Recent content by Pikemaster25

Took my boat out the other day and noticed some water in my lower unit. Checked the easy fix and replaced the seals on the drain and vent screws, but took it out today and had the same thing. Figure the next step is the prop shaft seals ? Any thoughts on this ? I've attached a picture of what...

Transom project is finished ! Thank you everyone for all the help and tips.

Finally got the last thing I needed to finish up this transom rebuild. Time to get her epoxied up and put back together this weekend

Transom cap was in great shape, so I can reuse it !

I'd vote for slapping a new Evinrude etec on it. I'm still a sucker for simple two stroke haha. Whatever you decide, welcome and enjoy it !

I just used good quality 3/4 inch bcx exterior grade plywood. Glued together to make 1.5 inches and then I will be covering the whole thing in epoxy to seal it

Update. Got the old wood out, cleaned up the aluminum and filled the holes with JB weld and got the new transom cut and glued together. Now just gotta get the new wood covered in epoxy and I should be good to go ! Thanks for all the help guys

I don't plan on actually removing the skin to clean it up. Everything is riveted in and it's not worth me ripping that all apart. I'm gonna clean it as good as I can with leaving it all together, then epoxy the crap outta it and slide in the new wood. If that lasts me another 5 years I'll be...

Sooo any tips on how to lift the old wood out ? I got all the bolts and screws out that hold it in, but that bugger doesn't wanna budge

Yea I plan on just jb welding the damage to the aluminum, and then epoxying over it. I figure I'll put a layer of epoxy on the inside of the aluminum too, where the wood goes.

Got the cap off. Things look good so far. I imagine there is moisture somewhere in the wood, but it looks bone dry on the top

Also, if the wood is still in good shape and I can get it out in one piece, could I just epoxy it up and reuse the same piece of wood since it's not pressure treated ?

Gotcha. Yea the wood on the inside seems to be in good shape, but there were too holes from an old outboard that were never sealed up properly where moisture could have gotten in. And I ran it almost exclusively in saltwater last year. Would I be able to reuse the existing bolts and just put new...

Okay, so this is what I'm looking at for my transom ...

There are also rivits on the transom of this boat. Do they typically have to come out to remove the wood ? If so, do I have to replace them with rivits again ...