If you wanted to flush the carb out with anything, flush it with true fuel which because of how it’s made, lasts much longer than regular gas. It’s Alkylate fuel.
Your stringers are missing. Probably someone’s attempt at adding structure on a redo. you need to bed and tab in stringers. Full gut job as there’s nothing holding your boat together
Brand on a 39 year old boat won’t matter, even if it was top of the line in 1985 that won’t translate to any better condition since it’s known that boats rot from the inside out
Distilled means distilled. Boiled and steam collected, and condensed. Its not expensive at the grocery store… that said I’m sure tap water has been used in a battery or 2 through the years
I/O boats are are never easy to work on. The stringer drive transfers the thrust directly to the stringers. It doesn’t put much pressure on the transom under way, so the mounts are tied to the stringers. You can’t change that. And you need to make sure that the stringers are solid. The black...
here in Ny. I don’t think the lakes are freezing too fast. Kind of makes me want to take a winter lap around the small local one. But I’d have to drive an hour in the opposite direction to pick up the boat from inside winter storage
My mom just fell for one. But it didn’t end as pleasant. The scammers took remote control of her computer and compromised the entire windows install.. she had to reset passwords and notify everyone what happened.. she’s picking up a new computer from me this weekend, which has Bit Defender and...
1989 Maxum is also Bayliners cousin. Personally I would assess the cost and weigh the dump fee and selling trailer to recover your cost.. $10-20k into a boat that is 34 years old doesn’t make that much sense when you could save the same money. and buy a newer boat in the 2-3 years of nights...
Everything online says 150hp rating so it should be as good as it can be. If the decal on the boat itself is higher, if 150hp is within 75% of that your good to go. If it’s 50% or under your going to notice
I have a 1971 Offshore V18 that has to sit outside ( Holiday 14 gets inside storage ) . I built a triangle support system that sits ontop of the gunnels, and kind of locks in. Secured with a few zip ties and the cover itself. I have supports that go to the floor as well. It never collects anything
