Weird Control Console Question

[Mungo]

Source of the post Before you go to far, I can see from the one pic you have mercury 3.7 liter 4 cylinder engines. Make sure they run good before you put a lot of time and money into anything else.
Repowering the boat will more than likely cost more than the boats value.

I would agree. We paid almost nothing for the vessel. Both engines will spin, but I suspect I'm looking at a new head gasket for the starboard one. The boat was in partial rebuild when it became apparently clear that although the boat was servicable, the relationship of the couple that owned it wasn't. Ah well. There are pieces missing and things unhooked because their re-do was interrupted.

Now I have to find props.

[Mungo]

Source of the post Before you go to far, I can see from the one pic you have mercury 3.7 liter 4 cylinder engines. Make sure they run good before you put a lot of time and money into anything else.
Repowering the boat will more than likely cost more than the boats value.

I would agree. We paid almost nothing for the vessel. Both engines will spin, but I suspect I'm looking at a new head gasket for the starboard one. The boat was in partial rebuild when it became apparently clear that although the boat was servicable, the relationship of the couple that owned it wasn't. Ah well. There are pieces missing and things unhooked because their re-do was interrupted.

Now I have to find props.

[bud37]

Source of the post

Source of the post Before you go to far, I can see from the one pic you have mercury 3.7 liter 4 cylinder engines. Make sure they run good before you put a lot of time and money into anything else.
Repowering the boat will more than likely cost more than the boats value.

I would agree. We paid almost nothing for the vessel. Both engines will spin, but I suspect I'm looking at a new head gasket for the starboard one. The boat was in partial rebuild when it became apparently clear that although the boat was servicable, the relationship of the couple that owned it wasn't. Ah well. There are pieces missing and things unhooked because their re-do was interrupted.

Now I have to find props.

Very good advice from Tom here regarding the power plants....they are the big money items...big money...

[tomschauer]

The 3.7's are an aluminum block made by Mercruiser with a head from a 460 ford. If there was a bad head gasket and it wasn't addressed immediately, odds are one or more cylinders are out of round, and the engine is junk.
There were a lot of these out there, and they weren't bad engines, but parts are very hard to come by these days and if you can find them $$$.
Merc 4.3's will bolt to the alpha drives without changing the gear ratio, but the engine mounts need to be replaced and relocated.
It all adds up pretty quickly to well over 10k even if you do the work yourself.