Time for an update. After updating and upgrading several things on the NOS Cummins NA B6M, it was time to re-power the boat. I brought the boat through the California Delta to Ladd’s Marina in Stockton. This yard allows DIY guys to perform most work on their own boats and they will assist as needed. Stockton is also as close as I could bring the boat to my home and shop, about 60 miles away.
Once on the hard, I had Ladd’s install a bow thruster and do the bottom paint while I concentrated on the engine room. We had to remove a long section of handrail to allow the engines to go through the cabin door and over the cap rail. We then had to cut out most of the main cabin floor to get the old engine and genset out and the new or updated stuff in. Because the door opening is only 19 ¼” wide, I had to disassemble the engines basically down to “long blocks” to get them through. I removed and updated just about everything from the engine room before reassembling. Painted all of the bilge areas beneath the ER floor, new hoses and rerouted or relocated many things to make better since. I’ll repaint the ER floor and walls after the boat has run for awhile and am comfortable that I won’t need to do major work that would ruin it.
I have reinstalled the floor section over the propulsion engine and electric come-home motor. After putting the finishing touches to the genset and forward bulkhead, I’ll reinstall the floor section over that area and take her for spin.
if you repowerded your boat , must you change your gearbox too or a adaptation is possible ?
