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Rebuild Repower
Well it's about that time. My family is has been extremely lucky to get the last two seasons out of the boat with out much needing to be done. This season ended a few weeks ago when I F^#@ed up. The 86 seadrive was overheating, and I couldn't find the problem. After doing everything I could think of, I pulled the head covers to look at the cooling channels. Well two of the piston sleeves had small cracks at the very ends. Ok well I knew the engine was on its last life, but I killed it when I broke a bolt off in the cooling head cover. I tried to drill it out and some how punched a hold though the the head cover.
  Yeah I messed up hard.So I'm going to start the rebuild next week. I have a flotation stainless steel marine 30 in setback bracket I'll pick up in Dec. The transom is mush so I will start with that. Putting in an order at US composites for 5 gallons Vinyl ester, 25 yards of 1708, 1708 tape, and micro balloons. The engine is where I still have a lot to decide. There are three main options I'm looking at. a newer used optixmax, a new mercury 4 stroke, or a new Suzuki df175. All are 500-550 dry weight so it really just depends on what i can get. you guys have any thoughts before! pic to follow.
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 1986 V20 Cuddy in pieces  "WILD FINN" 
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08-31-2018, 04:40 PM
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forgot to put if anyone wants the old seadrive it's up for grabs. You pick it up and it all yours.
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08-31-2018, 06:04 PM
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ST, you might want to reach out to pipe dream. He just put a new Suzuki df175 on his v20 I'm sure he would have a lot of input about how well it worked out for him.
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An adventure is a disaster that fails to kill you!! 1987 V20 Cuddy 175 Yamaha SOLD 1996 V21 Cuddy 200 OceanRunner SOLD 1994 V21 Cuddy 150 Mercury SOLD
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08-31-2018, 09:00 PM
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Armchair all the way, but out of those three options I would go for the Suzuki.
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1985 Wellcraft V-20, Evinrude ETEC 150: SOLD 1979 Marine Trader 44, twin Ford Lehman 120s 2006 Panga 14, Tohatsu 20
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09-01-2018, 06:30 AM
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I am assuming that you are going to put a bracket on your boat, there have been several people who did that over the years here on the site, as I remember, the most important thing to consider for the new motor is weight...the lighter the better.
I am a Suzuki 4 stroke fan as well, the 140 I had on my V worked very well, it was 410#s dry.
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*************************************** Stay Safe!  Sold - 1984 V-20 Cuddy with a 2003 Johnson 140 hp gas sippin 4-stroke. 1995 Ranger 250C with a 2015 Suzuki 300 hp 4-stroke.
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09-03-2018, 01:58 PM
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Thanks for the suggestion.
Well I have a few hours today so I decided to try and get the engine off. The wiring was more of a pain in the *** then the engine. Here are a few pics!
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1986 V20 Cuddy in pieces "WILD FINN"
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