from: http://www.socaljetboats.com/project-boats/1978-tahiti-jet-project/

yesterday i ripped out the floor, it was completely rotten.  whoever halfassed it didnt put a drain hole/vent so water gets in there and has nowhere to go.  surprisingly it was still wet when digging it all out.  prolly hasnt been in the water in at least a year.  gross.  gonna fiberglass in a new resin covered floor with drain on each side.  pulled all the electrical out, ordered 4 48x3x1/8 aluminunm plates for the 1/4 stringers.  ordered plate for the dash, ripped out all the gauges and junk under the dash, ripped out carpet.  ripped out old water lines and replacing with SS braided and fittings, replacing fuel lines and electric switch with ball valves and a T.  pix coming tonight...

so far so much fun!   

wow you go like to see some pics

                             rusty

got back from west marine.  epoxy resin, fiberglass sheet, drain plug, wiring, etc etc all purchased and ready to go.  home depot tonight for some 1/2 plywood and then its glassin time! 

forgot to mention that electrical was removed from the trailer and rewired with a ground.  screw trailer grounds... ugh.

welp... old floor completely ripped out, cleaned up, new plywood in, resin'ed up, and then 2 sheets of fiberglass on top of that with a few coats of resin and then a hot top coat.  then carpet was layed in.  time to pull the motor out, freshen it up, get some misc odds and ends, and drop it back in.  weee.


oh and river dad... working in havasu at night after lookin at some nice boats all day long = extreme motivation.  





also stopped at walmart in havasu and picked up ALL new trailer LED lights. 

  :thumbup:Awesome!

got some stuff done.  gotta wait for my dooley scoop to come in.  exhaust is bolted up, all hoses are cut, just gotta slap some hoseclamps on em.  then lifting the motor out, putting starter on, tq'ing flexplate bolts, got new u-joints tonight as well for the driveline.  bolt up the stringer plates.  found something i can use for a new rubber seal for the jet mount.  prolly start on electrical this weekend.  hopefully be at a point where i can crank it over soon.

slapped in the plugs, got some msd plug wires but gotta trim em to length.  put all the hoseclamps on the wire lines and made sure everything was tight.  hooked up the hose and turned the gate open all the way... water out the rear exhaust with no leaks anywhere.  gonna trailer it to hemet tomorrow and wax it up and hopefully start it tomorrow.  im excited.  had to drain a TON of gas out of the tanks and refill with 91. 

Good Luck and take some pic's   

the previous floor.  ugh.



gotta polish the logs.  gonna be WAAAY easier now that they're on.  also cut my spark plug wires to length.  gotta find some wire holder thingies that dont stick out too far.  id hate to walk along side and snag my leg on one or bend one.  



also would the liquid nails hold some small little wood mounting blocks to the hull that i can screw wire hold downs and small stuff into and NOT the hull itself?  or do i need to slap out the resin and do it that way? 

 

and its running.  got it wired enough to start it and let it get warm.  WOO HOO!  (uploading vid to youtube right now) had to buy a holly rebuild kit for the carb, got a HUGE fuel/water filter since there was some SERIOUS goo in the bottom of the tanks.  ill be carrying around a spare filter jsut in case i guess.

ran the rest of the wires and got a nice wire set from west marine that was originally $4.something a foot and on sale for $.76 a foot.  SWEEEEET.





nice thick wires for 12v, ign, ground, tach.  and ran another one for water temp, oil press, bilge pump, tank1/2.  

but ran out of crimp on ring terminals.  doh.  oh well theres always tomorrow.