What’s going on guys I haven’t been on here in about 3-4 years. I took a long break on jet boats after I killed my olds for the second time in 5 years.
Well anyways I ended up getting another olds (#3)and decided to pull the cover off the boat after 3-4 years of neglect an being a storage unit. To my utter disgust the poor thing was hammered. I had more important stuff like the distributor starter alternator fuel pump and stuff like inside of what I thought was a good rubbermaid tote to my surprise it was filled to the brim with water 🤦🏼♂️.
Anyways some of the stuff I’ve done to it so far was completely cut buffed and waxed the entire hull. Pulled all of the interior out of it and notice the floor was sagging so I’m replacing that currently along with the bulkhead. I need to fix a crack that’s in the hull and need some advice on that.
As far as motor work goes I’m just going to use the block, intake, valve covers, and 10 quart pan. As far as the internals go, I’m going to swap in my old rotation assembly from the last motor which was the 496 set up from eagle (Mahle -5cc pistons, 7.10” eagle h beam rods, and eagle 4.5” crank) since that had maybe 20 hours on it and was perfectly fine.
I still need to find a better set of heads because I’m most definitely not running the j heads I have.
Slow but surly she will make her comeback and hopefully by june she will be usable. Then over next winter im planing on repainting it back to a more original scheme and redoing the seats to a bench and 2 buckets
