wstultz

My poor man's shorties.After days of sanding old paint off and polishing and straightening the skegs on my lowers, I decided to just cheat and paint them silver. I have a new respect for anyone who has polished a lower unit. Damn it's a lot of work! Looks good with the colors though and, who knows, maybe next year I can actually afford some real shorties.

T-RAV

Looks great!! Love the simplicity of the color scheme.

TOASTY

Great to see. Very Very nice!

scarab63

You may want to just wire wheel the lowers to bare aluminum if the silver doesn't hold up, which I don't see any reason it wouldn't....
Polished lowers scrub speed vs slightly rough lowers due to sticktion < new word

There is a thread on here discussing that & it makes sense.

Boat looks sweet.
MD

wstultz

I did have all the paint off of them and I started polishing on them. The skegs were very pitted so I decided to go ahead and paint so I could use some high fill primer to smooth out the pits. They looked sweet all aluminum but as you got down to the skegs they looked pretty bad. I did heat up the lowers with a torch though and straightened out the slight twists and defects that they all have. Hopefully that will help a little.

tomtbone1993

just don't loose my number when you already to splash her...

Unlimited jd

been there done that! who says you can't heat and bend aluminum! lol

wstultz

As long as you use a braising tip and heat it slowly you are okay. Over heat it or under heat it and you are going to be welding on a new skeg.

joew.

First class Job Wade! I am a cash buyer @ 20k

DonziChris

Beautiful Wade, Just plain Beautiful.

Thanks again for the steering wheel cap.

Take care. Chris