A fellow boating buddy has a rig to remove and install motors and offers to help me out. So, I tow the boat to his place with the new motor in the back of my SUV.
We unhook all the accessories on the motor and we're ready to pull it out of the boat. We pull the engine out and instead of the engine coming off the mounts... the mounts come off with the motor! Initially, we had to double check to make sure we unbolted the motor, and we had.
The reason this happened as it turns out was that the wood blocks under the fiberglass which mounts bolt to had rotted over time and basically deteriorated. So the weight of the engine was the only thing holding down the motor! This is not something you could have easily observed with the motor installed but very evident with the motor removed and you could see the rust on the motor mount bolts as well!
The effectively stopped the engine swap and with my wife 5 months pregnant we missed Memorial Weekend which was our planned big debut of the "new" boat.
The project boat in question...
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