1968 22-2 FB rebuild

[RickK]

Is she gonna be in the water a lot?

[Aswaff400]

more than likely. ill put her in a slip at my work for a week or couple weeks at a time... from the old waterline down there are so many spider cracks from being left in the water it will be easier to just epoxy coat and bottom paint it than to sand/fair/gel it again.

[Aswaff400]

took a couple pics while i had the boat outside to take pics of the trailer. lots of work left but she is starting to look really good!

[CLM65]

Looking sweet, Aaron

[Aswaff400]

well, not really a whole lot to report this week, stared repairing the damage on the port bow, finished glassing the casting deck box. glassed on the side gunnel supports. i drilled the holes in the console for the rigging to come up in the console, and painted the inside of the console....











so far on the port side you can see where i have added 2 layers of 1.5oz chopped mat, and begun sanding... if you saw the cap, youd understand why i did this. the entire cap was completely covered in cracks both large and small, i mean COVERED... she'll be gelcoated with a light webbing and i think it will look much better in the long run than puttying over the cracks and having them come back after a few months of use.





and a little bit of my money had to go to the truck this week, nothing like  clogged fuel filters to ruin a day... not even 7,000 miles on this filter. after seeing that, i ordered a fuel filter/water separator from diesel site. took less than 30 minutes to install today, no drilling required... i would post a pic of it installed but.....   

[florida196]

That's a messy filter make sure you don't use anything but motorcraft filters in those 6.0 I made that mistake and cracked stand pipe slightly on motor mounted filter and clogged fuel rail with tiny piece of plastic and a few months and a lot of new parts later figured it out ford owns patent to those filters aftermarket are only about .020 different but anyways my .02

[Aswaff400]

i run nothing but motorcraft filters in the truck. a couple dollars more for the filters aint worth the risk.... dirty fuel, dirty oil, dirty coolant will kill a 6.0L pretty quick. i have 145K on my 6.0L. will be over 150K by the end of next month

[florida196]

Ya there pretty decent trucks still miss my 7.3 but after I did the egr delete coolant filter system on it blue spring kit and gauges of course and exhaust.  Pretty happy with it bought an sct and had custom econemy tunes made but none of the companies could get shift points right so got rid of that quick.  But good trucks.  Lol k back to aquasports

[Aswaff400]

got this in the mail from dirtwheels today, thanks bud!

[dirtwheelsfl]

[seabob4]

The classic Morse S.  You got a matching one for the other station Aaron?

[Aswaff400]

not yet, ill probably order a new set through work if i dont find another deal on a used set.

[dirtwheelsfl]

Ebay!

[gran398]

Morse makes a great product. If may make a suggestion....keep the wax on it. One little salt deposit starts the corrosion party

Miss D is on a lift....side-to a heavy SW wind all summer long.  So on that side...I leave a good coat of unwiped wax on the Morse. When get onboard to go for a spin....wipe it off. Takes about 5 seconds

[Aswaff400]

finally got some work done on the boat last 2 days, got the cap fully gelled, and in between coats i started mounting stuff, ground down so, got the porta bracket pump mounted high and dry in the console, mounted the battery charger. mounted the trolling motor battery trays below deck(no pics)... also started grinding out some of the old holes in the transom and filling them in...