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This weekend I purchased a project boat, it is an 88 Chris Craft Limited 245. I am not finding a drain plug on the transom of this boat. The boat is in fairly rough shape - sat on a trailer in a storage lot for a couple years, but surprisingly the bilge is dry. The rain water has to drain...
About 3 weeks ago I bought a seized 88 Mariner 5hp outboard. The block is yamaha stamped and I had rebuilt another 84 mariner/yamaha 5hp that came with a donor motor and had a bunch of donor parts laying around and figured I would give it a go at trying to get the seized motor running since...
Hi All,
I have a 1984 Mariner 5C made by Yamaha. I bought the motor used in 2010. It was previously on a sailboat and left in salt water - it was rough and cobbled together from at least a couple motors (different s/n on block and clamp and lower unit is a spare from yet another 5C). Before...
Hello all - first time poster.
I have a 1976 SeaRay 180 i/0 with a Mercruiser 165 L6 250ci engine. I bought the boat two years ago as a project and it has been a big one. After a lot more dollars and work than planned I have pretty well restored it and it is on the water.
The boat runs...
