I would like to thank everybody on this forum for the great knowledge you all share!! Start out by saying I bought my first boat 2 summers ago and although I have grew up around and on boats this is the first one I owned. With everybody's help I have replaced all the bellows and gimble bearing...
I have a 2001 mercruiser 3.0 liter and for the first time I did not winterize the boat my self had it " professionaly done" got the boat uncovered yesterday and hooked water up to it and it started right up with no problems. Let it run about 20 min and temp got up to about 170 then noticed...
I have a 2001 bayliner 175 3.0 merc with a 2.0 alpha 1 gen2 outdrive I am currently running a 23 pitch 3 blade aluminum prop and top out at 42 mph GPS 1/2 full of fuel me and wife on boat. Sorry dont have the rpm been working on tach and going to have to replace it. The boat is used for tubing...
Shawnee was just hit hard with tornado. The storm was about thirty miles north of me but I know we have a lot if members in Oklahoma and a lot damage with fatalities and lots of injuries lets just keep these families iN our prayer and thoughts.
