to loosen stuff up and clean things up. Figure if I do that and run it a bit, hopefully things loosen up. Plus I found a little water in it when I drained it. I'll want to see if I again have water, if so I need to tear it apart and do the seals.
 
No news from yesterday, it was hang out with wife night. (and change a strut in a camaro)

New fuel line from tank to engine and the inline pump/siphon ball are coming in today. Last night at 8pm the trim motor/pump arrived. I am excited about the trim motor, the old one was a solid chunk that had no chance of working. Looked like a rusticle on the titanic. Hopefully tonight both get done. All depends on if buddy shows up, then I have a truck to move the boat lol.
 
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