We did some assessment on the 1971 SeaCamper’s MerCruiser 165 engine yesterday. This is a Chevy inline 6 built in 1970. Our first mystery to solve was the hour meter on the dash, which reads 4502. I had two AI’s debating each other on whether the last...
A licensed verifier came out to the house for the trailer, then a trip to the DMV. The boat and the trailer are both in our name now, with CF numbers for the bow and a permanent plate for the trailer. Well I still hate the DMV but I’ll praise the little ol’ lady at...
The real work begins with our 1971 SeaCamper as we commence the interior demolition! Most of the old cabinets and fixtures are rotted, worn out or simply outdated so ALL of it has to come out. We start with the cabinets and fixtures, move on to the walls and finish it...
We found a copy of a SeaCamper owners manual inside ours. It’s not the actual manual that came with our ’71, it’s a photocopy of one that came from a later year model as far as we can tell. And it’s a bad photocopy along with having a bunch of...
Hauled out everything that wasn’t SeaCamper, cleaned the interior and photographed it as found. Also read the decal on the outdrive and found it’s a MerCruiser — not the OMC we’d assumed from the advertisement photos.
