[macojoe]

1. Rod boxes, FP is the place to go, so you good there.

2. That is a problem that all have! It has been fixed here many times and there is a couple of threads about it, Easy fix!

Gas tank can be pressure tested in place, But I have never done it, again not hard, unless it leaks, then we have done that here also! Harder fix buy very do able !!

3. Sounds like you are going to do what we have all done, REWIRE! You can do it, but just have to go slow, and tag everything as you go.

4 Dash can be replaced with 1/4 starboard, in most cases you can go to your local mariner (I Did) and they will let you go to there scrap pile, I got enough for my dash for $10.

As for small screw or bolt holes, I used Formula 27, filled every thing nice!

Sounds like you have some work ahead of you, but its all perrty stright forward!!
I have had my boat since 1998, and there has not been one year that I have not fixed something!! Some cause i needed to, and stuff that I just wanted to do.

Good Luck, start with one project at a time, you will have the boat a long time! Enjoy it!! What you don't fix this year will be there next year!