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    Mounting battery selector switch ideas

    I have those, but got switch to make it easy... so I thought.
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    Replacing keel roller with boat

    Thanks for the info. New front rollers on order.
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    Mounting battery selector switch ideas

    I have an individual battery box for each battery and its just those black plastic boxes you usually see on campers, no room in those.
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    Replacing keel roller with boat

    I figured jacking the boat up at a single point on the keel might damage the fiberglass.
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    Mounting battery selector switch ideas

    I have 2 batteries. One for trolling and the other for everything else. Boat is a 17'v bottom. I got a battery selector switch incase I ever need to use trolling battery to start motor. There is no place though for me to mount the selector switch. Any suggestions how to rig something up? Is...
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    Replacing keel roller with boat

    I am going to upgrade my 2 forward most keel rollers and brackets. 17' deep V fiberglass boat. How do I go about this with the boat on the trailer. I am assuming I cant use a floor jack to push up the bottom of boat to remove pressure from the current roller. Assuming i do roller at a time...
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    Adding bilge pump

    My boat currently does not have a bilge pump. There is just a trough that runs to the stern where my drain plug is. Can I just set a pump down in that area? Also, don"t want to drill a hole to add drain line so I was thinking of routing the line up and out with the outboard power and steering...
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    New front roller

    I have a v-bottom fiberglass boat with a really small front roller. It is very difficlut to line up and hit it when trying to drive boat up onto the trailer. Looking for suggestions on upgrading the roller. Here are a couple pics.
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    Classic 50 speedo hole in LU

    While doing a water pump rebuild, i was cleaning out the speedo pickup hole in the LU as it was completley clogged. While getting the hole open, a small metal tube about a 1/2" long came out and it had a taper on one end. I cleaned it out and just pushed it back in. There didnt appear to be...
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    Classic 50 completed water pump and questions

    Been wanting to do this and finally got some nice weather to do so. I got a complete OEM water pump kit. I dropped the LU while in neutral so I could check the reverse lock cam position. Rebuild went well I think. Only question is when I installed the new bottom pump part with seal and O...
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    Classic fifty lock cam pic in service manual

    I am planning to drop my lower unit this weekend to change the water pump and my reverse locking cam I know is not currently aligned correctly. I know if in neutral, the top of the cam slope is at 12 oclock facing front of boat. However, i wanted to drop the LU in forward instead of neutral...
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    80's 45HP reverse lock help needed

    Hello, I recently got a classic fifty 45hp outboard sn #0A986630. I am having trouble with the reverse lock. I have the cam in the lower unit, pushrod, adjust bolt, hooks etc. So looks like I have all the parts. It will release when in fwd, but in reverse, it wont stay locked if I pull on it...
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