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 »
This was exciting, huge fireball out of the carburetor, took all the hair off my hand. In this video, we show how we set up our newly rebuilt 3.0 Mercruiser in our Bayliner Bowrider Boat for initial startup. If you want to know how we installed the distributor at top dead center and primped the …
Starting Boat Engine First Time EP #45 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
To go with our grey boat theme we opted to paint our custom speaker plates. I did like the wood grain but it just didn’t work with anything else in the boat. We used paint to seal the wood then added Kiwi Grip to add texture. All the materials used for this project were scrapes …
Custom Boat Speaker Plates Painted EP #42 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
Got our boat windows on and they look good, also as the boat driver I don’t want to get wet. LOL The weatherstrip we found on Amazon worked really and we have already used it for other projects beyond this like the speaker pods and Jeep projects. I loved working this project with my wife, …
Installed Our Window On The Boat EP #41 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
When we started our aluminum boat widows restore the chipping paint and corroding was bad, now they are so pretty. In this video you will see how we restored our boat windows, this would work on any metal frame window. It was a lot of work, and it is much easier to do with the …
Restoring Aluminum Boat Windows EP #40 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
After cleaning the boat seats for the gazillionth time, we tried NeverWet from Rust-Oleum on it. Hindsight we should have got the silver NeverWet from Rust-Oleum, we may try it later. We have also left a link below for where we got ours, ordering with our link helps us grow at no added cost to …
Rust-Oleum NeverWet, Will It Work? EP #39 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
We are making custom speaker plates to cover the ugly holes cut into the boat for 6x9s that were placed in a horrible location. Not only were these to remove the car 6x9s that were rusting, staining the boat gel coat. They were to install smaller speakers the would be waterproof and last for a …
Custom Boat Speaker Plates EP #29 || 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 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 »
