Not a bad idea to replace that carrier seal every other impeller. Mine eventually leaked too. I can't complain too much, it held a seal for 14 years and nearly a thousand hard hours of boating.
I am trying to get a buddies 1995 Sea Ray with a 4.3 merc running. It's a crappy story, but year ago they were in a horrible car wreck, and both husband and wife spent a lot of time in the ICU. Both are now disabled.
Last year I went and pulled all the plugs and got the boat into their shed...
The father of one of my son's friends had a bad car wreck and has been in the ICU for nearly 3 weeks. We have a freeze warning tonight, so yesterday I went over to tend to his boat. He has a maybe late 80's or early 90's mercruiser 4.3, with vortec heads. However, unlike my 2004 version of...
Can anyone out there tell me how heavy their Obrien Ricochet kneeboard is?
I bought one used and over time its weight has really bugged me. I can still catch good air on it, but I hate putting the thing in and out of the boat. I feel like maybe the prior owner by leaving it sit outside...
My trim pump is always covered in oil. I though it was the really loose yellow plastic cap, so I gut some teflon tape to build up the threads. I don't think it is the cap any more. I have tried torquing all the fittings and have not found a single one that was lose. Thus, I am stumped. I...
Can iboats please get rid of the splash page wakeboard pic of the person clearly at a cable park and not behind a boat, and with crappy form? :)
The pic is making my back hurt!
So Malibu has been sold to a company in the greater Knoxville TN area, but I hear not MasterCraft. Anyone know who bought them?
Damn good run they had.
When I bought my carb rebuild kit, the store had deals on a distributor cap, rotor and wire combination, so I bought one. I replaced the cap, rotor and plugs. I am now sitting with a 2004 4.3 Merc carb with 155 hours.
My debate is whether to save the new wires for a later day or go ahead...
I cannot get to 10 degrees BTDC.
I just finished rebuilding my carb and reinstalling it on the boat. Thus, I am trying to do the timing, idle, and mixture.
I have the mixture screw at 1.5 turns out from fully seated.
I put the boat in base timing mode from running a wire from the...
I am two screws in and have messed up. I stripped the screws holding the choke housing. I have craftsman screwdrivers and dewalt tips for my other screw driver. Tip sure seemed to fit good, but the screw metal gave away before the screw turned.
Not a good omen for my first rebuild.
Now I...
A wider ski is getting appealing to this old guy. I also think it would be nice to have around for the occasional other adult that wants to try to slalom again. The O'Brien Sequence has caught my eye because the description says you can run the course with it, and I probably revisit a slalom...
