ronjon1190
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Hi Everybody!
I am a long time lurker here, and I have found there is a TON of information on this site. Before diving into this project, I spent a lot of time reading about everyone else's rebuilds, and learned a lot!
After a bad summer with no boat last year due to ongoing motor problems, I was tossing around the idea this winter of buying a new outboard. On my birthday in December, my 5 yr old niece gave me 2 matching lures, and a hand made card with a drawing of us on a boat. She said “now we have the same lures when you take me fishing this summer!” (her dad said she insisted that she got me lures for my birthday! :lol: )
Just like that, I decided to buy the Tohatsu 50 4 stroke I had been eyeing up. It took a while to get the money together, but March 23, I took delivery, and started tearing the old Johnson off of the boat.
While I had spent a lot of time 2 years ago, patching a few places in the hull, and repainting the interior, When I took the old motor off, I found that the transom board was rotten. I can't put a brand new outboard on a questionable transom! Out came the splash well, and out came the rotten plywood. Underneath I found a dirty holy corroded mess. Interestingly the corroded parts were just where the plywood was. In addition to corrosion, there were about 40 extra holes from where people mounted who knows what over the years, some of which were badly patched, some not at all.
This picture is of the little fisherman that started me down this rabbit hole, and my helper, Scooter. He passed away in October. He never missed a boat ride! This picture was from the last repair I did on the boat a few years ago.
Heres some pictures of what I started with. (And of course, The Shiny New Powerplant!)
I am a long time lurker here, and I have found there is a TON of information on this site. Before diving into this project, I spent a lot of time reading about everyone else's rebuilds, and learned a lot!
After a bad summer with no boat last year due to ongoing motor problems, I was tossing around the idea this winter of buying a new outboard. On my birthday in December, my 5 yr old niece gave me 2 matching lures, and a hand made card with a drawing of us on a boat. She said “now we have the same lures when you take me fishing this summer!” (her dad said she insisted that she got me lures for my birthday! :lol: )
Just like that, I decided to buy the Tohatsu 50 4 stroke I had been eyeing up. It took a while to get the money together, but March 23, I took delivery, and started tearing the old Johnson off of the boat.
While I had spent a lot of time 2 years ago, patching a few places in the hull, and repainting the interior, When I took the old motor off, I found that the transom board was rotten. I can't put a brand new outboard on a questionable transom! Out came the splash well, and out came the rotten plywood. Underneath I found a dirty holy corroded mess. Interestingly the corroded parts were just where the plywood was. In addition to corrosion, there were about 40 extra holes from where people mounted who knows what over the years, some of which were badly patched, some not at all.
This picture is of the little fisherman that started me down this rabbit hole, and my helper, Scooter. He passed away in October. He never missed a boat ride! This picture was from the last repair I did on the boat a few years ago.
Heres some pictures of what I started with. (And of course, The Shiny New Powerplant!)