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I spoke to one of the dealers mechanic and he told me you can use straight weight oil. But then I read on google that 15w-40 is almost the same as sae 30.

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I used 15w-40, will I be ok?? Remember, I'm in Puerto Rico.
Hot, beach day all year round.

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What would you use, ATF or 15w40? The manual says ATF but Tony Athens recommends 15w40. Right now they have 15w40 but I haven't run the engines.

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Hardtop has been installed.

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Hardtop is painted.

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I was able to paint the white edge of the hardtop today with 3 quotes. If everything goes according to plan I should paint the gray area tomorrow.

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Installed the port shaft today but I'm going to replace all the bolts on the couplers with grade 10 or 8, I feel the ones I have are too "soft". Already damaged the threads on one. Also rolled 3 coats of primer on the areas that were worked on.

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Never thought of that idea, I did use a socket as spacer while using the porta power. What I did was cut a 7" long piece of 4"w flat bar, opened 2 holes to attach it to the coupler with 2 bolts and opened a 7/8" hole right in the middle and welded a 3/4" nut. Now with different lenght of bolts I'll ...

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Installed the starboard prop shaft, propeller and zincs today, also left the port shaft on the hole, I wanted to fabricate a puller to remove the shaft from the coupling as I've been doing it with the porta power but I don't carry that in the boat. So used the coupling to get the correct measurement...

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Apparently the fiberglass, filler, primer and paint don't want to let me go. I was looking at the first pictures of the project yesterday and saw that when I removed the old trim tabs I had filled about 70 screw holes with west system 610 but never fiberglassed over them, so started the day doing th...

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6 AGM batteries were installed today. 2 starting for each engine and 2 deep cycle for the house/generator. Believe it or not I cleaned the wiring and it still looks like this.

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Woke up this morning at 5am and was at the boat at 6am, measured the space between the strut and prop on the port side with a caliper and it was 2 3/8", removed the shaft and cut 1 3/8" so now the gap should be 1". Moved to the stbd side and did the same thing, the space between the strut and shaft ...

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Carl, I may have found another setback, the previous post had me thinking and I went back to the boat to measure the distance between the prop hub and strut, its 2 3/8". As you can see in the pics the shadow of electrical tape in the shaft, I used this to mark where the shaft was with the previous e...

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Shafts were replaced with new Aquamet 22’s.
I was under the impression that the Yanmars lack torque, at least compared with the cummins.

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Bling bling went on today. They are Veem 20 x 20 x 4 x 1.375

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Pics of the visor painted:

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At least its sunny and hot down here. Keep getting your asses frozen.

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I was able to paint the back drop yesterday.

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Yesterday afternoon I went to the boat and applied the first 2 coats of paint and the sand. This morning I blew the excess sand and gave it the 2 coats on top of the sand. Tomorrow I'll sand and paint back drop. https://i.imgur.com/THdHO7u.jpg https://i.imgur.com/kr8ALgj.jpg https://i.imgur.com/NIqo...

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Boat was painted in june last year so its been 6-7 months.

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The paint that lifted up was the old paint. My paint is well adhered to my primer and no the old paint. So someone in the past that painted the boat didn't sand or primed.

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Here you can see the diamond pattern under the pieces of paint from yesterday, also you can see the layers of my paint, my 545 and the old paint. https://i.imgur.com/5ER5lyR.jpg https://i.imgur.com/1ipIJBT.jpg https://i.imgur.com/sgWJbND.jpg https://i.imgur.com/VnYpM9U.png When I got to the boat thi...

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Another damn setback regarding the old paint on this boat. I'm already getting tired of the boat and it hasn't hit the water yet. Had the same thing happen to one of the corners of the bridge, the paint had small bubbles so started sanding them with the DA and I couldn't feather the edges, until one...

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I was able to paint today the area that the paint bubbled up last week. It came out great.

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Went to prime the area today and saw 2 small pores coming through the filler so opened the pores up with the dremel, it had a brown substance inside, cleaned the 2 small holes with acetone and filled the 2 holes. Sanded everything and applied 2 coats of 545, rolled them because I didn't want to cove...

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I thought that I had finished the boat yesterday when I painted under the gunnel on the cockpit but the boat decided to throw me a curve ball on the 1st of the year. When I went into the boat today I noticed an area that the paint had bubbled and out came the DA. Sanded the area until I reached the ...

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Went to the boat today and started to organize everything. Made the toolbox, engine spare parts, spare bolts, screws, oil, etc. I'm not used to not having space to put stuff away. Before this boat my dad had a Hatteras 43 DC so I had more space than anything. Also cut the 4 plates on the dinghy's cr...

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I was able to clean the whole interior, installed the bridge ladder, I had bought 3 plastic boxes to put stuff in them (they go in between the fuel tanks) so also filled them up and put them in place and painted the deck hatches. They were painted with awlcraft 2000 but because now I used Awlgrip, I...

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I had the sunny day that I needed to finish and was able to finish all the painting. Painted the gutters and last week's repair. Tomorrow I'll install the bridge ladder, install the gutter's drain and clean the interior completely and she's done. Now to save some money for the insurance and travel t...

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Another sunny day so painted the deck. Just need 1 more day like this to finish the boat completely!!

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Finally a sunny day. I applied 2 coats of Awlgrip and then the sand. If tomorrow doesn't rain, I'll vacuum the excess sand and apply 2 coats of paint.

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Haven't been able to paint the floor as its been raining non-stop for the last 2 weeks. I did install a second switch panel on the lower helm yesterday as I ran out of switches. Also the fiberglass cloth on the left side of one of the gunnel supports never dried (it was installed almost 2 years ago)...

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Finally I was able to prime the deck with the 545. Gave it 4 coats as I had already mixed it. It has been raining non-stop all week and finally had a break today. Also took a picture of the boat from the entrance of my dads shop and it looks sick with the black wrap. If it doesn't rain tomorrow morn...

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Name and front black wrap have been installed.

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Finally she's ready for primer after 8 long hours of sanding today.. If tomorrow doesn't rain I'll prime it in the afternoon.

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Hopefully this is the last coat of fairing compound. I'll sand it tomorrow if it doesn't rain, tape around the floor and prime it. This time I'll do it with a roller. I'm not covering the whole boat.

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Deck is almost done. Just have a few scratches on the stbd side, a few more on the port side and need to level the center. I'm hoping to do it tomorrow afternoon so that on friday I can sand whatever is left and prime and paint during the weekend.

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Spent the day yesterday "fairing" the floor using west system 410 and 407. I've used about 7 gallons of resin fairing the damn floor. Applied the first coat yesterday and got it about 75% straight on both sides (cream color) in the center I used the 407 as I ran out of 410. Sanded everything down to...

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Started today at 8am by cutting the hole where the gutters go. After it was cut, used the router to get the plywood from 3/4" to around 3/8" so that the lip of the gutter would sit flush with the plywood, mixed some cabosil and glued the gutters to the deck. An hour later sanded everything and layed...

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Went to the boat today and installed the deck. After screwing it down, I prepared some cabosil and filled in the edges. Cut the hatches gutters from the old deck and cleaned them up . Plan for tomorrow if it doesn't rain is to install the gutters back on the new floor and put the 2 layers of 1708 n ...

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I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news first. Had to scrap the floor, as you will see in the first pic the blue arrow, that half of the floor has a big hump, don't know why but it looked terrible. The other half was acceptable but I wasn't going to replace just half the floor so scrap...

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Snipe wrote: ↑Oct 16th, '21, 19:34 Rick this was it today after fairing and filling and blocking it down.

What did you use to fair? Resin with west system 410?

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Foam core has been glassed in place. Tomorrow I'll throw it in the boat and see how level it really is.

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Yup...

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Get bored floating at the beach.

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Installed and wired the trim tab pump and both fuel senders. Also cut the aluminum angles that go behind the tanks and ordered the screws for them. Lastly cut, shaped and installed the foam core on the floor's skin. On one of them put a few batteries on top and on the other one put the band saw on t...

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Tanks are in place, all hoses connected, full of diesel and no leaks!! Also installed a fuel pump in between both racors and connected it to the tank equalizer system I made :-D :-D. This will become handy to fill the fuel filters. Lastly for today, I was able to make the frame for the back deck usi...

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Soooooooo!!!!! While I'm here...... Started the day grinding 3" around the perimeter where the removed floor sections will be attached back in place, also grinded the same 3" on the 2 halves of the removed floor. As I had to cut all the wood cross members under the floor and it will be replaced by 3...

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Today sanded and painted the tanks with epoxy primer. Also installed all the fittings.

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