We got the boat painted, MayBe. We used Rustoleum paint to and we tell you what we think once done. The floor is the boat looks 100% better than it did with the raw wood look. This has been a long time coming for my wife, Danielle. The RustOleum paint applied quick and easy and …
Got Our Boat Painted With RustOleum EP #36 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
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 install our boat rub rail with rivets and cleaning it up. The rub rail on our boat was very weathered and hanging in some places where it had pulled loose. After getting the rust screws out that were used to fix the Boat bummer trim in places, the installation went very well. Here we …
Install Boat Rub Rail With Pop Rivets EP #24 || 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 »
We just got our Bayliner Bowrider 175 back with a freshly rebuilt Mercruiser 3.0. We are now taking inventory of what is needed to get the engine started like restoring the wiring harness, getting everything buttoned up on the engine like the distributor, timing, and the missing hardware. We sent this engine to a mechanic …
Rebuilt Mercruiser 3.0 Engine EP #16 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
The engines out, the Stern Drive off, and the engine is ready to be shipped to the machine shop Xcessive Engines for a rebuild. It should only take about 2 weeks to get the engine back, and if Xcessive Engines has engines in stock they ship out right away. I guess it being summer their …
Stern Drive Off, Engine Out, Rebuild EP #13 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
We go over why the new head didn’t work on our engine, now going to do a full rebuild on our boat engine. Keep on digging and find more things that need to be replaced or repaired on this 2004 Bayliner Bowrider 175. For this boat we would really love not to spend over $5,000, …
Boat At Shop, Our Plans After EP #14 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
Well, just killed the budget as our engine repair went from $800 when we were just replacing the head, to $2,400 to replace the long block. We lost the $800, this was money that we used buying the new head and gasket, but you live and learn. At the end of this project, we will …
Rebuild Engine, Budget Busted EP #12 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
