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Still trying to get the boat back together. Exhaust boot turned into the gimbal bearing which turned into rebuilding the gimbal ring and mount.
Have a new lift pump to go in after my old one shit the bed last year. On a gut instinct I pulled the lift rams of and compressed them by hand sure enough one went crunch crunch at the bottom. Pulled it apart to find the inner piece in pieces. Found out they were no longer available from mercruser. Tried the after market and also discontinued there. Dropped one off at the local boat shop he was gonna do some digging on retrofits. 20 min after I dropped it off another guy stopped in looked at it and said hey I have a pile of those exact cylinders. Scored a pair that are perfect for $100. Lucked out big time.
Just finished cleaning them up. Was one cotter pin short of getting it reasembled this evening.
Mmmmm. The lake is calling.
The lake bright and early is a beautiful thing.
'88 LX
spent my birthday weekend up at long point and was stoked to take the boat but just didn't have time to get it done. probably for the best as it was fairly choppy anyway.