While examining my 45.7' spruce hollow mast I found these weird bracket connected to each other on the top of my one-and-only back-stay. Because the clevis pins in these two weird brackets are only 5/16" wide, while the other pin on top of the back-stay is 1/2" and the pin in the turnbuckle is...
I want to add an inner forstay to a 43' hollow wooden mast. I've included two photos. One is of westmarine.com mast hound and another is of one I found on internet (http://yachtvalhalla.net/articles/forestay/forestay.html) that some guy found in a bucket. I need to know if the mast hound...
My Perkins 4-108 ignition switch froze up and wouldn't allow the key to turn. So I went to West Marine and bought their 4-way ignition starter switch, which was completely different from the original Lucas 6-way switch that was on there. Problem is the new ignition switch didn't have any...
I have just purchased two 18 w. solar panels and a 10 amp controller that I need to hook up to two separate battery banks (starter and house) that each consist of two 6 volt batteries in series.
My question is: How do I hook up the controller to two separate battery banks of equal power? Can I...
I have two identical 1976 4 hp Evinrude outboards. One runs cool and one runs very hot. After I shut it down the cool one I can remove the spark plugs with bare fingers after loosening them with a wrench. On the hot one however, the spark plugs get so hot that I either have to wait a long time...
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I need to repair a broken shift arm on my 58 Evinrude 7.5 outboard. I'll enclose a picture tomarrow to show exactly what is going on, but for now I'll just say that it broke close by where the greese fitting is. The shifting arm looks a little pourous so I imagine it will be difficult...
I have a 1958 7.5 HP Evinrude long shaft that didn't run and had the old fasion dual gas line when I got it. Because it had compression and spark and I didn't have the original dual line gas tank, I converted the old style two hose system to a new one hose gas line the way they tell you how to...
Hi, I have a 1969 25' Cal sailboat that drains all the water from the fore deck of the cockpit into the inside of the boat, ending in the keel. The drain holes do have shut off valves, but that would allow the water to fill up in the **** pit, which I would prefer not to allow considering the...
Almost got this sucker running, it even ran a couple seconds, until the pull starter spring broke. Here is a picture of what I need. Anybody have a used one? Or know where I can buy a new one?
thanks again
Strangest thing in the world is happening. After pulling the whole magneto thingy apart and putting it all back together, I can't get the rope puller to engage the crank shaft when I pull the rope. I'm wondering if there was some sort of spacer that went up under the magneto cover that I...
Hi, I need to know how to set the points and timing on my old Johnson TD20 5 hp outboard. It is year 1945-49. It uses the older type coil system different from any of the others. It has two sets of points which I think I've adjusted okay to .020 (though I'm not sure I did it correctly), and now...
