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Mikey,
After a few hours of dock running do a valve check and/or adjustment before sea trialing. Cold engine of course.

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A continuity check due to the fact that the boat is in water, bonding and ground systems are tied together in most cases and leakage all over the place I think is useless unless you are actually checking one end of a detached wire to the other end of a detached wire. You could check from the ducer s...

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Take a seperate 12v battery and hook up the depth finder to it. Power up to see if its still doing it. If so then also hook up that VHF. If still doing it you've eliminated the posiblility of a ground loop problem and its an rf problem. That is maybe inside the display on the ducer cable socket the ...

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If the angle was off from the original sruts, they should have been sent back. Its easy enough to check with the old struts to make sure. If the logs were raised that would explain the need for a strut pad. Logs should only be changed to accomodate larger shafts or packless seals/fiberglas tubes and...

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Dug,

You have to understand all that chatter is from people who's boats are like a trailer park.
They may have wheels, but they never go anywhere.

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UV, You can get that dye from a refrigeration supply house. I use it to find freon leaks. If you can't find it, let me know and I'll send you some. You can't see it by sight without the light. Sorta like those crime scene shows. I never used it in a circumstance like yours though. Don't know if the ...

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New WAAS Satellites...The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently decommissioned two WAAS GPS satellites and activated two replacement satellites. This means the WAAS firmware in certain older and some current model GPS receivers are no longer able to receive WAAS correction signals. There ar...

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With the higher pressure your right, the amonut of fuel injected would have been greater leading to fouling.

Fuel pressure readings are important to diagnosing FI systems.

That would have eliminated electric issues.

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Wayne, Looks like sludge, not tank residue. But I would not run without a screen. Remember you have lines and fittings between the tank and filters. I have had to clean or replace fuel lines with this problem. It can have the same effect as plaque in your arteries and veins. Its quite a bit more tim...

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Having been to the keys numerous times, clean is harder to find than you would think. From expensive resorts to little mom and pop, mold and mildew was almost in every room. I think you would do better to stay a name hotel chain. The "resort" moniker in the keys leaves alot to be desired. If I had a...

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Dick, One thing about Rinda diagnostic computers, they won't tell you if a sensor is off voltage. Get yourself the Merc ( not clymer or other brands) shop manual. It will show you how to check voltage and resistance of the sensors. To the computer it appears to be working but say if the temp sensor ...

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Question for you. Did you replace or change the shaft log? If you have an original strut, the dimensions from center cutlass bearing to top of strut plate should be the same. I have seen a few with that much spacing, but it was due to bad engine placement and the struts were an after thought instead...

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Yes you can if you have the space. The couplings have to come apart, push shaft back, remove nut inside of gear output flange(1.5" I think off hand). Once nut is off, coupling should come off splined shaft. if not a puller is needed. Replace seal. On the reduction gear drives there is a crush spacer...

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Pat,
Thanks but no. Its like a fine bronze screen encased in teflon.

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The older hulls were thicker, but not enough weight difference to increase fuel usage.

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Looking for a product I think is called or described as "Teflon based bearing film".

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Thanks for the offer Nic, but she's not the boating type.

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Very nice.
Wife's sister just arrived in Sydney for a three week stay.

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Very nice.

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I also use the blue dawn. Cuts grease real good and is cheap. Follow Vics instructions and it works fine. It will only keep a well maintained turbo, just that. An oily well caked carbon built up turbo needs to be removed and the cartridge cleaned in a hot parts cleaner. A good way to see if the turb...

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The last 31 I did, "Time Machine" did not have tabs and with the gassers, owner never needed it. After the diesel conversion and larger props, he is riding a little more bow high and tends to pound more. We've ordered a set of the Q-tabs and I will be installing them when they come in. Owner did not...

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David.
If your looking for something that is a direct drop in with little to no modifications it ain't gonna happen.

Diesels do fit in a 25. But its gonna take some engineering and planning and quite a bit of work.

Its not a project that a novice should tackle.

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Wrong boat to install pockets to reduce prop exposure for shallow running.

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[quote="CaptPatrick"][/quote]
DON'T TRY THIS WITH EPOXY THINNED WITH ALCOHOL OR ACETONE!

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I will add to what Pat said,

Repowered both stock and prop pocketed 31's.

Standard- Yanmar 6LP 315hp 33 knots wot.

Prop Pocket- Cummins QSC common rail 330hp 34.9 wot.

Estimated cost to be able to swing the extra prop for a 1.9 knot gain, $14,000.00.

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What's winter?

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Timmy, Seen that one already. If you notice most everyone has a very poor free hand shooting stance which partly explains when someone starts to fall back they throw the rifle away from them. After the first guy, the rest have in their minds already that the rifle is going to jump out of their hands...

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but 2:1 is the best option

Only when dealing with engines in the higher rpm ranges.

You couldn't swing a prop under a 31 with a Cummins with a 2:1 gear without going to an absurd pitch.

1.5:1 would be better than the 1.23:1. But they will work.

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I would hold off the Yanmar BY series (made by BMW) till 08'.

They have had some problems as with every new design and have started and stopped production numerous times.

I would wait till all the bugs are out.

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Just having fun..........

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Actualy the rf power that radiates from electronic gear is very relavent to this thread because we are talking about a wireless device. Most illegal linear amps for radio transmission power do cause quite a bit of problems. Examples of those problems only help to explain. Sorry Dug, but being a thre...

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....here's the correct procedure for priming a Detroit: 1) Connect fuel line to engine. 2) Start engine. While you do not need to bleed injector lines on a Detroit, there are requirements to makes sure the fuel is to your engine at least. Other wise you will burn out a starter trying to prime. That...

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Steve I can see comming thru a rough inlet and a guy on the jetty places a call to his wife telling her how rough it is. A stray signal shuts your unit down or the units batteries die or it gets wet from heavy rain and the guy describes in detail to his wife about your boat crashing into the rocks. ...

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Any of you with some extra cash, JFK's garand is up for auction.

Would be real nice to add to a collection.

http://www.rockislandauction.com/view_i ... iid=205462

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Since Merc came out with a high rpm diesel rated bravo, the combination is fine and I would not hestate to put one on my boat. I was commenting on the earlier version that Ian posted about. The Bravo 3 drive is just a duo prop version. Upper ends where the cone clutch style shifting is the same. Ste...

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They are using the 6lp 315hp. Gary Nicholas, Jack's, son has a 37 Sterling with a pair of the Bravo #1 drives and the 6lp 315hp with the Teleflex controls. Unfortunatly the boat maker went under during construction and was finished in haste. Spent some time working out the kinks. Did a Donzi with th...

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Puffing I'm sure big black belows of smoke due to the lack of air, carbon built up in the cylinders and hung up some exhaust valves A turbo diesel needs its turbo to run. Otherwise what you have is the fuel system dumping massive amounts of fuel into the cylinders that can't be burned. This is why ...

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Gotta do it by the book or you will never get them started.

Listen to our wise uncle, he speaks the truth.

Good job Mikey.

Need a job?

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Congrats. I saw that boat a few weeks ago while up in OC.

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That's the 420 Yanni from the above story.

I asked him how he didn't hear that noise on the way back in after the turbo sucked the bag and quit pushing air.

Something about beer and the radio.

At 35k for a new motor, I hope the beer was cold and the tunes comforting.................

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To continue the dog days thread,

The queen of mean left her dog 12 million in a trust.

Woof...................

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Ouch.

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There is a guy on E bay selling marine engines out of the Florida 407 area code named Matthews.

Don't buy anything from him.

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A 280hp should be out soon. But the torque figures I'm seeing should equal that of the Yanmar 315.

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Don't run your turbo with no air inlet screen or filter and don't flush the freshwater side of the cooling system with muriatic acid. Two 30 something brothers are customers of mine. One has a 37 Sea Vee with a 420 Yanmar. The other has a commercial fishing boat with a 550hp Yanmar. In the last 5 mo...

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As far as lube and anti corrosion, yes.

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Rawleigh,
I was trying to keep the purchase cost down so I could repower, cleanup and make the resale affordable to the average joe.

It wasn't meant to be on this one.

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Sorry Rick but ya don't go in the water near a boat with the engines running.

He should have known that even better than the average person.

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I don't need anything so bad that I'll go nuts and over bid just to dance naked in the mirror upon winning the auction Not me. I was describing the type of person those Ebay over achievers are. I guess if you thought of me, I should be flattered. But your not my type, ya know that whole dangling pa...

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Ya know if the first thing that pops into your mind in a slang phrase like that is the actual image of a naked man, then I got to call HOMO on this one.

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