Wish you kept making videos. Looks like a cool build.

Man i wish i thought of this when i put my beams up. Mine were bigger though. Would have had to put one side at a time.

Do you ever worry about c02 in the cabin thanks

A little sketchy..I would have secured it along the posts so it raises up against them, and then can just move right on top once its up there. Can't swing around. btw, winches are not locked, so they can unwind, vertical hoist winches have locking. You can use a chain hoist instead. Just saying, I've used winches to raise things too, so do as I say, not as I do... lol

Good job, thanks

Check thermostat, impeller and last thing is the water pump on front of engine..

You are a god, the only video that helped me with my issue, thank you so much. Down to earth common sense.

Good job bro..

great idea

update seven years later....they are now $299. there are many similar ones on the market at the same price. don't know if the quality various. .... i doubt it. BTW, about the BTUs.... there are two BTU metrics out there now. at one time in the past, life was simple and there was only one. and it was simply called a BTU (British Thermal Unit). but now we have two: the old BTU, sometimes referred to as a "BTU DOW SACC" and the newer metric referred to as ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) which is a BTU per hour metric. usually, the ASHRAE rating is higher than the BTU rating. the 5000 BTU or 8000 ASHRAE unit i bought will satisfactorily cool the cabin on my 38'' sailboat in 100F temps. and yes, they are as easy to install and operate as demonstrated here, and amperage required is little enough such that i can run my 110v mini-fridge along with the AC and not blow a fuse. whether i can use my coffee maker and my toaster too RTBS (Remains To Be Seen).

Cool setup. I was wondering would a honda 2200 generator be enough to run that A/C unit? Have you tried it with a generator?

Great job

Does your boat throw an "ungrounded" alarm when using the generator?

They say if you put the boat in gear to lock the shaft before dropping the lower stern drive makes it easier to reassemble

I hate to burst your bubble Brugh but for $6 US you could have bought a 15-30amp adapter at Walmart. Nice try anyway.

*Solid, **Fastly.Cool** and gets the job done. For rooms where window-mounted air conditioning is not an option, this works very well. Easy set up, rapid cooling, and great design.*

Awesome

Thank you 😁

Im not sure if you noticed but the seal around the shift shaft in the lower unit looks cracked at the front edge. Might be where water could get into your lower drive. You can replace the whole piece to the newer version for about $25.

What about where the hull sits on the trailer bunks? Doesn't the Star Brite soak into the carpet of the trailer bunks and then sit there an eat away at the Gel Coat where the rinse water couldn't reach it?

Gotta respect a man who is a diy-er and not afraid to build. Hat's off to coming up with solutions--that is the American way.

Please tell me what you did with that pin. We found the same thing when we pulled the lower unit, and are not able to reattach because we don’t know where that pin goes

Not good to run it with low water flow. You can warp the head with too much heat.

Get a big bottle of zep calcium lime rust remover. It’s a acid and takes it off. 10 bucks at menards for a gallon

BIG thanks for this info.

Hey man I have cuestion..I have one boat with omc cobra 5.0 inboard engine and I did turn on like 2 days ago and the temperature goes up to 180 I don't know if that's normal or I have to fixing something

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I would stick with mercruiser quicksilver parts. I heard some people talk about their bellows splitting after a year or two with the cheap no-name brands.

The piece you found is just a guide for the impeler housing last person must have left it by mistake.

You never want to start the engine without a good water supplies to the lower unit pump your impeller looks to have ran dry damaging the rubber impeller and also burns the flapper backwash protector off that pin you found ! Good luck 👍🇺🇸

Check your exhaust flappers I think that bar is part of that

Penzoil crappy oil ,,,,,, jhon force castrol.....

Dangit bobby I told you boy

Thank you, sir, for posting a video that supposedly wasn’t going to have details. Lol. The details you did include taught me a lot about outdrives. My speedo doesn’t work and now I think I know why. I am tackling these projects on my new-to-me motor boat this weekend. Did you go with oem parts?Thank you to the other boaters’ replies too. I learned a lot here. Fair winds & calm waters! (Yah I am a sailor now in a motor boat.)

An overheating problem can be many things, if you fixed the problem by replacing the impeller then your lucky. That pin you found that held the flapper in the exhaust manifold tells me the flappers that keep water from back flushing into the manifold are worn or burn out. I can hear the pieces of broken flapper inside the manifold of my boat. When they overheat those flappers bust apart. I've replaced the impeller on my mercruiser as well as the pump housing. The shaft seal on the housing was won out badly. At an idle the temp gauge doesn't even move, however when I get back out on the lake I will be lucky if the overheating problem has went away.

That pin is for the exhaust flapper.

what was the little peice you found for?

One of the big problems with these is the cheap uninsulated hose. If you will wrap the hot exhaust hose with insulation, you will cool easier and faster in a house or boat!

heck if you are worried about water dripping put it on the shower floor with the drain in it

Dude. Great job giving excellent details for us shade tree mechanics. Let us know how the Penzoil out drive lube lasts.

Shouldn't the thermostat in the engine keep the temp at say 180F. I suspect your thermostat is stuck open... Cool video tho!

That was hard to watch!!! Here goes...buy female 30 amp plug...cut off female plug on extention cord and put on 30 amp plug...or just buy a 15 to 30 amp adapter.

Thanks Buddy, I enjoyed your video very helpful to me on my first Alpha Gen one out/drive

You have to empty the resevoir at the bottom of the unit. I bet it works great.

my engine overheat then was fine rest of day. i went thru weeds but did not see weeds on prop when i stopped to check the prop for weeds. wdyt?

My water pump looked like yours fins staying bent from age but rubber looking good like yours. I don't see anybody on KZbin checking water pressure and flow up at the thermostat housing of all the houses going to that it is the one on the passenger side front, so to check to see if you have a water pump issue pull that hose off and look to see if is pumping volume and pressure?? on mine i flipped the water pump upside down and forced the fins in the clockwise direction like they have to be with needle nose pliers and it now works better than new, but i have other problems there is restriction in the water flow somewhere due to rust blockage, i even took off the water pump hose and tried to blast it clean with water pressure from the city water pressure hose and no luck yet. One more small thing that speedo plastic hookup that is fraggle just put in a brass threaded niple from the hardware store.

Thanks for this video. So clear on your issue and how you fixed it. I have exactly the same problem, and now will go after the impeller. Thanks again! 🇨🇦👍🏼 Subscribed for more.

That rod belongs to your water shutter in your exhaust. IT IS IMPORTANT! The rubber degraded and the rod is all that was left. You have a v-8? 2 shutters. They're on the top of your y-pipe under the 4" dia hoses Shutters prevent water from coming in your engine cylinders when you come off a plane the wave doesnt shove into your engine.

boats are a lot of work. Fun though. Good video!

I think there's 6 zerk grease fittings mine does on my 87 Larson