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flased-up the new engine tonight and it sounds good, 40psi oil pressure at an idle. i won't have time to test it this weekend because we are going to cape breton, but i will get it in the water the first of next week and try her out. so far the total cost has been- boat with siezed motor and no...

boat tech ,i am a lisenced auto mechanic by trade but i left that and went to work for a company that does mechanical, welding and machining mostly for the marine industry. not the small stuff though we do a lot of work for the navy, coast guard and other shipping companies. the furtherest i...

i got the motor installed on the weekend and just have to finish up the wiring, hook-up some hoses, install the drive and do some cleaning up. the hurricane wasn't bad, no property dammage or loss of power.

i picked up the engine last night and striped and cleaned it. measured the lobes on the cam and the one from the new engine is bigger so i will use it. i will pick up some brass frost plugs today and change them before i put the motor in. it doesn't sound like i will be able to go boating on...

i found a 22' sunray with a blown 350 and bought it for the parts too covert mine but the sunray is in such good shape i will keep it and fix it. took the engine out last night and stripped it of all the parts and will pick up a engine tonite. hopefully i will be boating by sunday.

i seen poeple look for this type of problem before and then come to find out that the impeller fell off thier engine water pump. it wouldn't hurt to check.

took the head off tonight and #3 piston was broken and that cyclinder was cracked. have to decide now weather to sell it or fix it.

i can do all my own work,

thanks boat teck, i know i will need the transom plate and everything else due to this being an unique engine. i am going to check tomorrow on all the used parts.

went boating out in the salt water yesterday and the engine got a ticking noise. i never noticed any performance problems but when i put it back in the lake in the late afternoon the noise changed from a tick to a rattle then it stopped. now i am looking for the parts to change it over to a...

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i use tripple guard made by omc, you can get it at your omc dealer.

anyone who is unsure of what prop the should be using should check out www.mermaidmarine.com the is a prop wizard tool on threre, just put in the make of bout,ect and it will give you your choises for speed, towing in aliminum and stainless. i don't reccomend stainless unless you are in the...

the condensor will act up also when it gets hot, for the price of it replace the points and condensor, it does not take much for them to give you problems.

check your exhaust riser it could be plugged with rust and scale.

i went to go boating on sunday but my engine was running out of gas at the warf. there was 3/4 of a tank in it so i started looking for problems, the fuel pump did not seem to be sucking so i installed an used electric pump and it still would run out of gas. then i took the boat out of the water...

you are well under 10 hp with an electric motor.

i would check wal-mart, any of the water repellant sprays for canvas tents will work.

what kind of boat is it? is the transom plate the same thickness over the whole stern or is it like a 4' x 4' section where the sterndrive goes through the hull? like i said anything can be done but what is wrong with the engine/sterndrive that is in the boat already? i bought a boat about 5...

all i ever wanted was a 40' cape islander converted to a pleasure boat.