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    My Winter Project

    In case you missed my last post about Stainless Steel, I had a hinge break on my sunpad/engine cover. My Brother is welding the hinge, but I took the vinyl sunpad, which is also the back to the bench seat in the rear, off. This is a heavy composite that is covered by the vinyl and foam. The...
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    What type of Stainless Steel is used?

    I have a 2000 Chris-Craft with a sunpad engine cover, and the Cradle & Pin hinge set-up had the pin portion shear off. I asked Chris-Craft, and they said they could order a set for arond $300. I asked my brother, who works at an aircraft repair shop, and he said he can have it welded, and...
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    Would like to know how this happened?

    I had to share this story, from our road trip. So we were on our way back from a vacation up north, and almost home. After a state trooper passes us, we come upon firetrucks and police blocking the lanes of traffic going the opposite direction. Right behind them was a minivan with an empty...
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    Spring Tune-Up

    1) While installing new plugs and wires on my boat today, I replaced the wires with the Factory Volvo wires, which had to be ordered. When removing the old wires, I compare the new with the old, and the old wires are 8mm wires, and the new factory wires are only 7mm. This may be too much info...
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    Tach reads wrong at start-up

    I have a 2000 Chris-Craft with a Volvo 5.0 GI and SX-M drive. When i start the engine, the tach will read over 2,000 RPM, but when I tap the tach, it will jump up to around 3500, then tap again, and it goes to where the engine is idling. Then it is fine until i shutdown, then it occasionally...
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