Carver Owners Forum

Hello new to this forum just thought I would share my experience this last summer of putting a new port side engine in my Carver 3607. We had only owned her for 2 weeks until water got into the cylinder from a rusted hole in the exhaust manifold and hydro locked the motor. I bought a long block from Promar engine and of course new exhaust manifolds, risers, and elbows for both engines. The process went very smooth, I built a custom hoist to get into the cabin and lift and roll the motor out of the hole. Also built a 3/4 plywood floor with bracing underneath to hold the wait of the big block and transmission. I bought a jegs racing engine cart to bolt the motor onto and wheeled it up the ramp to the aft deck then had it taken out from there. I attached some pictures to see how we made this happen in our slip:).

That's an excellent first time post! I'm sure it'll come in handy for someone else in the future. Thanks, and welcome aboard

Ingenious, got to archive this post for any, hopefully never, future need! It appears like 3/4" plywood, if you could, take a picture of the hoist you made. Mike PS>BRAVO!

Nice work!

Thanks guys, yes it is 3/4 plywood seemed to work well and the hoist rolled on it very nicely. Here are some pics of the hoist.. I used used 2X4 1/8" steel tubing and made the top beam bolt together to get it down in the cabin probably overbuilt a bit but it did not flex a bit with motor/tranny on it.

Nice job man......looks like someone may have a body shop or ??????......nice welding........

Thanks I work in a body shop and fortunately they let me work on my personal projects