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Mike, I got to do a little training with a FLIR scope in a simulation house. Unlike regular NV that is affected by lite, the FLIR was awesome. Had some one hiding in a corner of a pitch black room and the display was clear and bright. It was a non cooled unit and sold for 10k and not available to th...

Bruce

Eddy,
The gear temp is a two pole unit already.

Doug,
Thats the special boat show paint job.

Bruce

Thanks, but the one in the pics is not Gerry's(zero cavity). Time Machine has been back at the owners dock for a month now. Gerry had his 31 completly redone at Cabreras in Miami over the last year or so. They dragged it up to my shop on its trailer to finish the electronic contols and interface int...

Bruce

A few of you requested pics of the last finished project, Time Machine. I finally got a break to put some together. Gerry's 31 is causing quite a stir at the shop. I finaly put up a sign to give the details of what was done to the boat as I was not getting anything done. I got some convinced that it...

Bruce

Counselor,

Here are the locations of the alarm switches you requested.

OIL

GEAR

WATER

Bruce

Without details on the type of failure, its impossible to form any opinion on what or what not to do.

Bruce

Matt,
This topic has been covered in depth a few times. Do a search and you should get some good results.

Bruce

I'd call two or three to find out.

Bruce

Call me Thurs.

Bruce

Hal,
Here is the link to the Kubota dealer list. Don't know what state your in or would narrow it down.

http://www.kubotaengine.com/kubotadistributors.htm

Bruce

Installed a crap load of them along with every other manufacturer.

Garmin is the king of GPS.

I have had numerous out of the box failures on sounder modules and some plotters also. No more than any other brand though.

Bruce

Kevin,
What hapened to the notes I gave you for redoing them at the Lauderdale show?

Grasshopper must not ignore the master.

Bruce

I use Standynes and FPPF, but there are others that work well. Avoid most of the products sold at the discount marine stores.

Bruce

John, The LY/315 went away because Yanmar came out with the LP/315 and they didn't need two engines with the same hp. LP is quieter, lighter, more fuel efficent and was designed for an easier replacement for the big block gas. Because it is higher speed, some applications don't need a shaft upgrade ...

Bruce

So much better than having some half ass boat mechanic guessing at the situation.

I'll have you know that I'm considered a full ass in some circles. So there.

Bruce

Kevin, Key movement is not uncommon. Shove it all the way back in till you see the key at the back of the coupling. With the keyway up, use a couple of drops of red lock tite at the key/keyway and let set up. If you get some around the coupling/shaft don't panic. A little heat when needing to remove...

Bruce

In my opinion, if you use the boat enough, buy fuel from a reputable source and have a very good filtration system, additives are not needed Only when relating to algae. The diesel in this country is crap and needs an additive for various conditions. As one who works on, tears down and puts these e...

Bruce

John, The LY series is what was installed in buddy boy. It was a 315hp and discontinued when the LP came out. Its the same engine as the 370, 420 and 440 hp engines. It is a beefier, lower rpm engine than the LP. Its the big brother of the 4LH series with 2 more cylinders. The engines probably have ...

Bruce

Tony,
Having been in the business for 30 years and have used everything on the market, cx out performs just about all comparable products.

Even Tony, the marina mechanic who was a CRC fanatic switched over to cx after I cave him a can.

Its not a cure all, but its close.

Bruce

Thats one reason everyone should have vacuum gauges on their fuel inlets with a tell tale arm. Doc, just fixed one like that the other day. Old mechanic tried everything, was gonna replace harnass and sensors. Called me. Save your money they having to do with your problem. Once I got on the boat it ...

Bruce

Vince, While it is certainly acceptable to run the crossover as a hot pipe, you will need to make sure it is covered 100% or any little oil leak that hits that pipe will ignite. The back of the 31 is a tight area including the distance to the engine box cover. Don't be surprised if it changes paint ...

Bruce

Rawleigh, You can't just use any generic aluminum foil. It starts with high quality Bauxite, an aluminium ore. It consists largely of the Al minerals gibbsite Al(OH)3, boehmite and diaspore AlOOH, together with the iron oxides goethite and hematite, the clay mineral kaolinite and small amounts of an...

Bruce

Vince, Like everyone else, that hole you see is the fuel guage sender, that is a seperate unit from the main plate. There is a 1 1/2" hole in the fuel plate that the float from the sender goes down into. If you remove that old sender, you'll see the nice round hole. Remove the screws around, disconn...

Bruce

Ric, I understand legalease about as much as I understand women. An attorney would be best for that. Yanmar or any other company would not want the engine to fail as it would cost much more to repair or replace it. Contact your local dealer and get them to get the ball rolling on your behalf, but ma...

Bruce

Well another show came and went. It was slower than a game of bingo being called by a deaf mute. Both jewelry booths in the main tent where I was at seemed to be the busiest and the typical Guy Harvey and Sperry over priced and over rated apparel seemed to do well. The few times I walked outside, th...

Bruce

Ric, If you heard that noise, don't run the boat any further. The heads will need to be pulled and sent to a shop that knows how to deal with the problem. That noise is the exhaust valves just hitting the pistons when they are hanging up in the guide.. Valves need to be checked for damaged. Yanmar s...

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UV. No fight. You were correct, as is the case most of the time, to let the 6LP owners know and offer them a copy of the suit if they didn't already have one. Funny thing about the address problem. It came up at the last Yanmar meeting. Selling dealers were not filling out the paper work and sending...

Bruce

Doug, Pat had a description of a plastic cap you can make to cover the bearing. But I've never seen a plastic bearing for that use. Being bronze, with a little heat, the packing nut backed off and a brass 1" drift punch with a 3lb hammer, the rudder should come out of that steel bearing. Make sure t...

Bruce

UV,

sue-ers (a legal term?)

That's pronounced "sewer".

Bruce

As a Yanmar dealer, I can only tell you what I have seen with the engines I have installed and what I have heard from Mastry, a Yanmar distributor. First I have had no failures with any 6Lp's and I installed one of the first pairs available in a 31. I have seen two failures come thru in service work...

Bruce

Wayne,
Are you sure it was max wax and not rejex or another actual wax you using?

Max wax is an anti corrosion coating.

Bruce

Mike,
Your an animal.

Bruce

After talking with him in depth about the technical aspects and construction I will track one down. With the boat show next week it might happen. Anything that is hit hard enough to break off the drive would drive a pair of struts up thru the hull. I've seen aluminum outdrives hit stuff pretty hard ...

Bruce

Welcome to the government way of thinking. If ya don't use your quota, then rather than let them breed to create more or grow larger for the next seasons, we'll give them to somebody else. Not even taking into consideration what Katrina did to the fishing fleet and allow them to rebound. They do the...

Bruce

being you have only ran for an hour since sept and fueled up at an old marina, I would look toward old degraded fuel.

Do the smell test. If bad, have it pumped out and tank cleaned.

Edited to add:
Don't try and use additives to recover the fuel at this point if that's what the problem is.

Bruce

The prop shop I use has a old worn out set of tables taped to a desk that is used with a ruler. He is 70% right on the money. 30% within an inch of change. They have a very expensive computer program that he says dont' work. While back he calculated a set of props for me and I made him fire up the c...

Bruce

Kevin, Drop the props if there is less than 1" between the strut and prop, remove spacers and put coupling to coupling to align. When done put the spacers and props back on. Becareful trying to align to packing tube. If the strut has tweeked at all, you'll drive yourself nuts cause the shaft will no...

Bruce

there are a lot of nicely painted "fairly" clean Detroits out there They are part of the Jackie Mason Jewish fleet. With the advent of air seps, it cut down on the oil film that blanketed the entire engine room and reduced the leaks to a slow drip. But oil slinging dump truck engine still applies. ...

Bruce

We tuned the props and had the Volvo tech come out to certify the D-4's. Went smooth, no problems. With the Volvo computer hooked up we got the following info for final setup at the owners cruise speed. WOT engines turn 3600. 2800 rpm cruise 22.5 knots 67% engine load 7.5 gallons per hour burn each ...

Bruce

There's a difference between algae, which is a growth and is usually stringy looking in appearance and sludge which is more mud like. You tackle each problem differently. Algae means you have moisture and growth inside the tank. Many times most of the algae will attach itself to the tank insides. Wh...

Bruce

There is absolutly no substitute for an experienced propeller shop.
Period.

Don't waste your time on any computer program. I haven't seen one yet that worked.

Bruce

They are supposed to be warm!

Thus the reason for living here.

I guess I'm ahead of the curve for once.

Bruce

Dad always said,

Son if your going to be stupid, you'd better be tough.

Bruce

Its been 82 and sunny down here since well, last year.

Bruce

Just sitting here at lunch time trying keep up with the ever growing price increases and still be able to have an estimate good for longer than 15 minutes when I got a delivery of a Kohler part. I ended up spitting the soda thru my nose when I looked at the invoice. A 2"x2" relay board with about 3 ...

Bruce

Palm Beach County prosecutor bitten by shark By Daphne Duret Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Monday, March 12, 2007 TIGER SHORES BEACH â€” A prosecutor with the Palm Beach County State Attorney's office became the victim of an apparent shark attack Sunday while surfing at the Tiger Shores Beach off Hut...

Bruce

The last 31 I did I considered extending the shaft tube to the strut. After running some numbers on expense vs additional gain, it wasn't worth it for the average boater. If your fishing tournaments and staying out to the last moment and need the speed to get back in time to weigh in with big prize ...

Bruce

Try the link for a company that may be able to handle the motor.

http://www.dtiparts.com/products.cfm

Bruce

why is I excluded

Picking on the token Hat guy is too easy anymore. We need more creativity.

Bruce

http://www.boatus.org/onlinecourse/ReviewPages/BoatUSF/PDF_files/info4c.pdf The above will give you federal laws. State or local laws can be stricter. Check. Also with marinas wanting to be certified as Green or Clean marinas anyone caught discharging a head will lose their dockage and can be fined...

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Volvo cert on the D-4's and IPS drives.

When's it gonna end?

What happened to professional courtesy?