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    1987 Power Play XLT-185 - floors, stringers, and upholstery

    I swapped my 21P cleaver to a 19P Laser II yesterday and so far I like it. The boat get up to about 4600 RPM now and gets out of the hole better. I'll just keep the 21P cleaver on the shelf for when I get the Vortec 383 done. 😎 Happy 4th weekend folks!
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    1968 Glastron Transom question

    In my boat there was a bulkhead that was not glassed in - just tabbed in with glass but the middle was just gelcoat over wood. Of course it was super rotten. You may have no glass in the area of the transom you're looking at. You could lay some glass over it to add strength, but if you have any...
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    1996 Century Boats 1800 Center Console Refit and Modernization

    Deliverance....hey...that's my neck of the woods! :cool:
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    '65 Lyn Craft Seabreeze 1500 Sport Runabout

    Nice, Buck. I'm sure you're glad to see it a uniform color!
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    1987 Power Play XLT-185 - floors, stringers, and upholstery

    Late to post this, but it's been a helluva week. I got the engine dressed, changed the needle valve, seat, and idle air tubes in the QJ carb, and got it fired up and running on muffs Sunday around lunch, then we headed out to the river. The boat performed great. It was a huge weight off my...
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    1995 7.4 Thunderbolt starting

    Help learn a guy something who has little carb experience... Is the thought here to give it as much air as possible to start on the extra fuel that's in there from the flooded shut-off? The accelerator pump adding a squirt of fuel doesn't make it just that much more rich? And, is the idea to...
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    4000ft Above Sea Level Carb Settings 4.3 Merc

    Try posting on the forums at Cliffs High Performance. Cliff Ruggles posts frequently hand he may be able to help guide you. He also carries high quality QJ parts.
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    Fiberglass repair on jet boat bottom

    1708 is going to build a lot of thickness fast and the edges are going to be a lot more work to fair in. Also, if you sand down into the biaxial strands, you're compromising the strength of the 1708, negating the need to use it. I would probably use CSM to build up then gelcoat, wet sand, and...
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    Thunderbolt IV issue?

    The exhaust elbow should be getting all that hot during operation, and the TB IV should have phenolic standoffs that further thermally isolate the unit from heat. Not saying your TB IV isn't the problem...just that it shouldn't be seeing all that much heat, in reality.
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    Merc 350 sputters, dies, won't restart after heating up

    Cool. I'm just saying it's a thing since you had never heard of it. We're not all marine mechanics with decades of experience who know all the marine lingo yet...many of us who are willing to tinker on our boat engines have automotive backgrounds, so we use the terms we know, and are...
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    1979 Glastron Carlson CV-23 restoration

    My brother has a CV-19 with the 455 / berkeley combo but the furthest he's gotten on it is pulling the engine and jet pump, and is about halfway through the gutting process on the hull. He's been too busy to touch it for about a year. But, if interested, send me your contact info in a private...
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    1987 Power Play XLT-185 - floors, stringers, and upholstery

    Re-hung the engine tonight. Too hot to do anything else. I plan to have it running on muffs no later than Sunday evening.
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    1987 Power Play XLT-185 - floors, stringers, and upholstery

    @Mad Props , good eye, but no plans for it. It's just left over from all the sapele I bought for the restoration. Might be able to remake some trim pieces out of it if I break one on the boat.
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    1987 Power Play XLT-185 - floors, stringers, and upholstery

    Times, they are a-changing. At least they were on the right path!
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    1987 Power Play XLT-185 - floors, stringers, and upholstery

    Thanks! I wish the stand was mine, but a friend built it and I'm just borrowing it. I told him he needed take me one when he accumulates enough drops to do so. If it had casters it would be complete.
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    1987 Power Play XLT-185 - floors, stringers, and upholstery

    Other gasket was delivered today, so I took pictures while my 12-year-old daughter put the even side together.
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    1987 Power Play XLT-185 - floors, stringers, and upholstery

    Amazon only delivered one head gasket today...so only one head got put on. I decided to put some paint on my timing tab...it's been kind of hard to see the last few times I've set/checked the timing.
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    Need some recommendations for gelcoat chip repair

    I'm sure one of the more knowledgeable folks will come along shortly, but I'm working on gelcoat repairs on my boat as well, for the first time. To me, color matching seems to be the hardest part. I bought my my materials from US Composites - natural (no tint) unwaxed gelcoat, wax additive...
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    1987 Power Play XLT-185 - floors, stringers, and upholstery

    Cylinder heads back from the shop - fresh surfaces, no cracks. Had 2 bad intake valves and they had to re-cut those two seats as well, but now it seals up like it should. Pics below are of the #7 intake valve and how far it got stretched out.
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    Merc 350 sputters, dies, won't restart after heating up

    Common in import automotive. Same thing...just often times resembles a sock, so that's what it gets called.
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