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Hi, it's Ray from pro shaper workshop in Charlton, Massachusetts
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And this is the well craft boat. This is I think episode number three on the well craft
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This is the boat we didn't know really the condition of the motor we had started it before and
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It kind of ran just for a minute or so because the fuel pump was no good and the carburetor was all dirty
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So we rebuilt the carburetor put a new fuel pump both low-dollar
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problem solving Solutions and we hope that the motor would be good. We didn't have a chance to start it yet
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but meanwhile mark has been cutting the floor all out and They had used marine plywood to make this floor structure and then they totally encapsulated the plywood
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Quote totally encapsulated the plywood But what happens I guess is very common and on all these boats is the wood gets permeated with the water and and
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rot sets in and it just never stops rot never sleeps whether it's wood or steel and
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All the wood was really punky So using that little vibrating multi Multi task tool or whatever they call it multi tool Yeah we bought a rigid one we spent more money on the tools than we did on the tool on the tooling and
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Mark cut out all the wood and it leaves the root of where the structure was which is going to be a nice
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Real helpful guide as to what we have to do. We don't have to measure anything. We'll just
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Be able to use all those roots to locate all the new structure and we're going to make the new structure all
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Totally out of fiberglass we're going to reinforce it maybe with a little stainless wire or something. We're going to basically cast it and
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One of the concerns was it's sitting on the trailer and it only had so many points of support with the trailer
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So before we cast the new fiberglass, I'm going to lift it up both in the front on the corners and on the back here
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and That way there the bottom will be hanging and it won't have those
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Support weight all on the rollers from the trailer which will deflect the bottom a little bit
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So I want the bottom to be relaxed So that's what we're gonna do and that's probably in the next month or so
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Would kind of doing this as a little fill job mark has been doing that so yesterday Frank Frank right here and we
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Got he got the motor started We fogged the cylinders and turned it over really good and we had a battery charger on so we could really whip the thing over good and
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We hooked up the new fuel pump in the carburetor and we had a gas bucket and it wasn't pulling the gas right away
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so we had a prime it with some ether and we poured a little gas and then finally it fired up and
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It fired and it was a little rough, but you know it RPM went up good. It sounded at a higher RPM pretty decent, but a lower RPM
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It was a little little bumpy and it didn't start too well
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So I says let's pull the plugs and let's check the the compression and the first zone that we checked
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It was like 60 pounds So we oiled it up a little bit to see if it would come up and went to like 90 pounds the other cylinders were
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150 it's a four cylinder motor 165 horsepower Merc cruiser. I really don't know what it is yet. I haven't done enough research to find out who made the motor
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so Okay so we have a low cylinder So as is all we got to do with the test on it to see what going on It could be a bad head gasket could be bad valves It could be bad rings
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Rings could have been frozen from sitting or it could be a scored cylinder bore
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So we ended up inflating that cylinder and it was leaking like crazy
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So it's going right into the crankcase. So they come the air pressure is going right by the rings into the crankcase
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so it has to come apart so we're pulling it out which will make putting the floor in easier and
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The other cylinders are 150 pounds. They were in nice shape So I don't think there's much wrong with the motor and I'm just hoping that it just stuck ring
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so right now we're about to pull that motor we Frank's got it all disconnected and
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That will make it a lot easier for a mock to cast this new sort of structure here. So
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So the next installment will be how we cast this floor will show you that and we'll probably pull the motor apart and show you
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What's going on there? But that's it from pro shaper workshop. This is Ray Shalene. Thanks for watching
