Well now that it’s cooling down and I had a few free hours today I figured i needed to go strip the donor boat for this project. Before I stripped it I figured I’d try to start her and see how she runs. It has a 2003 175 Johnson. Motor is super clean and looks very low hour. Got some gas to her and she started but ran very badly. Smoke was coming back out of the air box quite a bit so I knew something was wrong. Pulled the plugs and one was bone dry. Put my finger over the hole and cranked it and felt nothing. Shined a light in and could quickly see something wasn’t right. Figured it’d only take a second to pop the head off so I did and this is what I found.
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Not sure if the VRO failed or what but it’s not good. Cylinder wall is tore up pretty badly. The scratches in it may be able to be bored but it beat the living heck out of one of the ports. I looked to try to find a sleeve but have had no luck. So it’s back to the drawing board.
Anyways I continued to strip the boat, got the T-Top, console, cooler seat, windshield, and plan on snatching the poly tank out as it is a huge tank. It’ll be real nice for trips across the bay. Time to get cranking on this thing, just got to figure out the motor situation. I do have the 200 Evinrude off the boat I got from Destroyer as I’m not convinced I’ll be fixing that boat. Lot of rotten wood in her. May just part it out.