Island dwellers attend Swap Meet

[GB SISSON]

Originally Posted by cas3

Buddy L is cool stuff. Glad you had a nice day on the mainland, now get back to work!

LOL, hows the rear end project going?

Skip, you had'ta ask...

When all the parts came together for the rear axle I got into a work crunch for my best contractor. Then I got the opportunity to buy my diesel '59 f350 9' express back.....(a week of goofing with that), Then I ran into a guy that knew I liked inboard boats and he offered me a 20' shamrock. I had one with a marinized 302, but sold it when a guy offered me 9500 bucks for it. This one has a mercruiser 470. Engine has issues but I knew about a low hour
85 hp Perkins 4 cyl FWC diesel being pulled for an electric motor refit. So out it came. Buddy with a 30' boom truck pulled it for me.. Hadn't run for 25 years until about 3 hours ago. Had clean oil and antifreeze. I changed out the filters this morning. After a bunch of tinkering and wiring and temporary controls and a wooden stand I finally started it with a blast of wd 40 while cranking. Now it starts and runs very smooth. Shamrock offered that very diesel as an option in the 70s and 80s. I had some difficulty downloading the distrubutor photos so here's some of the boat stuff. Promise I'll go back to the swap meet parts tomorrow. It;s late now, even on the Left Coast.