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What engines?

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Rawleigh, You can install gear and throttle levers around the rear deck area instead. You don't need a steering wheel for mooring. You can add an anchor up and down control also, to make it perfect. Be careful where you place controls in the rear deck area. When I was working on the environmental s...

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Tony, I still have the shop manuals. They have been invaluable to me. For points-type ignition, the shop manual says that the wire which feeds the positive side of the coil should have a resistance of 1.8 to 2 ohms. The manual does not give a resistance spec for the Thunderbolt Ignition, but the wir...

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If there is a ballast resistor in your ignition circuit, you should see significantly less than 12 volts at the coil. Check it with the engine running since some ignition systems have a relay which bypasses the ballast resistor to give the coil a full 12 volts for starting.

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I struggled with this issue for most of the first three summers I owned my boat. My port engine had a Prestolite distributor and took an unballasted coil. The starboard engine had a Mallory and took a ballasted coil. Both distributors had electronic ignition conversion kits. I believe that I used a ...

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Not NPT?

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I'm thinking replacing the drain plugs on my 454s with hose bibs to make it easier to drain the coolant. What is the thread size?

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In 1978 we bought a 12 year old Oday Mariner, 19' sailboat, to use on The Great South Bay. My son was a year-and-a-half old and my daughter wasn't born yet. As they were growing up, we used the boat to take them across the bay to the beach, usually twice every weekend from June to September. Now we ...

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I am not certain that the gas struts will do what you think they will do. I have gas struts on the Bilco Doors for my basement entrance and the doors require considerably more effort to open than the old ones which just used a mechanical latch to hold them open. YMMV.

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Advice. Keyboard has a mind of its own.

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Merry Christmas and best wishes for a Happy New Year.

Thanks to everyone on this list who has given me advice encouragement over the past six years.

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I got my oversized rudders from Bobby Soles propeller. The swivel sockets and tiller arms are standard parts from the Buck Algonquin catalog. I had a local propeller shop make a tie bar for me.

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, heating frankfurters on the engine manifold. I'd say Hot dogs, but they never got beyond warmish. In the 50's Popular Science Magazine did an article, with detailed recipes and suggested cooking times/driving distances, about cooking on a car engine. This is the first time I have heard of anyone ...

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Great news!!!

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Carl wrote: ↑Nov 2nd, '23, 06:58 Wow!

Peter, I'd imagine that is a double-edged sword, tough being so far but so proud she followed her path.

We are. She’s an equity partner at KPMG.

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Oops, I read that too fast Peter, for a second I thought you took a quick trip with the boat to Helsinki. How did your daughter and family come to live there? Or were you the transplant to the US? My daughter went to Finland as an exchange student for her junior year in high school. After she gradu...

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I pulled Water-Lou out a week and a half ago, just before a short trip to visit my daughter and her family in Helsinki. Temperatures here the previous week were in the high sixties and low seventies. I didn't put quite as many hours on her as in the previous five seasons. However, this was the first...

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Thanks for all of your advice and suggestions. I understand that the inflatables are more practical as a tender, but I just didn’t like the way they looked. The lines on the Walker go nicely with a 31, looks like they belong together. Something like what Bruce has suggested sounds like it might work...

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It was a rainy day, I had both boats out of the water, and Francey was in Helsinki visiting my daughter and her children so I had a bit of time. I found a used molded polypropylene dinghy, a Walker Bay 8, on Facebook Marketplace. My idea is to use it when I go over to Fire Island so that I don't hav...

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Fuel filter and fuel pump (mechanical) are both mounted on the engine. I don’t believe there is any danger of fuel leakage because that line is not under pressure. Also I have antisiphon fittings at the fuel tank.

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My experience agrees with the comments above. My boat easily planes at 15 knots. My trim tabs are stuck at what I assume to be neutral position.

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Looks great!!

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What kind of fuel line am I supposed to use to connect the fuel filter to the fuel pump? Can I use a flexible house with appropriate fittings in this location? If it makes a difference my engines are 454s with log manifolds and mechanical fuel pumps. My boat came to me with solid lines in this posit...

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I used Azek for the floor panels and steps between my engine boxes. I braced them on the undersides with fiberglass angle iron to minimize flexing.

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Your rudderless are supposed to have a slight toe-in or toe-out. If your boat steers properly leave them alone.

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Great news!!!

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From my recent experience with the leaking raw water hose, another point to check: open the engine boxes after starting the engines. I am guessing that I put about two hours on my starboard engine before I discovered the leak in the hose from the oil cooler to the heat exchanger. The only symptom wa...

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Carl, The old hose still had a label with the part number on it. The part number checked out to a radiator hose for a late 1990s Cadillac. My local auto parts shop found one for me. After I trimmed it to match the old hose it fit perfectly. Given that the old one lasted at least five years I figure ...

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I discovered a pinhole leak in the hose which goes from one of my oil coolers to the heat exchanger. This is 454 with the old-style log manifolds, in case that make a difference. The existing hose was molded with a sharp, right angle bend so that it could run up between the alternator bracket and th...

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Tony Meola wrote: ↑Jun 25th, '23, 00:32
Good luck in your engine search. It is tough finding counter rotating engines. Today that is all handled through the transmissions.

Michiganmotorz lists a counter rotating version of its replacement for the Mercruiser 260.

BTW, it’s usually the starboard engine which counter rotates.

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The first two boat canvas guys I talked to rejected the idea of using cushions. The guy who has been doing our home furniture ended up doing the work. Cushions fit so well that they only needed four 1”x4” industrial grade Velcro strips each to hold them in place.

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Following a suggestion from the guy who cleaned the mold out of my v-berth area two years ago, I asked our upholstery guy to make some cushions for the sides. The pictures below show his solution. They are removable, made with a thin layer of marine foam, covered with vinyl, and attached to the side...

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Interesting video. Thanks for posting.

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Any ideas what this fitting was for. It is located on the port side, aft of the rudder shelves. The scoop on the outside of the hull, shown in the second link, faces aft. https://www.flickr.com/photos/75758245@N00/52837619637/in/dateposted-public/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/75758245@N00/528382023...

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I replaced my Great South Bay strainers with a pair of Buck Algonquin strainers with removable screens. The yard put my boat in on Wednesday. Based on a 30 minute run from the yard to my slip, it looks like the overheating problem has been solved. Over the winter I also had the yard bead-blast 40+ y...

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When I pulled my coupling, I used a flange puller from Buck Algonquin to apply pulling pressure on the coupler. That allowed me to hit the coupler with a hammer without risking damage to the transmission.

I was able to drill out the two frozen set screws with a left-handed cobalt steel drill.

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Amazing!!!. I remember being fascinated by this canal when we studied it in Geography class.

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One of my neighbors at the marina suggested putting removable cushions along the sides of the hull in the V-berth. My upholstery guy took some measurements last summer and is working on them. He plans to use Velcro strips to keep the cushions in place. I will let you know how the idea worked out whe...

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Has anyone here installed one of these systems I read the installation instructions for the unit from Fell Marine and they say that it is supposed to interface to your engine cutoff switch. With my gasoline engines it looks like I would need some sort of relay in series with my upper and lower ignit...

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When I removed my strainers, I found these scoops underneath.

http://www.ipernity.com/doc/307687/51674376

Do these serve any purpose I install an external strainer like the one shown below?

https://www.generalpropeller.com/00RSS1000P

Thanks,

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Here is what the inside of my starboard strainer looks like. My port side strainer wasn't quite as bad.

http://www.ipernity.com/doc/307687/51669832

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After finding tracking down my overheating problem to a clogged strainer, I plan to replace my external strainers with something that I can clean out more easily. Any thoughts on sizing of the Groco APHS strainers? My through-hulls are 1 1/4" but my current strainers 13" x 6 1/2" which is roughly th...

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I’m thinking of replacing these strainers with one like the Groco ASC-1250 which has an access door so that I can clean it out.

Any thoughts?

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I had her hauled for the session last Friday. When they washed the bottom they scraped a lot of barnacles off of the strainers. From the looking at the barnacle scars on them I don’t think backwashing would have cleared them. I plan to remove them to clean out whatever is behind them. Depending on w...

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I have two of them, one with a sharp bend in the hook and one with a right angle bend. I used both of them.

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The caps on my Groco strainers are so close to the water line that you can’t get much of an idea of the water flow through the sea cock. The hose from the sea cock to the strainer is very short and it took me about an hour to get both ends loose from the barbs. This, the reason that this was the las...

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The caps on my Groco strainers are so close to the water line that you can’t get much of an idea of the water flow through the sea cock. The hose from the sea cock to the strainer is very short and it took me about an hour to get both ends loose from the barbs. This, the reason that this was the las...

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Thanks for all of your suggestions.

I pulled the hose off of the sea cock and the flow is definitely restricted so I must have a blocked external strainer.

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I took my raw water pump out again (Jabsco 43210) and replaced the cam, wear plate, and impeller. The old impeller showed no signs of wear or missing pieces. I also took out the transmission oil cooler and flushed it out with fresh water. Holding it up to the light I could not see anything blocking ...

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I pulled the raw water pump for the second time and replaced the impeller with the official Jabsco part. I had been using an impeller from a Mercruiser plastic-bodied pump which looks like it is about the same size as the Jabsco. It turns out, however that the Jabsco part has 10 blades where the Mer...

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