resurrected

Absolutely reinvent a better wheel!
A wise man once told me "when it breaks, fix it faster" and he didn't mean repair it rapidly

cobra marty

Found that the International VT365 engine is a Ford 6.0L diesel with a different rear bolt pattern bell housing to a SAE 2 or 3 pattern instead of the truck trans bell housing pattern.
So both the 6.7 and the 6.0 can have a SAE bolt pattern bell housing.
The SAE bell housing is easier to mate to a BW velvet drive trans.

So does anyone have a marine SAE 2 or 3 to transmission bell housing? This would be off of a marine diesel application.

Keith Atlanta

Anybody else feeling like this thread lost some mojo? Kinda depressing. You would have had to drag me outta Betty Ford by now.... Not beatin on you but dude, I feel your pain.

Kidturbo, post some roost pics or something! May the gods of getting the boat back on the water be with you.

rak rua

No, I think it’s quietly gaining Mojo.
It’s like a great song, first verse, chorus, second verse, chorus and the third verse goes quiet before lifting on the last line to the spine chilling final Chorus. We’re in the third verse, the finale is coming.

RR
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kidturbo

Ok more pictures it is ... Call these 5 Degrees of Optical Illusions.

kidturbo

I got your roost pics right here.. One from the Top Secret stash..

kidturbo

All this custom fab work is gonna drive me to drinking... Cause once we started welding up the standoff boxes today, it sure looks like I'd been drinking.

I had a local machine shop face the top and bottom edges on the 1" plates at 15 & 10 deg respectfully. That way when we go to wrap them with the aluminum plate everything lines up nicely for the welding. Well somewhere I lost 3/8" off the front / boat side plates. First idea was just cut 3/8" off the transom assembly side plate and call it done. Then I remembered there is a O-ring gasket groove on the Mercury assemblies. Last pic, which if I remove 3/8" off its mating surface, will likely be about 1/8" from the edge when all welded and bolted up. So looks like I need to add 3/8" strip back to the boat side plate.. Then I start thinking about which way all this change moves the prop height, and decided to just go to the Sarasota Offshore block party now and start drinking. I bet the answer will come to me after a few stiff Jack and Cokes. 😂

hoodoo

Sounds like a good idea I’ll see ya down there in a few minutes

kidturbo

Yup that did it, we all good now.

kidturbo

Ok so solution to the problem was turn everything upside down and work from the top line rather than bottom edge. And rather than shave off 3/8" from transom assembly side, addes 3/8" back to the hull side. Voila, problem solved..

Things taking shape now.