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  1. Scott Danforth

    I/O (Sterndrive) Conversion to Outboards

  2. Scott Danforth

    I/O (Sterndrive) Conversion to Outboards

    I would grind the gel off where you want the adhesive
  3. Scott Danforth

    1962 Chris Craft Holiday 20’ bucket list resto

    Sam, I made aluminum vent plenums for my boat out of thin aluminum sheet that I folded on the bench, riveted together and then sealed with aluminum HVAC duct to make a sharp turn. maybe you can do something like that with one of the standard cobra style 90 degree elbows.
  4. Scott Danforth

    I/O (Sterndrive) Conversion to Outboards

    Humanity is doomed LOL
  5. Scott Danforth

    New Stuff on Vehicles likes/dislikes

    My first metallurgy class in college was when programmable graphing calculators first came out. I knew everyone with them had programmed all the formulas that we were to derive for mid terms. On the bottom of the mid term, I wrote "everyone with a graphing calculator will have aced this test...
  6. Scott Danforth

    New Stuff on Vehicles likes/dislikes

    AI will be the downfall of civilization, people will stop the think for themselves
  7. Scott Danforth

    New Stuff on Vehicles likes/dislikes

    Yet when I ask any of the AI search engines a question, the answer is inaccurate, or doesn't pertain to the question asked. Yes AI is coming No I'm not impressed James Cameron had it right....On August 29th Skynet became aware
  8. Scott Danforth

    Brake based limited slip differentials

    Limited slip diffs use a spring pack and clutches in the diff. Some clutches such as the getrag units are internal and external discs. Some are just plates against the spider gears. The Eaton unit uses two flyweights that fling out and catch a pawl when one side starts to slip (they often...
  9. Scott Danforth

    Thermostat Orientation

    Spring goes down
  10. Scott Danforth

    Winterizing, use E-0 stabilized gas or install shut off valve and run carb out of fuel?

    Im a cheap guy. I run E10 pump swill, no stabilizer in pretty much everything I do not fog. I quit fogging nearly 30 years ago. I get about a year before the fuel goes bad. I just took the last of the fuel out of the boat and ran it in the daily whip, truck and lawn mower this past month as...
  11. Scott Danforth

    New Stuff on Vehicles likes/dislikes

    Don't airplane motors still need 2 ignition systems?
  12. Scott Danforth

    Gonna need to pull my Alpha outdrive, no water flow.Thinking its clogged

    if the tube clogged, it most likely took out the water pump impeller
  13. Scott Danforth

    Question about paint chips in fuel system

    standard socket with OD turned down.
  14. Scott Danforth

    Bench/Sunpad vs Doghouse for Engine Servicing (pic included)

    the sunpad material is ripping because the vinyl is past its life expectancy a remote oil filter head will help with filter access. Plugs are a once every 10 years sort of thing winterizing drain plugs and filters are the yearly service items.
  15. Scott Danforth

    Question about paint chips in fuel system

    do a compression check. yes injectors can be cleaned if you can get the spark arrestor off, you can get the injectors off.
  16. Scott Danforth

    I/O (Sterndrive) Conversion to Outboards

    Beer and Whiskey does not go on the budget. those are a measure of time.
  17. Scott Danforth

    New Stuff on Vehicles likes/dislikes

    to quote my great grandfather when he was 100. If you didnt know your age, how old would you be? He said he woke up at 160 and went to bed at 16.... He also mentioned that Washington had twice as many horses arses as there were horses to carry them. Im not quite there on both ends..... but...
  18. Scott Danforth

    New Stuff on Vehicles likes/dislikes

  19. Scott Danforth

    New Stuff on Vehicles likes/dislikes

    in the 70's the vehicle manual explained servicing the points, adjusting valves and checking the fluids. todays vehicle manuals tell you not to lick the windows and drink the battery fluid. yet there is a 45 page section on the infotainment section and how you can sync up your blue tooth phone
  20. Scott Danforth

    New Stuff on Vehicles likes/dislikes

    the world went down hill when shop classes quit being mandatory
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