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Use metal like 1/4 aluminum if possible. Those cleats will have a lot of tension appliled during a wind storm.

Dick

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Couldn't find it and this one was at the top of the index. I kept seeing all the 2010 dates. But the effect is the same so we can all chip in. Maybe the other thread will show up.

Skipper Dick

You couldn't google enough to find all the help, tips and information you can get from this site. Thanks Capt.

I'm in.

Dick

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I'll bet she is better now than when she was new. Good job. You are an inpsiration to any one looking at a major refitting or repair.

Dick

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Walter K It's great that you and the rest are alright and the boats fared well too. The hype is always there and if nothing else, it made everyone more responsive to the storm and most prepared well for it. We are just thankful that the hype didn't come totally true and we should not let our guard d...

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Peter, During Charlie in 2004, I ran my 5500 watt Porter Cable and kept a freezer/refrigerator, a freezer in the garage, my little beer fridge, two fans and some lights going for two weeks. When some of the tv stations came back on line, I just shut down some lights and one of the fans to watch some...

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JR, I have that very same arrangement and used a Rule 12V General Purpose Centrifugal Pump mounted in the aft bilge on my rudder shelf support pulling water from a thru hull and shutoff in the bottom. I've got it pumping to a faucet and I can either put my livewell on deck and attached a hose from t...

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Hey Cap'n,

Just telling it like it is. I like it.

Dick

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Ted_R,

Once I got the tank loose and was sure there wre no more fumes to explode, I used a sawzall to cut it up. I used copius amounts of hot water and dqwn to flush out the tank before doing anything.

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Ted_R I used the hole from the siphon tube and took a 6 foot chain with a steel hook on it and hooked it down into the hole, then attached the other end to my lift and lifted until the boat was about to come off the water. I left it there for an hour and eventually, it broke loose. Then since I was ...

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Taggteam, It's not a real big job. I rebuilt both bulkheads in a day. It was a long day and I used 3/4 inch starboard. If I had it to do over again, I would use a good grade of 1/2 inch plywood and once it was cut and sized, I would coat it generously with diluted epoxy so it would penetrate, then I...

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The bad news is that it is attached to a bill that no one likes, so the likely hood of it making it through attached to it is not looking too good. I needs to be a stand alone bill if it is ever going to go anywhere.

Dick

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Cliff,

I've got enough room to change the props, but the rudder has to be removed to remove the shaft and I've only had to do that once after I hit a sand bar and tweeked the rop and shaft.

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Kevin,

That's the best one I've ever used.

Dick

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I had the same thing happen to my starboard Mercruiser Horizon 350. It was blowing black smoke and the exhaust water was dirty. It turned out to be a small pencil eraser sized filter located under the fuel pressure regulator on the fuel cooler. It was clogged and pushed the fuel pressure in the rail...

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Wouldn't you have to change the oil afterwards?

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My old bulkheads were 3/4 and rotted badly. Mine is a 1983 and there was a close tolerance between the engine hatches and the bulkhead. So the 1/2 plywood and the two laminamts would have equalled the 3/4 inch. I kick my self frequently for not going that route, but for now the Starboard is doing th...

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RAWickland, I used 3/4 Starboard for my bulkheads. I'd like to go back and start over again, but this time use 1/2 plywood and once all the cutouts and the shaping is done, drench it in diluted epoxy. then I would laminate with epoxy 1/8th inch formica on both sides. I still might do that someday. I...

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Gary, A friend of mine replaced his fiberglass tank last winter with an aluminum tank made locally here. His 454 engines were running poorly, so after the tank change and with fresh fuel, he added Sea Foam to the tank and he claims that after two aplications, his engines are now running fine. As far...

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I use stainless and then wipe them down with grease because they pick up rust from the pulleys. I try to wipe them off periodically, but some times they just need a good scrubbing. But still, if I run into a burr, I start looking at replacing them. the stern ones seem to go the fastest because that'...

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Earnest I have a 28 on a lift and I change the cables when ever I find more than 3 burrs in a 3 foot length. these cables are rated at 9,000 pounds a piece, but when they start showing rust or having burrs up and down them, it is time to change them. I guss it takes about 4 years of life span and th...

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My wife and I just recently returned from a 7 day Eastern Caribbean cruise on a Holland America ship called the Westerdam. It is over 900 feet long and most of the outer decks, the promenade deck and the top deck were teak. They had maintenance people working on this boat 24/7. One day at sea, I wat...

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Hell, I thought the Turtle was real at first. Good work and now you can say no one else around here has anything like it.

Dick

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Truly amaizing art work. One can't drink a lot of coffee doing that kind of work.

Dick

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UV,

You certianly are feeling better. That's a good one I won't forget.

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I'll tell you one that I was lucky to find. I was running both engines one day not long ago when my port engine started running rough then quit. Then the starboard engine did the same thing. I pulled both water separators and they were half full of air. So I put a vacume on the lines one at a time f...

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Capt. Frank,

I wondered about those round things too, but then it dawned on me that they were probably little round backing plates for the external strainer and the screws that came through were used for bonding the strainers.

That's my theory.

Dick

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Here is another new story. Every bit of disention toward this stuff is helpful in getting rid of it. Bipartisan group of senators calls for ethanol subsidies to expire By Greg Sargent In a clear sign of momentum against ethanol subsidies, a bipartisan group of more than a dozen senators has signed o...

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Pete, I should be able to get most of it re-insalled tomorrow and the next day after waiting for the backing plate epoxy to cure. I'm waiting on the bronze bolts to arrive today, but every thing else is ready. It amaizes me that all the local marine shops that sell thru hulls and stopcock flanges do...

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I found a simple way to make fiberglass backing plates using a heavy plastic, flat bottomed bowl with a slight outward bevel. I waxed the bowl with carnuba wax and then mixed enough resin and milled fiberglass until it was about the consistancy of mayonaise and spooned it in the bowl. The bowl measu...

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how important is it to use the flanged valves? and are the original scoops good enough or do you need the new style groco ones if you remove the big strainger? I decided to use the flanged seacocks to meet the current ABYC safety standard for a seacock installation and I want to eliminate the scoop...

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I'm finally getting around to replacing my raw water intake system. It currently consists of two 1 1/4 inch thru hull scoops to gate valves then through Perko 493/500 strainers then to the Mercruiser Horizon 300 hp engines. Besides being ugly and taking up too much room, the gate valves are inoperat...

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Ethanol Could Go on GOP Chopping BlockTop Michigan Republican has 'unique opportunity' to 'kill' subsidiesBy Jarrett Skorup | Nov. 11, 2010 When the Republican majority is seated in the House of Representatives this January, many have high expectations that they will cut government spending as many ...

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I was going to buy a Uniflite boat with my combat pay on my way back from Vietnam. My uncle knew one of the board members and he took us out to the yard where we stood behind a 1/4 inch steel plate and he fired a 45 point blank at the hull on a 26 footer I liked. It left a little lead stain and that...

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Preston, Two years ago, I refinished the non-skid on my forward deck and the bow area. I used Griptex and gelcoat. I mixed it according to the instructions as a test and ended up adding a little more for the final mix. I used a roller with a short knap and it turned out perfect and after two years o...

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Chanse, When I removed the 190 gallon tank from my 28, I backed up under my lift and put a chain with a hook in the siphon tube hole and lifted the tank out. It took a few minutes for the up pressure to pull the tank up from it's seated position, but it worked. Then I took a sawzall and cut it up so...

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It seems that this administration is totally deaf. They won't listen to anyone at all. So here we go again. "The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to approve higher concentrations of ethanol for newer vehicles, raising the maximum blend of the corn-based fuel with gasoline from 10 percent ...

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I have an 83 and I had to change my tank. I put in a fibergalss made with vinylester. The only thing I'm not happy with is that the siphon tube was hastily brazed and they put some sort of goo on the weld to keep it from sucking air. It worked for a while, but then I pulled the tube and discovered t...

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My book says Milspec 5606

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Bertramp,

I had to change the hatch slides on both my hatches with that model and the holes matched perfectly. It is the same as the one put on many years ago.

Dick

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Just like the one pictured, ecxcept mine needs a good paint job.

Dick

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Bill, I have a lift just like the one you pictured. I made some adjustments to the bunks that the boat sat on and I mistakenly allowed the centerline to rest on the rear horizontal I beam. Just the wind moving the lift back and forth allowed the I beam to start wearing a hole through the gel coat on...

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Scot,

Yes the confidence level is down. If it was just a little clicking noise, I would just shrug it off as a trait of this transmission, but people on the seawall can hear the noise as I motor by. I'm hoping that it may just be the damper.

Dick

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Bill, I wouldn't be concerned at all if it was just a knock at idle in nuetral and it would stop once the RPM was advanced a little. And now that I've got that port engine purring and the ecm has it idling at near 650, it hardly makes a noise at all until I put it in gear. So thanks guys for all you...

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Bruce,

Thanks, I'm checking for a removable rubber cover ASAP. I've never seen one, but I could have missed it. After that, I'm pulling it and through guessing. I want it right and that is my goal.

Dick

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Frank, It had a typical knock if the RPM fell below 600. I did have a problem with that port engine running rich for a while, but a good dose of SeaFoam down the air intake of the Merc Horizon and some in the tank took care of that, but the big difference occurred when I ran into shallow water at 21...

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I've finally concluded my port transmission is making way too much noise. It could have been that sand bar I ran onto while shooting the breeze with a friend sitting on the bridge with me and not paying attention to the markers. Who knows, but one of my local ZF dealers tells me that the unit can't ...

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This is my fuel set up.

Dick

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It looks like bee's wax or the same material a toilet bowl gasket is made of. I think that stuff would stick to anything.

Dick

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Craig,

I had the very same thing happen to me when I put in a new tank. I finally got it right after about three tries. Now it matches my digital fuel gauge on my Navman flow sytem.

Dick

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