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    Carlings and trim

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    Carlings and trim: Second lamination

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    Chris-Craft 283 rebuild: Assembly begins

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    Chris-Craft 283 rebuild: Water pump bead blasted

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    Chris-Craft 283 rebuild: Frost plug holes were scuffed to bare metal

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    Chris-Craft 283 rebuild: Exhaust manifolds and other painted parts were chemically stripped and sandblasted

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    Chris-Craft 283 rebuild: Parts were primed with DuPont 2580CR DTM urethane primer

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    Chris-Craft 283 rebuild: Rebuilt heads

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    Deck: Normally the deck fiberglass would overlap the deck-sheer junction with a two or three inc

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    Carlings and trim: Second corner lamination at Frame # 4 clamped

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    Carlings and trim: Second lamination at port gunwale clamped

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    Chris-Craft 283 rebuild: Installing the piston with a piston ring compressor

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    Carlings and trim: First lamination at center Frame # 4 clamped

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    Chris-Craft 283 rebuild: Cut and place a strip of plastigauge on a main bearing cap

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    Carlings and trim: First lamination at Port gunwale clamped

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    Carlings and trim: We've been working away at the boat over the winter but haven't had much to show so far

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    Chris-Craft 283 rebuild: Pressure washing the engine block

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    Chris-Craft 283 rebuild: Back from the machine shop

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    Chris-Craft 283 rebuild: Prepping the block for paint

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    Chris-Craft 283 rebuild: Block primed with DuPont 2580CR urethane primer

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    Chris-Craft 283 rebuild: Industrial duty paint stripper was used to strip several coats of paint from the transmiss

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    Gantry: We designed and built a portable gantry to move the boat from its cradle to the trailer

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    Chris-Craft 283 rebuild: Lately, a hot topic on Glen-L's Boatbuilder Forum has been automotive engine conversion fo

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    Chris-Craft 283 rebuild: First step was to drain the engine oil and remove the transmission

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    Seats: We could have built the passenger seat base supports from plywood, but aluminun will last

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    Seats: Front corners were radiused and the top edges were rounded-over before applying the first

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    Seats: 1/4" diameter holes were drilled through the 7 layers of plywood to retain the aluminum se

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    Seats: Two coats of Nason Clear applied with an HVLP spray gun finish up the driver's seat

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    Seats: At the bottom of the photo, we see the passenger side seat base after routing for webbing

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    Seats: The second layer was built up from 4 laminations of 1/4" marine grade plywood