If you follow this boat restore project, the lake testing is probably what you have been waiting on. Does the old Bayliner Bowrider 175 cruise off into the sunset, or does it blow up and sink. In this video we get the boat Mercruiser 3.0 liter timed and ready to hit the water, testing her …
Boat Timing And Lake Testing EP #52 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
Boat Windows Installed, Wetness Averted Video at the bottom if you’re like me and don’t like to read. We got our windows installed, who wants to get wet on a boat… LOL. This has been a year coming, we are so glad to have these off the floor and on our old Bayliner Bowrider 175. …
A little paint adds a lot of value, you can clearly see that in the photo above. The hard part is finding the right paint for your application, in the right color for your personal preference.
Now we can ski! Video at the bottom if you’re like me and don’t like to read. LOL Cutting a hole in the boat floor So we worked so hard to get the rotten floor out of our boat, and now we want to put a big hole in the middle. The original floor did have …
Making Our Floor Walkable Again Video at the bottom if you’re like me and don’t like to read. LOL We cut the plywood out of this 2004 Bayliner Bowrider 175 and went back with the same 1/4 inch wood that was there. We had a few people say we should have gone thicker, but thicker is …
Install Mercruiser 3.0 Engine Wiring Harness Video at the bottom if you’re like me and don’t like to read. LOL If you messed it you can see how we cleaned up the wiring here, or go to the entire list of boat blogs here. Yes, I’m pointing at the engine cause the wiring is in and …
Inventory Of Missing Parts For Mercruiser that the mechanic lost. This is turning out to be more challenging and expensive than we thought it would. It is like they take a part, then type marine on the front of it, then double the cost. Also, there are many flavors of this 3.0L engine to choose …
Inventory Missing Parts Mercruiser 3.0L EP #26 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
We have been having fun being busy making our 2004 Bayliner Bowrider seaworthy. We have a floor with ski locker cut in, the trailer fits in the garage, and tunes from our kicken marine stereo. Now we are going to sit back and relax as we take in what we have done to our boat, …
Boat Floor In And Radio On, Beer time! EP #22 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
Took our boat window off, getting back to work on our floor, have so much left on the Mercruiser 3.0. We have taken the window off the Bayliner Bowrider 175 and are continuing to clean. Meguiar’s is working perfectly to clean up the oxidation on the fiberglass. The floor in our boat is fitted raw …
Restoration Update, Windows Removed EP #19 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
We have installed the boat engine wiring harness on a 2004 Bayliner Bowrider 175, for the Mercruiser 3.0 liter. We may rerun this later of the manifold of the engine, kinda like how it doesn’t clutter the top of the Mercruiser engine in our boat. We still have a little more wiring to do on …
Installed Boat Engine Wiring Harness EP #18 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
