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Sorry for the late response...And thanks for your help. I feel like Luke Skywalker and you're Obi Wan Kanobi helping my mind mend.
Anyway the gaskets were pretty bad and the top strbrd piston looks like it has some damage. About an 1/8" is dissintergrated from about 1 1/2" of the circumference of the face edge. It looks like it may have siezed a while back and left a little piston on the cyliner wall. But the funny thing is that the cylinder walls look pretty clean, some very feint scores, almost less than the thickness of a hair.
The walls "(Are any of the cylinder walls steel? or are they all still original chrome?)" are definately not chrome and if I had to guess I would say there is less that 1/32" space all the way round the piston.
I haven't had time or energy after work to do anything but I will do a comp test this afternoon.
I followed the mfg specs on torqueing and seems to be ok 30 lbs. in X pattern.
This boat actually came from your neck of the woods. Was Called 'Summer C's' white hull red letters 23 scepter. I bought it from Nauset Marine.
At this stage time and money is running out so I'm gonna put her in and hope she'll at least plane off and get me a few miles to the bass/flounder and have the block pulled in the fall and take it home and try a rebuild.
What do you think? or cheaper to save up for a rebuilt power head....What kind of numbers would you say that would run...if you know?
Any way I'll keep checking for your reply and keep you up on it...right now going to fix my roof and get some bottom paint on the old girl.
Thanks again,
Joe
I will try to send you some pics too