F 36 Convertible

prowlersfish · Post by **prowlersfish** » Thu Nov 11, 2010 7:04 pm

cclark75006 You say you found a lot with 383 and 360s ? I assume you are also looking at tri cabins ? not just the convertible model ?

Good engines but you won't find them in the conv. Unless they have been replace but I never seen that size used in the conv when repowered

Stripermann2 · Post by **Stripermann2** » Thu Nov 11, 2010 7:11 pm

The 360, which is a small block, was offered in the F32. Haven't seen one in an F36...yet.

I don't think any 383 was offered in a package. Just the 318, 360 and 440.

prowlersfish · Post by **prowlersfish** » Thu Nov 11, 2010 7:16 pm

The 383 and 400 where used in marine use , just not that comon seen both in a tricabin

LandVF36 · Post by **LandVF36** » Thu Nov 11, 2010 7:46 pm

Stuck on the upper Mississippi with mine, not going to find any "blue water". Big swells here are 2'-4' in sections where the river is 2 mi wide. On those days, I do enjoy running through it when all the other river type boats can't play in rougher water

It seems like the worst thing is fighting soft decks in our older trojans. It can be fixed, but its labor intensive. Other than that, the are solid tanks at 10 tons.

I have 454s. I burn about 5 g/hr at 10mph and get about 1.9 mpg doing so. I burn just about 50 g/hr at WOT at see 32.7 mph on the GPS. Its configured with 1.92:1 gears and has 3 blade 20x22 wheels (at least that is what is stamped on them). As Paul stated, its important to find a boat who's engines have been maintained. I got lucky when I found ours several years ago, both engines had been rebuilt, installed and had < 10 hours on them.

Good luck with your search...

rossjo · Post by **rossjo** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 7:25 am

Larry (PlanSea) has 383's in his F36 - they've been bored to 400 ... when he bought it they were advertised as 440's but turns out they weren't. (His boat is docked at the mouth of our "creek", so I see it a lot since he bought it about a year ago).

Larry would also LOVE o share his experiences with getting his cooling problems fixed. It seems that the water pump does double duty as both the Seawater pump AND the Coolant Pump. Both pumps are on the same shaft, and simply separated form each other with a seal. When he (or the prior owner) but a radiator cap with higher pressure on it, the coolant water was pushed through the seal to the raw-water side and pumped out. Larry was constantly running his closed cooling system low/dry, yet had no leaks. He was going crazy and then discovered this oddity. I'm sure he'll be happy to explain it in more details, but this is good to know about (and how would you find THAT problem?).

rbcool · Post by **rbcool** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 7:46 am

rossjo wrote:Larry (PlanSea) has 383's in his F36 - they've been bored to 400 ... when he bought it they were advertised as 440's but turns out they weren't. (His boat is docked at the mouth of our "creek", so I see it a lot since he bought it about a year ago).

Larry would also LOVE o share his experiences with getting his cooling problems fixed. It seems that the water pump does double duty as both the Seawater pump AND the Coolant Pump. Both pumps are on the same shaft, and simply separated form each other with a seal. When he (or the prior owner) but a radiator cap with higher pressure on it, the coolant water was pushed through the seal to the raw-water side and pumped out. Larry was constantly running his closed cooling system low/dry, yet had no leaks. He was going crazy and then discovered this oddity. I'm sure he'll be happy to explain it in more details, but this is good to know about (and how would you find THAT problem?).

WOW!!! I thought I'd seen it all in older boats.
I guess I would have maybe noticed the weird configuration of hoses coming from the pump. Who's the manufacturer of the engine?

gjrylands · Post by **gjrylands** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 10:03 am

I've got the Chrysler 440's in my boat. If your going with gas engines the F 36 needs big block engines to run the boat the way the designers intended.