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Anyone think the ships nav system was hacked given the pre grounding route and the sideways blockage?

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The advancement in technology comes with a price for those with intelligence enough to understand how society smoothly transitions from one thing to another. Unfortunatly green in nature has become a political dog and pony show and a taxpayer supported deep pit that keeps caving in. The majority pus...

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Pat dealt with Bertram many years ago on this issue of copyright. As long as he wasn't making money on merchandise with the Bertram logo, he was free to use the logo. The get together t shirts were sold to cover costs not as a direct source as income. Not sure how much Bertram pays attention to this...

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It becomes not our world when WE give it up to others. Of course now a days who wants to own a world full of lunatics. The more they try to make any form of racing more equal, they just make it worse. Faster is not better, but tv ratings controls how sports are played, it's become all about the benj...

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Drag link socket on a ratchet will work.

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It sounds like your using a vacuum controlled fuel pressure regulator. What's the regulator set at? Are you throttle body or mpi injection. If mpi, what lb injectors are you running? What size fuel lines are you running and are you running a return to the tank or recirculating system. Does the efi c...

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Cummins have a penchant for violent pulsation on the fuel systems but it is normal. If your fuel lines are steel braided or heavy wrapped cloth it won't allow fuel lines expand and contract to act as pulsation dampeners. I've had some luck with reducing pulsation by using red stripe rubber fuel hose...

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Very nice John.

It's amazing to see the talent from you guys who at one time would not have taken on such a task without the 31 site.

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Be careful with the increase in torque and hp that you will be able to turn the props needed.

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Use 93 fuel if you want peak performance out of the engine. Not sure how available it is in marinas. The LT and its more popular brother the LS are everywhere. The aluminum block won't be an issue with fresh water cooling on the inside, outside will be different story. Not sure if the engine company...

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Anytime I did a night trip I always carried a roll of gaffers tape in my go bag to put over lights, switches lite up and anything that glowed.
I didn't have to flip switches when running, so no need to lite them up.

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JL audio is good stuff, enclosures are important with mid to low end freq. Also amp tuning, crossover, gain controls is critical. When running blue tooth with phone, setup with phone audio all the way up, then adjust the gain with volume knob on radio. never control volume with your phone, it can ma...

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Turbo blades dragging on housing reducing boost, waste gate stuck open.

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Rick, heat and humidity will affect cure time especially if you use a fast hardner if your using epoxy. If using polyester high heat and humidity use a few drops less mekp. But we in Florida don't have a problem and its 100% humidity about 364 days a year. Make sure your tarp doesn't seal to well if...

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The LP is an overhead cam engine, 4 valve per cylinder. Overhead cam engines are real susceptible to cam breaking if it's not done right. That and the valve bridge per cylinder can be damaged too. There are a couple of special tools for assembly and adjustment of the valves and valve bridge. Buy the...

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Stall speed is pretty low on those if I remember less than 60 kias.
Makes for short landings, the fuel mileage is real good with the 260.

Congrats Mike.

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Matt, Weight distribution is important to remember. To far forward and the bow plows, to far aft and you need a lot of tab and dolphins on the OB. Cockpit is fine if your primary is fishing, otherwise cruising people like to sit in front of the house for unobstrutive view. Have you plotted how much ...

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Matt, All those things you mention will not prevent moisture absorpion in the fuel with ethanol. As long as the tank is open to the atmosphere, its going to absorb moisture with ethanol. The E85 performance engines I build have issues too runnning Holley injection. Forget running pure methanol and t...

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The bolts shouldn't have bottomed out so they are floating in the threads (except for rust). Clean broken bolt studs with carb cleaner. Take a 1/4 bolt and take 5 minute jb weld, put a dot on the end of thread and touch to broken stud, hold while sets. Let set up for 24 hours and then see if they ba...

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Actually I am checking into that. Now that the board has been upgraded, I pay for quite a bit of space and am thinking about direct picture posting to the Web domain so they remain. But the site can't be photo bombed. That's why Pat eliminated direct hosting quite a while back. People will not be ab...

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Chris, You hit it square with your comment. The value of this board has and always will be the contributors, Matt just expanded the realm a bit, but without his contribution we would have been a mess. A lot of very smart people here not only when it comes to boat repairs but when it comes to their e...

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Matt,
Once a screw is put into it, gelcoat, glass overlay wont matter moisture intrusion will start.
There are so many composites available now there's no reason to use wood.

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If its between 3 and 5 it's most likely the heat crossover. Most are blocked off at the gasket with a metal plate. Its purpose is exhaust heat under the intake to warm up intake charge quickly and to heat up the choke stove.

If that was intake port, you'd know it.
If anything it would leak exhaust.

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Matt,
Sorry I couldn't take your call, I had a class tonight.

Looks good, function is good.

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I don't think any of those names have posted in a while. Not sure if JP is JP dalik.
I'll look at old posts this weekend and see.

Many older members have faded away. I know Gary Jordan hasn't been around in quite a while.

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Steve,
If I remember your neutral start safety switches are on the trans. Check your lever connections there and make sure nothing is loose or corroded.
Get someone at the helm to move levers and make sure when the lever moves, the cable moves at same time.

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power wires are okay to run together.

Its the data or comm wires that can pick up magnetic field and interfere with the signal. Run your nav comm wires in a different place. If there is a foil shield in the power or data cables, make sure they are grounded to reduce rf signals also

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The AC thru hull most definatly needs a scoop.

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No conduit per say is required. But in rewiring a boat where I couldn't get to, to fasten the wires with clamp, I would run a chase conduit up one side. Easier to fish wires and secure at times. No solid copper. No aluminum. Tinned copper stranded is the best. If your wiring the boat to abyc standar...

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Don't use a scoop on the gen set, but make sure it's not behind anything that could cause turbulence or cavitation.

I always used an inside filter. Gen impellers are not as robust as their big brothers.

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The passport system has been designed so many times because of issues so knowing the version is helpful but Marine Airrr passport controls normally gave out fault codes as letters, not numbers like HPF or high pressure failure. Webasto AC uses numbers and the A08 code is high pressure shut down of c...

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Whether you go from one station to another, or both stations to the engines there should be no sticky.

Check for hangups where the cable goes into the guide sleeve, the controls themselves where the cables connect to the pivots.

Then down at the trans.

Bend in cables shouldn't be tight.

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John,
That is the same model engine I put in Buddy Boy.

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No.
Make sure you up grade the wire size.

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Standard for those strainers is 304 stainless.

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Besides good recipes, It makes a great coffee table book full of illustrations.

A boaters must have.

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Tony, Did a quick search for bob lico and over 10 pages came up. Not sure where your having trouble. Now when it comes to pics, people's hosting sites over the years have changed and may not be showing. Nothing was ever deleted unless it was by the poster themselves. Pat did have a web failure way b...

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All, my name is JR Moro. I have a 1969 FB out of Monmouth Beach, NJ. I am more of a lurker than poster. I have a questions about Cummins & since this thread started out about that & the people who would problem answer are on this i figured i would ask. Is there a reason all the Cummin's repowers se...

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Pretty ambitious growth forecast.

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It is usually the stb engine as most boats have the props spin port ccw and stb, cw.

Performance applications some times have the props spin opposite or toward one another. Better speed but less boat control.

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Rh and Lh ratation starters are different.

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That's the old Buddy Boy. Funny when we went down to Ft Lauderdale show for the Bertram unvailing of the 36 and sorta the remake of Bertram, they ran the video of that 31. I was standing next to one of the Bertram execs and mentioned did he know who refit that. No he said and I pointed to Pat and my...

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Stanadyne.

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Man has a dealer network in the US.

Stick to an authorized man dealer depending on where in the US you would bring the boat.

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Carl, No problem with what you or Bob said. My issue as an engine installer was to get the max output of an engine up to its rated power for the application. Having a little extra is good. But when you can only use 75% of rated power because you can't load them enough, one is wasting weight and powe...

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One of the 31's I did was 370. Don't remember fuel burn, but top end was 36 knots. Biggest issue was putting the power to the wheels and loading the engines with the limited prop diameter without pockets. Prop tweaking is a must. I also did a set of QSB but cut the hull for pockets to swing a bigger...

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I think Faria makes one set up for pulses from a flywheel.

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