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Kevin

It is really starting to sound like not just guys with fiberglass are getting screwed. domino effect all across the way we live. Just does not make any sense as to why we as humans never seem to do the right thing. Soon wars will not be fought over religion, they will be fought over corn.

Kevin

Outboards in my opinion would be a poor bandaid for the hatch problem. Then you would have expensive to purchase, maintain, and run outboards. You are talking serious fiberglass work for outboards. Then you still have a boat that runs on gas. Is the tank fiberglass or has it been replaced. Remember ...

Kevin

Scot, definitely a good read. I had read it before but read it again. I am glad I have the "Self Aligning" shafts.

Kevin

No prob. I spoke with Bruce and if I remember correctly he also advised me to stay away from the PVC. Maybe he will chime in here to verify my horrible memory. Doing it once sucks. Doing it twice is...you get the idea!

Kevin

I have 1 1/8 shafts and used 2" fiberglass tube. I forget if glass is measured inner or outer diameter. Better to go as big as possible with glass tube for corresponding PSS seal. Allows more adjustment. Are you re-doing your tubes or using stock components? Depending on how much room you have insta...

Kevin

I was told better to put them as far away from strut as possible. Water turbulence was the reason. Mine are about three quarters the way up the shaft. Not sure if a donut zinc causes much turbulence to begin with.

Kevin

The wife always sais, "remember, we talked about that we agreed......" Not going to BS you here, I guess I took in a lot of good info at the show....but I am drawing a blank on the mounts. I yanked the AC box, moved the fuel vent line, and rerouted raw water to avoid chafing per you recomendations. ...

Kevin

Sounds about right to me. They are slick as snot. Droping engine on it was like putting sled on snow. Just spoke with Steyr and they are sending new mounts. They said 3/8 thick angle could be used to fabricate the base for the mount. Looking at the pics from the IQM website it looks to be not much m...

Kevin

Eddy, The wedges we had made at the starboard shop were perfect in shape. We fought with getting the engine somewhat aligned to the shaft. As soon as any wieght was taken off the A frame and put on the starboard, we lost the eyball alignment and the wedges would move. Not only that, the actual engin...

Kevin

Vic, thanks, I found them. I made wedges like that out of starboard and difficult to keep them in place. I am thinking that I need heavy gauge aluminum caps to go over the beds. I can bolt the mounts to them, hang the motor on an A frame with mounts already bolted to the aluminum, and then run large...

Kevin

I have used most of the Garmin units mentioned here. I think they are the most user friendly between all the brands have used. Not sure why Ricksya is having that motion problem. The last Garmin that I used that had that problem was the 215, but that was a late 90's unit, black and white, slow procc...

Kevin

10-4 on the loctite. Got that part under control now. Went to slide the back of the engine outboard a little to perform the alignment and found the real problem. The vulcanized rubber on the mount started to seperate from the metal portion of the mount. Sounds like a good culprit for a vibration to ...

Kevin

Discount marine store? Is that an Oxymron?

Kevin

Majic 8 ball sais definitley yes to a PM

Kevin

Vic, Wait a minute! You mean to tell me you are not supposed to pump the throttle when starting a diesel? That made me chuckle.

Kevin

Every time I start my diesels when they are cold they emit enormous amounts of blue smoke. When new the smoke was minimal. 65 hours is still new but they are definitley smokers as they age. Clears up significantly after you run it though. I am all ears for the propper lubrication additive.

Kevin

Vic, I thought about a longer key also. Just might try it. Scot, The shaft is pretty much flush to thecoupler. The set screws have decent counter sinks/dimples to set into. The shaft does not touch tranny flange. I could see the shaft flaring ever so slightly over time but I have the one inch space ...

Kevin

Harry, I suspected that loctite may be a bad idea in the long run. I will take your advice and not proceed with the loctite. I bought the key in large piece form from the hardware store, maybe I over filed the sharp edges and made it to loose. I think I will try making another key on my next day off...

Kevin

Vic, Sorry, key is what I meant....brainfart. The key is sliding towards the gear. Normally would not be a problem since it can't slide toward the gear because of the output shaft coupler itself. In my case, the "spurs 1" spacer" between the couplers is hollow like a donut, leaving a void area for k...

Kevin

I think I am just going to put some loctite on the keyway and slide it back in. we'll see what happens

Kevin

Went to remove the 1 inch spacer between the coupler and output shaft. Took the bolts out, slid shaft aft and tried to pullout the spacer. It was getting hung up on the key way. The keyway had slid forward just over half of its length. I suppose in a setup with out the donut shaped spacer, the keywa...

Kevin

Got mine from butler. No compalints other than price tag. Built very tough.

Kevin

Is thicker foil better than thinner? Should it be name brand or is generic OK?

Kevin

I have similar setup also. My charger is a promariner and I have a two alternator, three battery isolator. There is no longer any AC wiring in the boat. I boaught a blue seas 8408 AC DC panel. Going to install everything in the cabin near the hole in the bulkhead on the starboard side. Wire routing/...

Kevin

Ditto on that. Get rid of those gate valves. I put ball valves in mine. The plate looks good with exception of the sender and the valves.

Kevin

Is one better than the other. I know the isolator inhibits the charging slightly and generates some heat. I have one of those three bank isolators but never installed it. I am getting to the wiring aspect of cabin rebuild. I have a new AC DC panel and got rid of all the old wires. Battery charger is...

Kevin

VW has some dang funny commercials though. The wrecking ball coming from out of no where and demolishing a Honda with a 100 shot of NOS that put down a stellar 120 hp on the dyno is always amusing. That same honda had a hood from a funny car. If you have a sense of humor anything like mine check thi...

Kevin

Nope, that is one thing I have not done. Beds yes, but not the bulkheads. Technically I did not do the beds, paid for that one. No hurry on the care package. Waiting for impellar, when it arrives and I replace it, then I can go back to the shaft alignment. Between the oil dilema, shaft alignmet and ...

Kevin

I have a 28, so I am out. Besides, I saw no mention of breakfast, the most important meal of the day.

Kevin

If time had allowed I would have done it another way....deadlines, too late now. I think I have enough space between props and strut to slide shaft forward. May just have to loosen set screws on stainless/drippless collar so boat does not sink since bellows will not be compressed while slid in forwa...

Kevin

I was doing the tranny side and thought I was making progress, but shifting the mounts casued spacer to move slightly. My angle is slightly high. Dive under boat all the time to check cutless you can see a slight angle exageration. Shaft did not touch tube anywhere despite extra angle in tube. the b...

Kevin

Started to pick up vibration on the port motor. Also the dripless started slinging water around. The angle of the tube is slightly more than it should be. I watched the shaft and tranny thru the cockpit access and there was a visible wobble in the tranny as the rpm's went up, and then it smooths out...

Kevin

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worth the watch. It makes you realize how much smarter you are when compared to others.

Kevin

Mike, sorry about that, I should have elaborated on that. the above post is for South Atlantic. Gulf fisheries has seperate rules. If you need any info I can get it for you. Kevin

Kevin

Statistically, there are twice the number of commercial fishing vessels worldwide, than what the oceans can handle. National Marine Fisheries predicts that by 2048 the world oceans will not even be able to sustain commercial fishing. Just another tidbit, you charter boat guys do not need to carry tu...

Kevin

Free? There has to be a story behind that one!

Kevin

Lore, I do have clearance problems. Lengthwise they are great, widthwise they are outstanding. The height is the problem. The chrysler 318's that I yanked di not fit either. The only engine to my knowledge that would fit is the merc 233. Remember, there are many different engine bay combos from year...

Kevin

I need lenses for mine too. Will those part numbers work on the hyena?

Kevin

Just found some literature on shell rimula. Apperently, it is also made to meet the European standards of high performance engines, what ever that means. If one oil is better than the other, shouldn't everyone use it? Why would Mobil 1 5W 50 be approved, but then Shell 10W 40 also be approved. If th...

Kevin

Yes, I can get that here in the keys. I was told Shell Rimula? for the warranty. Midas well stay fully synthetic, it came that way from the factory. I have tons of other work to do on the boat anyways. So far I guess that is the only downside with Steyr, but not a big deal. When I find the oil I wil...

Kevin

Never heard anything about it. The weather was pretty terrible during the time frame of the test. The guys down here never heard anything about it either so I am guesing it was delayed.

Kevin

Ok then. Glad I have nothing to worry about. Now I can concentrate on how to get some "phantom oil" for the crank case. Thanks for all the input guys!

Kevin

That is the original sole. It was waffle pattern but had a lot of wear and stress on it. Sanded primed and painted was all the that I did. Of course I made specail efforts not to be the guy that had the spray gun in my hand. Bad things happen when I try to paint. So is a 28 not suppossed to have com...

Kevin

If you look close there is a hatteras sinking by the blowboaters in the background. (:

Kevin

The boat is Awlgrip cloud white. I Just masked and painted the deck portion Awlgrip moonsdust with nonskid in the paint(sprayed on). The flybridge deck is also moondust color. The panels around the cockpit are to my knowledge the originals and I simply prepped them the same way and had them sprayed ...

Kevin

Thanks for posting the pics! That was about 27-28 kts with full tank of fuel. She is about 150 rpm shy of recomemded wot. 733 lbs or so per side, engine and tranny. Roughly 400 lbs lighter than small blocks. More lard in the rear may actually get bow out of water more. Time will tell. Need to tweek ...

Kevin

Forgot to mention I had starbright bio stuff in the tank already. The tank is about half full now. Would love to go run the snot out of it, but there is no oil in the crank case. Sid from Steyr told me right before I did my oil change that Steyr said for warranty purpose that they now allow Mobil 1 ...

Kevin

So is the algae like water as far as the filter is concerned? What I am trying to say is, since there was only about 4 table spoons in each filter, do i need to drain filter frequently until the algae has cleared up with bio bore? Is the algae actually going through the engine, or does filter remove...

Kevin

Drained the racors of the tank today. Filled a beer mug with each filter. On the bottom(seperated very quickyl) there was what looked like coffee. I pulled the diesel fuel off the top with a rag and the blackish colored stuff also appeared to be slighty thicker than diesel. Any ideas? Is it normal?

Kevin

sorry about the confusion. in the email the number is not the hull number. it is the picture number. the number the camera designates. I do not know how to tell what number the boat is. I don't even care! None of them are the same anyways. If you guys that already have the pics cna easily post them ...

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