Well................
I was talked into purchasing an 82 Galaxie I/O. It was on the side of the road with a sign that read: "$800 OBO."
The boat belonged to some guy's son, and he(the father) was tired of it being in his backyard.
(apparently his kid bought some bigger, much slower, boat that he wanted to keep)
Anywho, he told us it would turn over but not start, and that it probably had a blown head gasket - water in the oil.
After finally getting some free time to tinker with it, we got it fired up!
Drained the oil, started it up and ran good oil through it until we got clean oil coming out the pan.
Although we could only start it once or twice for 30-40 seconds at a time every half hour, as we had no water hook-ups.
After getting the "gunk" out we decided to hook some water up to it and run it for a few minutes.
It ran great, but now we have water in the pan again, so we gotta pull it apart to see if we bought a motor with cracked heads
(instead of blown gaskets)
So, considering all things, we aren't in bad shape. The hull in in decent shape, but we really just wanted the tandem-axle trailer for our jet boat and the hull for another project
(making the $600 purchase worthwhile - we didnt' expect much from that motor)
Oh yeah we also discovered the bucket seats are fibreglass, which will save us money when re-doing the interior of ht other boat!
But, since it runs we may as well use it while we can.
This is an 82 V-6 that says USE LEADED or LOW-LEAD FUEL ONLY.
The fuel in the tanks was bad, so we had to use regular fuel from a can(And some starter fluid) just to fire it up.
The motor and out-drive BOTH have trim, so any hints/tips on when/why you woudl want to trimm the motor would be much appreciated.