Since I'm reworking the engine mounts and radio arrangement, I figured I should show you all what I'm starting with. A quick glance should show how rough the engine mounting plates are, not to mention a few other things that need to be taken care of. Now that you have all seen what's what, on the the "disassembly"

The first step is to loosen the collet so I can put the drive cable free. Then with the removal of the throttle servo clevis, the engine is free to be removed. I'm sure some will be asking why I posted the picture of the boat's bottom. The screws holding the rubber isolators are sticking up from the bottom up to 1/8", so fixing that is definately a must.
With the engine removed, I decided to remove the stuffing tube as well. As suggested by someone else in another thread, a heat gun made that easy. What I wasn't happy about is I found that fuel that had been spilled inside the hull had attacked the Z-Poxy and turned it brown. While stripping it out of the engine bay, I found the bottom of the boat was stained brown in places but not from fuel contamination. My task now is to make new engine mounts as I wasn never happy with what I had come up with on the road, plate wise. They had the engine raised up almost 1/4" above the hull bottom, way too high in my opinion. Since I now have a Sherline mill and lathe to work with, I've decided to fabricate a pair of mounting plates with a lowered center so I can drop the engine down to around 1/16" or so above the bottom. I may also make a few minor changes to the fuel system as well, not sure about that one yet.