Recent content by jazz177

Three years ago while our E32 jazz was hauled for a bottom job I took a close look at the shaft strut. As far as I could tell the strut was original equipment and had never had a zinc on it. Needless to say the bronze was fairly well turned to sponge. This July we hired marine service center in...

Steel engine beds I have just completed a replacement of the engine beds in our 1970 32-2 Jazz. The engine was always raw water cooled and believe me it was time for a replacement. But that is another story. I have known the engine beds would have to be replaced if I ever pulled the engine and...

I pulled the boards of Jazz a 1970 E32 spring 2007. The screws were no problem as they were all wood/sheet metal screws. The problem begins with the adhesive. I worked slowly and used thin pieces of wood as shims and a putty knife to cut the adhesive and got them of in one piece. Good luck. John

Hi all, I see the subject is fairly well covered but having gone through this whole tank, head, hose replacement thing on our E32-2 Jazz, I will put in my learnings. I was able to fit a 14 gal. tank under the portside aft end of the V berth. It took some cutting to increrase the opening but it...