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Tooeez

I take it you mean when you tightened the backing plate the glass under it crushed. I have the same support pieces, one on each side and one in the middle of the transom. I believe that they are placed to stiffen the transom--it is pretty thin. I don't know what's in those supports, but my flybridge...

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Yannis, I respect that you trust your guys, but remember, if you ask a guy that makes his living selling ice what the solution to any problem you have is the odds are the answer is going to be buy some ice. I have replaced both the factory original bearings on my 1979 28: the port side in 2001 at 23...

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I mounted my tabs directly onto the transom, and on the inside I fitted a 2 x 2 piece of mahogany bedded in BoatLife to the inside of the transom and hull bottom. The backing piece is a little longer than the hinge on the tab.

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My switch panel is a Perko setup, with plastic blocks that have a switch on one end and the fuse holder on the other, with a screw at each end. The blocks hook together, one on top of the other. If I unscrew the blocks I can pull them out, and there is enough slack wire to pull the bp switch through...

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When I was doing mine, which had never been painted, I asked the Interlux rep at a show for a recommendation. I was worried about it peeling off, especially in the center where the bilge water lays. He said use the 2000E barrier coat product they make to coat the hull bottom. I did, and after 7 year...

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My 79 came from the factory with 3 pumps: one forward as you describe, one between the engines at the forward engine room bulkhead, and one aft at the transom. The forward pump is controlled by the switch below the fuse panel on the port side of the v-berth. This switch is supplied by the #10 red wi...

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Acetone, rags and elbow grease (lots of all three) will get the surface as close to the original green as possible.

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Thanks. It looks great.

Tooeez

Outstanding! What did you cover the Formica on the dinette seats with? Or did you pull the old Formica off before replacing it?

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My 79 has the hull number laminated into the inside of the transom, on the centerline about a foot below the deck. I also found it a few other places; for example I would take out a drawer, turn it over and and find the number hand written on the bottom. I suppose that a lot of the parts were hand-f...

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In the early 70's, when I was in high school, I worked for a little marina that was a volvo dealer. There were still a few of those early type outdrives with the external boot around, and I think that those early 4 cylinder engines were rated at 80hp. The picture shows a single carb, and I seem to r...

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I wanted to pass this along in case anyone else runs into a similar issue--I've never run into anything like it. So the background is about 2 months ago I replaced my 28's cable steering system with a hydraulic system, which means I spent a lot of time curled up under the flybridge retrofitting the ...

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Amberjack, I think you've answered the question! That's what so great about this forum--you have really knowledgeable and experienced people looking at a question from an angle you might never consider on you own. "really tiny currents"--I never thought about it that way, but it makes perfect sense-...

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Amberjack's reply reminds me of a question I have had for the longest time concerning shaft brushes. If the shaft is connected to the engine, and the engine is connected to the bonding system, and the bonding system is connected to a transom zinc, why the need for a shaft brush? Unless there are one...

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For what it's worth, the rudders on my 28 have no zincs and after 40 years are no worse for the wear---but I check those rudder ground wires ever month!

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On my 79 the factory used long bolts on the rudder mounting bases; the threads stuck up above the nuts halfway up the stuffing box, forming a kind of cage around the stuffing box and making getting any wrench on the locknut just about impossible. When I redid the rudder shelves I cut the bolts flush...

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The Islander in Islamorada is really nice, but pricey--but so is everything else in season. It was completely redone after Irma. It is right across the street from the Lorilei, right on the ocean and close enough to Key West for a day trip.

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I have a forward slanted windscreen on my 28. It does a great job of diverting the wind over your head, but does nothing to stop spray or rain--still need the goggles.

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I need a new flybridge cover, but there are so many canvas shops in the area I don't know where to start looking. Does anybody have any experience with any nearby shops?

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Yes, you can run an a/c off an inverter--but the compromises you have to accept to make it work may not be worth it. My first mate can really be bothered by the heat at times, so when we moved to Florida I knew I was going to have to figure a way to get a/c without a generator. A good rule of thumb ...

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HP is a number; torque is what turns the wheels. I replaced my 5.0's with 5.7's, and the difference in performance is obvious, especially when climbing up the back of a big sea. If you compare the torque charts for the two motors it is easy to see why--the 350's put out a lot more torque at a given ...

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I made a prop from pvc pipe that fits under the aft end of the hatch and the inboard side of the scupper. This prop holds the hatch about half-way open, so when I want to check the engine I pull the 2 pins from the bottom of the ladder, lift it until the bottom hits the railing, then open the hatch ...

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Here's another thought: you have a noise in reverse, but not neutral, which makes one think that whatever is making the noise only turns with the engine in gear. That means everything aft of the transmission output shaft, which in your case is the v-drive. Maybe there's a bad bearing in the drive th...

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I have been following this thread with interest, because I thought that I was the only one who ever had these impossible to figure out, nobody ever heard of such a thing kinds of problems. And since I never worked on a v-drive I was hesitant to offer an opinion. However, I know how frustrating this ...

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Bob, thanks but I think the race car steering is overkill for me. I will check out the Seastar--thanks for the input everybody!

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The Teleflex cable steering helm unit on my 28 flybridge cruiser is telling me that after 40 years its' life is about over. Does anyone have recommendations about the best hydraulic system to replace it with? The boat is single station with gas engines.

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Tony, I never thought about it, but you're right: the original setup, with both lines going to one fitting on top of the tank, would allow a break in one line to kill the suction in the other. Anyway, when I replaced the tank I had two separate fittings made, each with its' own pickup. The only thin...

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The idea behind the safety switch is not to stop the engine in case of a loss of oil pressure--it's to stop the fuel pump in case a fuel line breaks causing the engine to stall. With the pump just wired to the ignition switch as long as the switch is on, engine running or not, the pump has juice--if...

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Wait!! My bad--the wire from the starter switch has to be wired from the LOAD side of the switch to the normally closed side of the pressure switch. If you put it on the line side it would defeat the purpose of having the safety switch.

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Probably because it's a PIA to do it right. You have to install a two terminal pressure safety switch next to your oil pressure sender. The hot feed wire to the pump goes through the normally open terminal, so that when the engine is running the switch is closed and the pump runs. If the engine stal...

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I have pdf's of the original diagrams from the owner's manual for my 79. Send me a pm and I can email them to you.

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Marina is probably right--I have the same thing happen after a week or so. It's easy to check: let it sit a few days, and then before you do anything take off the flame arrestor and look down the carb while pumping the throttle. If the bowl is empty little or no gas will shoot into the carb from the...

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I had a washdown without a scoop that worked at any speed. When I added a livewell I put the pump on the same thru-hull; it would not work at any speed above idle, while the washdown continued to function. After some head-scratching I figured it out: the washdown is a diaphragm pump, which is self-p...

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I'm not that familiar with diesels, so I need to ask do you have a transmission cooler in the seawater line between the raw water pump and the exchanger? All sorts of junk can get caught on the inlet side, and block the tubes so the water flow is restricted to the heat exchanger.

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I've had coils get hot like that when I jumped the resistor and fed them 12 volts. As I recall, the older motors with points were wired so that the coil got 12 volts when the starter was cranking, then ran on the lower voltage through the resistor. Maybe someone fouled up the wiring harness and cut ...

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I broke my cable years ago--the wheel would just spin, but no movement at the rudders. If the wheel is moving a little, and the rudders are moving a little, it sounds like either something blocking the rudder arms, or more likely the gears inside the steering head failed. I replaced my cable, and it...

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Peter, when I was up north I did long weekends just like you describe, and ran my fridge all weekend, coffee pot in the morning and microwave to reheat small items off the inverter with no problem. I had shore power at the dock, so the fridge was cold when I started out, and didn't need a lot of jui...

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Thinking about going under the boat in open water reminded me of a piece of equipment some guys I knew who ran the canyons up north carried: a football helmet. With a single screw boat if you pick up a crabpot line in the wheel 80 miles offshore you have no choice but to go under the boat and cut it...

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I had something similar with a piece of wood in the strut--I hit a submerged 2 x 6 about 5 feet long with the port shaft; it was apparently floating parallel to the long axis (keel) of the boat, and hit the shaft end on, slid down to the strut and jammed into the front end of the strut and stayed th...

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Be real careful with the aluminum foil around the starters and battery cables--I was reminded the hard way that aluminum conducts electricity really well!

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Yannis, if you let the rust get away from you there won't be much left to paint in a few years. I re-do my small blocks about every 2 years: Dremel with a ss wirewheel for the spots that are easy to get to (not many of them), a small brass wire brush for the rest, wipe down with paint thinner follow...

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When I bought my 28 it had two group 29 batteries between the engines sitting on a shelf glassed to the bottom. They sat in about an inch of bilge water, and the boat rolled like a beast. Now I have four group 31's, two on each side, outboard of the engines. The weight and position change made absol...

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On my 79 there are solid mahogany blocks glassed to the transom, and the cleats are screwed through the panels with large self-tapping screws--very sturdy. I replaced my panels with 1/4 starboard.

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I put the oval transom zinc made for SeaRay on my 28 about 30 years ago. I bedded a 1 inch thick mahogany backing block on the inside, and used 1/2 ss carriage bolts to go through the block and transom, followed by a flat washer and nut. The anode mounts on the bolts (the nut up against the transom ...

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Every 28 I have ever seen--mine included--had rot issues in the engine beds. The aft cabin bulkhead is prone to rot or delamination where it meets the engine hatches. The original engines were 228 hp mercruisers based on the 305 Chevy block. If there is ethanol in the gas where you are the original ...

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E-mail sent. I have mine under the aft seat with the supply duct coming up behind the stbd. cabin liner just under the side deck. I have a splitter there, with one leg going to a vent box over the table, and the other leg going to a vent box on the stbd side of the v-berth. All the parts are availab...

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I have all the wiring diagrams. I will send them to you tomorrow. Just a thought: if you had the ignition switch off when you blew the replacement fuses the problem has to be between the toggle switch and the ignition switch, most likely at one end or the other. I can't tell you how many of those v-...

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I have 12v florescent cabin lights--they were common a few years back.

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I have the Floscan twinscan gauges on my 28 with 350 chevys. They are great--it's a shame they don't make them anymore, because they are great for fine tuning your speed to get the most efficiency--sometimes speeding up 100 or so rpm actually cuts the amount of fuel you are using! In any case, I hav...

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The drain hose is soft vinyl, about 3/8 diameter--just make the hole the same size, and push the hose through--it fits tight enough no fumes will get by. By the way, I have the hose coming through the bulkhead about 2 inches below the deck the dinette seats mount to, so in the engine compartment it ...

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