This was a better spot to get to the pictures. We got all the boxes made, and then welded on the two 1/2 inch bolts that stick up to grab the supports. These are the bigger barry supports for the C series engine, I use them because they have shore 45 rubber which is softer than the shore 65 rubber that is used on the smaller B series barry mounts. Tomorrow we are going to use the giant hoist at the shop to lower the engine in to where it needs to go, and then we through bolt these onto the stringers with everything in place. After we get the holes done, and everything bolted up and it looks good, we’ll pull these back off and put them down a second time with a good mix of resin and cabosil. here’s the almost finished bases:
And then some of you are going to notice that the bases are wider than the wood stringers that are in the boat. That is intentional, because the front supports on the cummins work better if they aren’t as far apart as the rear supports (we are mounting on the bell housing on the back so we can pull the transmission without re aligning the motor, it makes damper and tranny problems less of a problem
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So what we do is place another piece of the cool purple heart iron wood on either side of the original stringers to make them wider. This will make more sense when we do it, all the wood gets glassed in before we finish and everything metal gets painted and I’m thinking about hooking up the main bases to the rear zinc, but haven’t decided on that yet. Here’s the wood that we use to make the stringers wider where we are putting these bases
And here is a quick shot of the stringers to see where these go.
The advantage of this is I can put the motor exactly where I want without too much drawing and paperwork. I just put the motor where it goes and through bolt the boxes and that’s where the motor stays. Might put the motor in tomorrow, and if not it’ll be in by the end of the week. After everything is mounted, I’m still going to wait on the final install of the engine until the tower is built, so I’m just going to be leaving the bases.