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Originally Posted by kiwi
Thanks FS. Good camera angles hide a lot 
One last thing- while I have the cap off and have access to the deck drains that feed to the bottom of the hull, any reinforcing that you would advise adding to these? If so, how?
Thanks for all the help. |
On mine the brass tubes are corroded on the top where the flanges roll back. Instead of replacing them I will be running them out the back of the transom. With the 465lb motor I am using I think the original ones will be too low. The way most people repair them or beef them up that I have seen on this site is with thickened resin. They apply it around the blocks thick and use strips of 1708 wrapped around it to keep the resin in place till it hardens. I am filling mine in with scrap cloth cut to fit in the tube holes and filling with resin. I will use tape to close off the hole under the bottom of the boat and then added the cut up cloth and resin while packing it in and getting all the air out so it fills the tunnels left from the removed tubes full solid. Once that is done, I will add the thickend resin and wrap around the blocks between the hull and deck with the strips of 1708.