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    Installing Pedestal Seats in a Key West, Key Largo or Palm Beach CC

    Any suggestions/hints/warnings about installing pedestal seats in the deck of a CC, probably near the cooler seat in front of the console?
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    1998 Merc 150 Stiff Steering

    Sorta what I was figuring. For now, I have turned the steering all the way to where almost all of the "rods" are out of the tubes. Yes, they had some old, hardened grease on them, giving an idea what's inside the tubes. But, for now I just cleaned those off with some light oil, and the...
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    1998 Merc 150 Stiff Steering

    This is how mine is. One appears to be the Tilt Tube and one appears to be the Steering Tube. That brush is designed for cleaning the inside of the tube, but I've shotgun brushes and cleaning pads and rolled up sandpaper on flexible cable used for that, too. Also, it does not appear that they...
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    1998 Merc 150 Stiff Steering

    Maybe just miscommunicating again, but I am not concerned about "cables". What I am talking about is the steering "rods" inside the steering "tubes" on the front of the OB. Everywhere I look on the internet where it is talking about routine steering maintenance, it says to pull those rods out...
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    1998 Merc 150 Stiff Steering

    Agree. There are two steering tubes on my OB. But, they are configured just like the single-tube ones on the videos. I don't understand why you cannot pull those rods out, clean them and the tubes, grease and reassemble. unless we were just not communicating. I am waiting a call from the...
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    1998 Merc 150 Stiff Steering

    Here's another video cleaning and greasing the steering tube and rod:
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    1998 Merc 150 Stiff Steering

    I agree we were on different pages. Had I had the proper wording handy when I took it in for service, I would have said that I want them to pull the steering rod out of the tube, clean the old grease off the rod and out of the tube, and apply new grease. An issue I had in trying to do that...
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    1998 Merc 150 Stiff Steering

    Not being a marine mechanic, I will probably not say this articulately. The steering on my Merc 150 OB steering is stiff, and as part of routine maintenance, I ask my "dealer" to clean the old grease out and re-lube it, like I've seen on the Internet. Like this: But, and again I won't say...
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    Outboard Motors Corporation

    I will take a picture. This is not it, but like it: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ejUAAOSwFn9ff0tn/s-l1600.jpg When I was 10-ish, circa 1960, our mom would rent a house on the south shore of Clear Lake, in Iowa, one week in the summer. It was next to Hansen's Marine at PM Park, and my...
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    Outboard Motors Corporation

    A stab in the dark, I just googled that it is an Evinrude Sportwin Model 4156, manufactured by Outboard Motors Corporation. & it appears to be a 1936. Thanks for the help!
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    Outboard Motors Corporation

    Anyone want to take a stab at an outboard serial number? Outboard Motors Corporation 4156-01878 It is a very-old, very small outboard that my Mom got for me at Clear Lake, IA around 1960. It was old then. Just curious . . . I think I'll make it the mail box post at our house on Table Rock Lake.
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    Pontoon Tube Reconditioning Ideas Needed

    Even Tom Neale's attempt to address my concern in BOATUS Magazine last year raised more concern, more issues that need to be dealt with, so I still have not determined what would be the best type of boat to leave in saltwater for 3 to 6 months each year.
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    Bay Boat Seating

    In a small, 16-18' CC, like a Palm Beach, Key West or Key Largo, can you install pedestal seats, so that you have more than the seat behind and in front of the console? &, I notice some for sale in salt water have anti-fouling paint and some do not. What's up with that?
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    Jet Docks

    I'll post this here so that search engines can find it. We have had a Jet Dock (assembled cubes) for our jet ski(s) for several years. I have seen forums where they brag about the ability to reconfigure them, which we want to do. I'm here to say that it is not an easy thing if your jet dock...
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    Altering a Bass Boat

    Has anyone here reconfigured a bass boat by altering the front and/or rear fishing decks, and putting in seats?
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    New-to-Us Waverunner Questions

    Since I'm already here, I thought I'd try here first, before finding a Yamaha forum if I need to. We just got a high-hour, 2015 V1 Sport that's been taken care of and is in good condition. Before season, I want to do all maintenance that might need to be done like it has never been done, just...
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    Pontoon Tube Reconditioning Ideas Needed

    This is for a seasonal-used pontoon in Lemon Bay (saltwater), FL. Getting water in the toons, and they are pitted. 1. Please recommend drain plugs that I can install at the back, lower toons. Any non-weld ones? 2. Same for small leak repair. Aluminum putty? JB Marine Weld? Something...
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    150 Trim and Tilt Question

    1997 150 OS Boat is on a lift. Trim and tilt is "struggling". When on the lift, it seems to be working, both up and down, but not under power on the lake. When it is activated while on the lake, all the gauge needles peg out. Nice older boat . . . not used much . . . and gets periodic...
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    Dead Battery

    Not specific to pontoons, but . . . the last two times we have gone to our pontoon, the battery has been dead. It never has been before, and the only thing I might have done is that after a rain, I had wiped everything down with a towel. I'm thinking I might have tripped one of the toggle...
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    '97 Merc 50 HP Just Stops Running

    I'm just trying to get some ideas . . . maybe someone else has had this problem. That's stupid . . . of course someone, some time has had this problem. :rolleyes: Our '97 Merc 50 HP 2-stroke has always run just fine. But, now it just stops running without warning. There does not seem to be...
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