Marinette Boat Forum

Hi, all.
I have a 32', 1975 Marinette with twin Chrysler 318s. I fired the engines yesterday and noticed a bit of a strange noise from the port engine. I traced the issue to a leaking exhaust manifold gasket around the 2 center ports. I took things apart, and sure enough the gasket is busted. I got some Copper RTV gasket maker, and it almost did the trick. Just a very slight leak now. My question is this; where can I find parts for these old engines, and particularly a good set of exhaust manifold gaskets? My boat is docked in Baltimore, MD.

I have been very happy with Marine Parts Source recently, I have been getting some things from them, this spring below is some of my needs they had available and I did check they have your gaskets !!

Thermostats for the 440's, the big ones !! hard to find,
Anti siphon valve for the Gen. made just like OEM , It got sticky and caused it to quit running, the shuttle pumps are poor a sucking so they gotta be good.
Westerbeke parts...

Thank you! They did have them in stock!

For the record, stock AUTOMOTIVE 318 exhaust ports are gigantic compared to the marine ones, so auto gaskets will leak. You need to use early 273 cube Mopar V-8 gaskets if you can't find the marine ones.

Jeff

PS: If you can, always use the one piece (vs. three piece) gaskets or you'll go batty trying to orient the end ones correctly.