I need help before I break something trying to remove bowl from suction housing. I want to powder coat the external parts on the pump. I have removed transom adapter, steering housing,deflector and reverse gate. Now I need to remove bowl. Pump is still in boat, I did not want to remove it if possible. I see eight bolts holding bowl to section section. I see there is a bowl bearing (bushing) at rear of bowl. Can I remove this bearing (1" hex) and then 8 bolts and will bowl then pull off leaving impeller shaft and impeller in suction housing. Is the bowl bearing right hand thread? Seems to be tighter then the Virgin Mary. I know this is an expensive piece so i don't want to break it. Should I heat the vane area of the bowl and then use my 1" socket and big breaker bar. I hate using that word breaker.

Hello SoCalJetBoat World...
I just joined this form but have been watching it for years. My back ground is a water skier and a 18' horizon boat owner from the early 1970s (so you can tell I'm a tired old guy who needs help). With that said here is my recent problems that I would like some opinions on.  Went to Big River a couple of weeks ago and got my boat out of storage after more than two year of no use. Changed oil, new gas, battery and cleaned it up. Put it in water and tried to fire it up. Several bad internal metalic sounds as it turned over then starter stuck or should I say engine didn't want to turn over anymore. Back to camp site and pull valve covers. All intake valve push rods bent like heck. End of trip, pull heads (intake valves and ports full of black tar) head home. If valve job saves heads I'll go get boat and bring it home for some repairs. My questions are: Black tar may have gone down into piston rings, how to clean without removing pistons? Next, do you think hyd lifters might be wasted, how to tell? Hopefully timing didn't get mess up, like jump a tooth or so on the timing sproket. Hopefully cam didn't get mess up (push rods seem to be weak link which is a good thing). As you can tell I've been a bit negligent as in my younger days I ues to work, repair, clean and use that boat all the time. Now there are just to many things to do. Oh yes, by the way I have let some gas go bad which I'm sure has something to do with my troubles.
Cheers to all!