OK making some real progress now. Had a very skilled mechanic (Tony's Mobile Marine) over to the house today to perform the annual service on the 1990 Yamaha 150. It is a pleasure to pay for something when you can sit there and watch it get done right. I learned a lot (I haven't worked on 2-stokes much) and it was a good thing I serviced the motor now. The impeller was shot, half the plugs were rusty and none of the lower unit bolts would come off with out heat and a gentle hand turning those bolts without snapping the heads off. Replaced the water pump, gear oil, fuel pump diaphrams, fuel filter, and adjusted the idle.
Best of all Tony helped me install the hydraulic steering. It went very smoothly considering I picked the unit up from Craigslist. I am thrilled with the new helm & steering wheel. Anyway, on to the pix; excuse the mess nothing is cleaned up these are "in progress" shots:
SeaStar steering:
New Seachoice steering wheel, plus you can see that I mounted my other Craigslist find, the Garmin 498 GPS/Plotter:
You can see the discoloration from the torch used to remove the bolts from the gearcase:
I still need to secure this boot; Tony removed all of the cables, lines etc...from the motor to feed into the new boot:
I removed the old transducer and will be filling the 4 holes properly, will install the new one next week (outta town this weekend). Bad news that hole in the transom where the ducer cable came thru-there is no core left just soaked, rotten wood. Transom time!!
Electrical: These are the busses I installed behind the gauge panel. All of the positive wires are in-line fused for now. I am considering a new panel from ScottC on the Mako forums:
Installed this 12V plug in this crappy old piece of wood. I may put another ScottC panel here in the future:
Under the dash I installed an older Jensen CD player I used to have in my 24' Blackfin, into a water resistant case. Still works great so in she goes (real-world, remember!). The speakers were in the old boat too, mounted them under the tray, they thumbscrew into their metal bracket mounts so I left some extra speaker wire if I want to pull them out and face them toward us on the beach:
Till next time...