Slide hammer for removing the shaft from the couplers. https://www.generalpropeller.com/minderman-pullers/shaft-puller Jim, I like the slide hammer idea although I hear some "don't do it", have you had good luck with this technique? I have had excellent luck with this over the last 20 years. I can'...

Put a a hook in the ceiling and a small ring hook into the pole and hang it with a piece of string. If you drop it it just swings with out hitting anything and messing up your varnish.

1 inch foam brush works really well.

Slide hammer for removing the shaft from the couplers.


https://www.generalpropeller.com/minder ... aft-puller

The big problem with using the tape is when a fitting is removed and reinstalled or another fitting put in its place. Pieces of the tape will be in the threads and the new fitting will push them out in to the tubing. Then they have the chance of getting to the carb and stopping it up.

Yes. You defiantly need an original set of lines. If you use tubing smaller then 1/2" you run the risk of damage to the engine bearings. As the engine oil passes through the cooler before going to the bearings. With oil nowadays you really don't need a cooler. To get rid of the cooler you have to pu...

Tempo is out of business. You want the short Mecrusier style fuel filter. The one you got is for the Crusader engines. Sierra 18-7944 is the one you want.

I would use whichever is the least expensive to have made. If your having reproductions of the originals made.

As far as hooking up a mechanical oil gauge. You would just run the copper tubing to were the oil sender is and connect it to the pipe the oil sender is screwed into.

Now that I have an engine I'm going to get started on gauge restoration. Is this the electronic oil pressure sending unit? I need to advise if the oil pressure gauge needs to be electronic, and assume for this engine it does? Thanks. Thats the oil pressure sender for the gauges Chris Craft used sta...

I was going to say 63 or 64 because thats when the alternator started.

You can make new gaskets from lunch paper bags. The thickness is about the same as the original.

How did it run after you got it back?

rbrinks wrote:Does anyone know where I could purchase exhaust elbows for a 431 exhaust manifold?

I can sell you a whole engine that comes with Barr replacement manifolds from back in the day.

I have decided on a new complete 350, I have also removed my 283 as well as all the flooring, the hull of the boat appears to be in pretty good shape. According to the paperwork I received on the boat the last time it had anything major done to it was the early 2000 so just wondering as long as eve...

A gauge shunt is a calibrated resistor that accurate reduces the current through itself and those reduced current points are tapped.The gauge connects to theses taps and sees a fractional ratio of the actual current (actually voltage drop). The gauge is calibrated to read the reduced current and di...

Is the amp gauge used with the large shunt so common on 1960's Chris Crafts different than a garden variety amp gauge? Have an amp/oil pressure combo gauge that doesn't seem to work. VOM shows 14 volts when running so I think the alternator is working, but the amp gauge shows nothing. Yes. The gaug...

Hi Jim- Thanks for the information, can I ask where you are getting that information from? The wood I pulled off my boat didn't appear to be Ribbon Striped. The only part that did was the engine box. The styling addendum I got from the archives calls out ribbon stripped mahogany on the engine box o...

Thank you everyone for your information on this topic! Denny- thanks so much for all your detail, it really helped this past weekend at Homestead Hardwoods. If any of you are within driving distance of Vickery, Ohio, this place is worth the trip. I found the wood I needed for the stringers and the ...

Steve,

Heres a picture of the original stain that was behind the piece of wood on the dash of the last 19 Barrel I restored. This boat had come out of Canada about 15 years ago. Hull number is 48564.

The CCFA number is the 12 digit number the Coast Guard started requiring all manufacturers to use starting in 1972. The last 4 digits are the month and year the boat was built. The first 2 digits are the boat manufacturer. Chris Craft still used their old hull numbering system for internal tracking ...

Thanks Don, I had been looking at his website and have to say that it might be done when all other avenues have been exhausted. Ed, The main thing I'm not confident of is if those have a center top pocket that the throttle and horn components will fit into, and what the top mounting method is - tap...

Yep.

There was also a taylor made emblem that went there that looks a little bit like a lighting bolt and is just metal color.

Your setting up the pump to match the rotation of the engine. Your doing it so it will pump fluid through the trans to operate. Its not going to make a left hand engine into a right hand engine. There are transmissions available today that will do that. Now if you want to use the left hand engine in...

Been doing it for 20 years. Works great with the clear gloss and okay with the one for teak that you don't have to sand between coats.

Install a new one in the spring.

The drawings don't normally show the through hull fittings. I would look in the ACBS directory and find one close to you and go measure off of it. Unless its a show boat I would not put the rear siphon drain back in. Its simple to measure. Measure up the plank the hole is on from the transom. Then m...

The seal assembly was discontinued for that pump years ago. Do not run the engine with the pump leaking a lot of the pumps had an open roller bearing. Which means it can feed water into the motor. I would send the pump to Van Ness or Portland Machine in Maine and have it rebuilt. They machine the ca...

jnbailey71 wrote:Jerry- I will look into it, I like your idea and it would be great documentation for the memories. Antique Boat Center has this in their shop 24-7, pretty cool to check in on what they are working on!

Until your seen scratching your butt or picking your nose.

Thanks for the suggestions Jim- it looks like Condon also has the type of plywood I have been looking for. So far I've only been able to find Occume.... and they deliver! Do not use their Philippine Mahogany plywood. If its still the same as it was 15 years ago. The inner plys are junk wood and wil...

You want vertical grain Douglas Fir from Condon Lumber.