gutley
11-28-2013, 12:44 AM
Hi all;
Let's me start off by saying that I've already started working on my boat project due to rotten stringers.. Bummer that I had to find out hard way after buying it and taking it out first time... Then I find out that the bolts holding the engine bracket to stringer was easily unscrewed out with my fingers. Water coming out as I pressed my finger into bolt holes... One thing after another.. I end up having to replace all stringers.. It's my 2nd years now working on the 1985 ts6m .. Due to fact I don't have garage!! :-(
Anyhow the stringer project is almost done.. foam already been poured in some spots...
Previous owner had the boat seat, fabric, engine cover, and carpet redone. However, the quality workmanship building into woods part of seats and engine cover was crappy and speaker were cuts in different location with new panel covering original speaker hole.. In fact, some had been recut twice!!!... I guess the previous owner measure once and cut twice.
To my luck.. I saw online a bang up 1990 tournament hull, but interior look good, engine, and tranny are good. I thought I could just take the upper hull part and drop onto my 1985 ts6m hull. Even the engine look to be cleaner than mine.. My concern is that, are the body interchangeable? Is tournament based on ts6m body? All I can figured out is that 1990 tournament is 1" wider and have fiberglass hull while the 1985 ts6m have shorter width and kelver /fiberglass hull. I could also use the dashboard and gauges from it as well. I'd figure it'd be cheaper to buy whole then the sum of it parts. I can always sell the rest once I'm done and decide I can part with it.
Let's me start off by saying that I've already started working on my boat project due to rotten stringers.. Bummer that I had to find out hard way after buying it and taking it out first time... Then I find out that the bolts holding the engine bracket to stringer was easily unscrewed out with my fingers. Water coming out as I pressed my finger into bolt holes... One thing after another.. I end up having to replace all stringers.. It's my 2nd years now working on the 1985 ts6m .. Due to fact I don't have garage!! :-(
Anyhow the stringer project is almost done.. foam already been poured in some spots...
Previous owner had the boat seat, fabric, engine cover, and carpet redone. However, the quality workmanship building into woods part of seats and engine cover was crappy and speaker were cuts in different location with new panel covering original speaker hole.. In fact, some had been recut twice!!!... I guess the previous owner measure once and cut twice.
To my luck.. I saw online a bang up 1990 tournament hull, but interior look good, engine, and tranny are good. I thought I could just take the upper hull part and drop onto my 1985 ts6m hull. Even the engine look to be cleaner than mine.. My concern is that, are the body interchangeable? Is tournament based on ts6m body? All I can figured out is that 1990 tournament is 1" wider and have fiberglass hull while the 1985 ts6m have shorter width and kelver /fiberglass hull. I could also use the dashboard and gauges from it as well. I'd figure it'd be cheaper to buy whole then the sum of it parts. I can always sell the rest once I'm done and decide I can part with it.