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    tach signal characteristics

    Can anyone offer me a definitive answer on the nature of the tachometer signal for most outboards?? Take an Evinrude for example, wherein the regulator rectifier supplies the gray wire (tach signal). I'm asking because I don't have an o-scope nor a running engine to test this myself at the...
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    Transom fabrication using Kay-Cel - are seams ok?

    Attempting to minimize product waste - (cough cough ... pain threshold on the wallet). Going to rebuild the transom on my 18ft Holiday using 25lbs Kay-Cel (aka Coosa-like board). My transom is 1.5" thick, measures 74" x 27" roughly. Here's the dilemma ... my local supplier sells only whole...
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    Starcraft 18' Holiday rebuild - 1974

    Re: Starcraft 18' Holiday rebuild - 1974 Yup, I thought the same thing. In fact, my first thought, this was an IO craft that was repowered as an OB. But no evidence of that, plus the nameplate reads "18 HLDY O/B". So then I found the following pic which might have been the original design ...
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    Starcraft 18' Holiday rebuild - 1974

    Do we need another Starcraft restoration thread ?? Sure! Why not... Just picked up this 18' 1974 Holiday. Maybe gone through several PO's. There's recent blue paint on it, but whomever shot it did zero prep! Ah, no worries, it's all got to come off regardless. Here's the nameplate...
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    Warped Prop ??

    Getting a really bad wobble or warped shake coming from the IO while at idle speed or faster. The feedback is really noticeable through the steering wheel and shakes the whole boat. The wobble slows and increases with RPMs, and is to the point where I had to idle power back to the ramp and not...
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    Starting issue (strange symptom)

    I get a starter solenoid chattering, followed by complete dead power??? Then waiting a minute, power is available again. Even things that are supposedly directly connected (such as trim motors) have no power at all. I cycle the battery switch to the 2nd bat, to both, to off, back on, still...
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    Cracked Gimbal/Transom Housing

    I?d like to get some advice here too. I just bought a used 23? cruiser and on my 2nd time out it almost sank! Long story short the Gimbal or Transom house has a huge crack on the port side just inside the inner lip (I would have to train the leg to the right to see it better as the attached pic...
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