Chris: Great ideas, got to remember that one about the raw water pump.
One caution about the direction of the props: if you have straight inboards that are mated to the transmission at the rear of the engine, the right hand turning prop will have the opposite rotating (CW when looking from flywheel) engine. My previous boat had the straight drive transmission mounted to the front of the engine and thus an exposed flywheel-standard engine was on the starboard side. V-drives would typically have the front of the engine facing aft My Velvet Drives will turn in either direction, but other models require a reversing gear. With all of the combinations, you really need to identify the transmission to figure things out. Frequently, it comes down to looking at the plug wires coming out of the distributor: find the #1 wire and then one engine will follow the standard firing order and the other will be reversed. As you point out, most manufacturers have the distributors turn in the same direction. By the way, my neighbor has 454 Mercruisers in his 1978 Bertram, and both have reversing straight drive transmissions-so starboard engine is standard (turns CCW) yet prop turns to starboard, while port engine is opposite rotating (CW) and prop turns to port. Cleaarly, boat manufacturers just wanted to keep you on your toes. Gene -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld?hl=en.
