seafari 25-engine beds

[Islandtrader]

Originally Posted by GERRY

Does anyone know the approximate height the engine bed stringers need to be, to install a mercruiser 5.7 or Volvo 5.7 engine? I do not have the engine yet just getting ready to replace original stringers that were altered from original height from previous chrysler powerplant.

I know this won't give you the exact answer but this is what happened to me.

When I made the decision to go with mecruiser I hauled the boat down to the dealer that was going to do the install. He put a jig in the boat and told me the height the stringers had to be. So I just made some pads to raise the stringers to the height he wanted. For some reason he said that using a angle iron L bracket would not work....

See Post 153 on my re-build thread (around page 4) for a detail of the build.