bertram31.com

I'm taking care of my late buddy Alex Moore's VRMC B31 "Sandy Point". Boat is original...in the same condition as the Wicomico pictured on this thread with a couple of tired carb 454s. Wondering what the best course is to get most value out of the boat. Options I'm considering... 1) Leave it in orig...

Thanks...will pull the pumps and look for impeller parts. Anybody got a part no for the impeller...these are older non efi 454s on a 1971 boat.

possible...I'm assuming open is handle in line with hose and closed is 90 deg. Owner's wife had a buddy winterize it which involved sucking some kinda enviro friendly anitfreeze into the raw intake then closing the seacocks. Which means the raw intake hose came off and is no longer full of water. So...

I've take over maintaining my late buddy Alex Moore's 31, the Sandy Point. So I'm a newbie to 31s. When I went to start em up this spring, opened the raw water seacocks and started the motors but shut them down quickly when I saw they were not cooling. Belts and pumps all look ok, plenty of antifree...