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If enough people complain about these vicious aerial marine predators someone is gonna try to pass a law requiring all persons on vessel must wear kevlar and a helmet with neck and face protection.

Kevin

Bruce,
Spoke with Sid today. We were talking about those new Yan-Beamers at one point. He said he had heard of three boats that burned to the water line with those engines. Fuel system problems I guess. Still happy as a pig in sh!# with my motors.

Kevin

Roger that, Thanks

Kevin

When installing new 0 rings in the stainless ring, is it best to use marine grease to lube them? I noticed when disassembling and cleaning one side was lubed and the other side was dried out.

Kevin

Just do it now. Not that much work in the whole scheme of things. Pulling engine again to change a valve would be work in my book.

Kevin

If you are looking at comparing Steyr I noticed in the heading it said 4 steyr. Steyr does make 4 cylinder motors but nothing in the HP range of the aforementioned 6 cylinder motors. Mine are six cylinders. I love them. The other guys are right though. Service is crucial. If you cant get oil filters...

Kevin

I would feel much better if my boat was not on the hard without running gear in it. I guess I could take the grey one if the situation things got bad. For now the wind is blowing in my favor.

Kevin

Yeah, the coasties really do not put a great deal of time into federal fisheries. Don't get me wrong they do have patrols on 110's that do nothing but that but the majority of what they do is SAR and homeland security duties. Around here you will not see a samll boat patrol duing fisheries checks. S...

Kevin

Do it Timmay. My old lady had it done and she can see now. Some people are not candidates for it though. I do not know all of the details other than if your vision is still changing they may tell you to wait a few years. They told one friend of mine that he was not ready for it yet. Kimberly used to...

Kevin

In Florida you can catch your Federal limits in federal water and return to port. Do not stop and fish on the way back in. Most guys target something such as cobia, which in my neck of the woods is well into federal water. If you have a federal limit and I stop you a mile from the dock, fantastic, g...

Kevin

Will do. Probably be a few weeks though. Pulling the boat for some routine maintenance. Going to Colorado for a week on the 3rd!! I will check out the link also. Thanks guys

Kevin

Yup, that about makes the most sense after hearing it put that way. Not sure why I didn't think of that. Grasshoppa still learning. Thanks

Kevin

Not worried about making it to the lift, definitely enough since it is close by. Just wanted to see if any one figured out the correlations on a wood stick in what half a tank really is when there is 80 or so gallons in there. It is a diesel boat. Also never installed a fuel gauge at this point so I...

Kevin

Does anyone know what the figures are for depth in inches for the quantity of fuel in the tank? With the shape of the tank it is difficult to determine. I just installed a direct fill in the tank next to the pick-up. I have 5 inches of fuel in the tank at rest. I know it is way too low but I plan on...

Kevin

Sounds like a question for Bruce. My guess is without aftercooler no, but can aftercooler be added to increase power without changing injectors?

Kevin

After a long day of driving accross Florida I can always count on a good laugh here. Camo, why didn't I think of that?

Kevin

Jareb,
Trying to go to the Ocala area or possibly Citrus County. Still a lot of variables though. Nothing in stone yet.

Kevin

Sounds like a decent deal to me. Down here you will not pay less than 110 per hour. the guy doing the work will not be giving you 110 dollars worth of knowledge or labor, then you will have to go back afterwards and fix the screw ups, ie, grease on the bolsters and the list goes on. Can't wait to re...

Kevin

I met Dave this past summer. I also admired his strength and will to fight. Best wishes to his family.

Kevin

Thats a lotta hours. How many years did that take you? If that was one year you and I need to talk about my time management!

Kevin

Have them in mine. No complaints. 150 hours on them this year and never touched them.

Kevin

I met a bunch of the wounded wariors last year when they were down here for a a bike run. I was not sure what Kind of an escort my boss was asking me to do but when I arrived and realized what I was doing it was very cool. They road their bikes down certain parts of the keys like on the 7 mile bridg...

Kevin

Bruce, It looks fascinating to me. The idea and concept sound very good. Kinda makes me wonder why the simplicity of that modular design has ot been used in anything I have seen. The first question that comes to mind would be, is it an interference motor? Looking at the pictures I noticed two holes,...

Kevin

Only problem is that OJ was charged for murder also. Hopefully other evidence will be found to prove what happened. The possiblity does exist that someone else came aboard and did the deed. That "possibility" is all a defense attorney needs to put a reasonable doubt in the minds of a jury. Our wonde...

Kevin

I have been logging about 1000 hours a year on the water down here for about 6 years. I have not run into any pirates nor have I found any good booty. There are a lot of drunks running around saying argghhh.

Kevin

I think mine was just held on with screws. The cletes were back plated with nuts and bolts. Depending on how yours is built on the inside you may have to take a few things apart. To properly repair my rubrail I gutted the boat to gain access to the whole thing.

Kevin

Wow, talk about restoration. Where did you put all the screws and how did you label them all for when you are ready to re-assemble? Just kidding, I made at least 50 trips to the hardware store when putting mine back together just for screws. Would like to see pictures along the way if you take them....

Kevin

Would the apperarance of more energy with larger gap between wire and screw driver still be applicable if you doubled the atmospheric pressure?

Kevin

This one could get interesting. Might just sit back and watch for a while.

Kevin

Bruce, air being suddenly cut off did that? Can you explain the sequence of events. Lack of air mixed with melted plastic I am guessing. I will be cleaning my filters tomorrow!

Kevin

Why would you flush the freshwater side? Does it get scaling too? Guess I just missed the bus on this one.

Kevin

I remember the days of being in the boatyard all day and night. Preping for paint took far longer than I expected. Just think how good it will look when you are done!

Kevin

From now on I will leave a full tank of air and a regulator on my dive platform in case any pesky seawalls sneak up and try to pin me under water.

Kevin

I do. After it passed safely around the Keys the boss told us to pack our gear and head north. Thanks to Garmin we were able to cut our way to the Sheriff's Office in that county. We pulled in around midnight. We were the first outside help to arrive. The Sheriff's words were, "I sure am glad to see...

Kevin

GO STEYR!!!!

Kevin

Andre,
sometimes I am just too motivated for my own good. I have wasted alot of time on this boat trying to fix things that just needed to be replaced, but I have learned a great deal. Getting my fresh water system installed and pumping water was a much needed moral booster.

Kevin

Well, it sounds like no go even running a newer ac with honda based on lack of input. Cool air is going on Hiatus, going to start with the other stuff. got the fresh water pump running.......just need to cut hole in counter top for the sink that i have not bought yet.

Kevin

Bottom line for my setup. Generator is good. Think some salt might have been the culprit with receptacle. Never had another reverse polarity isseue. Got the manual for the Marine Air. Despite being a mid 80's model apparently there is some sort of hard start capacitor in it. Took the cover plate off...

Kevin

Even with a couple ladies onboard I sure hope to make a 20 gallon tank last longer than that! Better bring some Peptobismal.

Kevin

It's 3 AM, just got home from work. I kinda thought this topic might get really interesting. I did blast the gen with CX red and I am going to do it again later with copious amounts to clean out the recepticals. As for all the L1 and L2, phases, flux capacitors I am mentally about to short cicuit, b...

Kevin

Wow, it is becoming clear that the more I learn about this the more I need to learn. I did try a two foot section of heavy cord directly from gen to boat receptical. The wire from the receptaccle in the cockpit to the panel is brand new three wire less than eight feet in length. Installed it myself....

Kevin

Peter, Think I get the jist of what you are saying, but things are still a little fuzy. Something else I neglected to mention, may or may not be of importance, but I will explain. Utilizing "cord from outlet at the shed" I have a true ground since somewhere we assume the outlet connects to earth. Wi...

Kevin

Think I am going to stay in the 6-8 gallon zone. I t is not that hard for me to get way offshore around here. Outboard of the port engine seems to be the most logical place. As soon as I get the airconditioner working I will move on to hooking up the head. It is a brand new macerating toilet, never ...

Kevin

Now that I think of it, the multi meter on the panel read about 127ish which is about the sum of the the readings taken with the handheld meter. Does kind of sound like it may be the gen set. Sometimes my curiousity and persistence gets expensive though, tried to get that compressor going 8-10 times...

Kevin

Eddy, Tried both ways a few times and got the same result. In regular mode it still revs up higher when you juice the compressor and will fail after a few seconds if you do not back off. This AC worked great a year ago on 30 amp shore power. At this point everything is sort of new as far as my elect...

Kevin

where do you guys think the best place is to mount the tank? When I was doing my gas to diesel swap I had partially installed one under the cockpit next ot the fuel tank on the port side. Its a 28 though. Ended up taking it out because it got in the way of repower process. I was thinking that outboa...

Kevin

Rawleigh,
Glad you brought that up. I heard about a part some time back that makes the older air conditioners start easier. Capacitor your say, that must be like what they put in large stereo systems to help the amplifier I guess? I need to get that kit ASAP.

Kevin

Forgot to mention with shore outlet there was no voltage with the green to white behind the panel. So the shore source is good I guess.

Kevin

Following instructions heres what I found. Green to Black on the meter got 89.5 v Green to white on the meter got 38.4 v Heres the catch, today the reverse polarity light did not come on. (generator has seen some hard use and probably no maintenence......it spends a lot of time on a tug and barge so...

Kevin

Yeah, the cord is the standard home depot type cord. I know it is not the right way to do it, but good enough to run low amperage stuff like the battery charger while I am working on the boat. I Never leave it unattended. The shore power source is actually not even the house, it is the neighbors she...

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