All good points Woo. Time is not something on my side at present. I am still finishing the trailer off(nearly there) so I can get the boat on and get the motor removed. I am only home every 3 weeks so I need to work around that when I am trying to sell also.
I am making up a stand to fit the old motor on and will be able to run on the stand all together. The new owner can have the stand with it. I want to get the drive soda blasted to remove the anti foul off also. I will also have Jim do a complete mechanical report (compression test etc) on the motor. There are a couple of jobs I want to do on it also so the new owner can just install.
Agree having in bits won't look the best so it will be assembled in a stand running. Agree that it may take sometime to sell another reason for the stand so I can run it up.