Weather was perfect today....finally a chance to work on the boat so i can get on the lake. .....cleaned the bilge, it needed it......removed the loose bilge pump  ( it had been put in with what looks like liquid nails ).  Got a new one.....Pulled the old plug wires and tossed em, have nice new 8.5 wires to replace them, the remote oil filter is now plumbed, the old dipstick was cracked and leaking from 2 places, new aluminum one ready to install. Re-torqued the manifold bolts, checked all the motor mounts and pump hardware.
RR'd the old fuel lines water lines and filters. Finished installing the new exhaust studs, still need the nuts.

The diverter I bought on eBay was shipped to Place Diverter and rebuilt. Tim shipped it Wed so I should have it Monday. I'll work in that this coming week. He tuned up the control as well.

 The trailer is the original Gunter Hensley.   It's in pretty good shape but the bottom of both cross members have some cancer...... Going to work on that next week.  Lights too...
 The beer hold is clean and ready for duty as well.

Heres the pics....


My favorite is the BEER LOCKER! 



sheesh.................  apprently I am incapable of adding a photo that is upright...

Ooooo where did you get the blue hose?

Are you talking about the waterline or the fuel line?

LOL.  That's the same reaction I had when I saw it... From a place in Iowa or Nebraska I think...

Maybe....

I'll have to look it up tomorrow at my office. I'll get the info for you.

They are flex fit lines and about $6 a foot here in California if I remember right. They are cool because they have fittings like steel braided. Here is a picture of how my old boat came out.   

I am looking for the receipts for where I bought them. No bought the hose and then ordered the fittings from summit

Let me make a correction. I believe I paid around $3 a foot just for the hose and the fitting are about $5- $20 a piece depending on what you get. 

Ok, I finally found the receipt for the water hose.   

American Radiator. DesMoines Iowa
515-265-8818.

 I paid $40.16 for 16 feet of the 5/8" blue hose.   Ten bucks to ship it.
I bought the 'press on ' fittings at summit.

Lets try this again.

I am disassembling the diverter and replacing the nyliners and to clean it up as well. Here is the start.

I was thinking about polishing the steering arm and control arm, but I'm leaning toward just painting them now.

( less maintenance....)

white for the diverter body and a deep blue for the control and steering arms.  I don't know...just a little color for contrast..

Reverse gate was funky....I took off 3 or 4 of slightly different white paint layers and a painted over Sticker as well...

Malfunction on the pic.....LOL

 getting closer....  the diverter turned out OK..... It looked like it had been painted over many times...and an old Place Diverter sticker was under the paint layers as well. 

 I took the control apart and cleaned it up, sanded it and re-sprayed it a lighter color with a "spatter paint" .

I am curious about one thing, it had a 2 degree wedge on it: should I leave it on or does it matter with the diverter there now?  Maybe a little extra height on the roost?  Will it matter??

Diverter Cable and thru hull ordered and waiting to install everything... though I am still a little nervous about drilling a hole thru the hull for the cable....

Received diverter cable and thru hull fitting as well as nyliners.

Getting closer......



Shoulda know the pic wasn't gonna show up....   

The salt water in the atlantic is pretty brutal, saltier and more acidic than say the pacific. I blasted my used diverter, hard anodized it and used appliance epoxy. looks as good as it did when i put it on 2.5 years ago.

Cleaning up the (epoxy?) that was used to seal around the intake...