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  1. paulrfrancisco

    Battery question

    I have a 30' Cruisers Inc with twin 454's. I believe that my starting batteries are "deep cycle" type batteries. Would it be safe to say that barring any other mechanical or electrical problems, that these types of batteries will not allow my starter to turn these motors over as "briskly" as...
  2. paulrfrancisco

    Replacing my Radar unit

    Does anyone have any opinions on what product is the most user freindly to operate of the major products, Raymarine, Furuno, JRC, SIMRAD, Si-Tek.<br /><br />My Raytheon CRT display was water damaged and I will be replacing the whole system. I'm looking for 4kw power, 7" display, with 24"...
  3. paulrfrancisco

    Question re: Mercruiser 454

    This weekend I fired up the engines on my 30' Cruisers. They are 300hp 7.4L 454ci FWC MercCruisers. I really have 2 questions. 1. On the first engine, after the fogging oil burned off, the engine continued to emit a white smoke. I ran the engine about 10 minutes, enough to bring it up to...
  4. paulrfrancisco

    Fiberglass Oxidation

    This spring I tackled the task of polishing my severely oxidized marroon colored boat that was pink due to the oxidation. After researching this site for recomendations, I came across the postings from MARK24. In his postings, he, or others participating in that thread, recommended to use 400...
  5. paulrfrancisco

    Pull Start

    does anyone have a proceedure for replacing the spring in a pull starter for a 1980 4.5 Evinrude outboard... Got it apart, but just cannot seem to get it wound up properly to have good tension on the rewind...I also hear a lot of scraping inside the unit now..
  6. paulrfrancisco

    4.5hp 1980 Evinrude outboard

    Does anyone have information on how to adjust the idle on this motor? The "rich/Lean" adjuster works fine and the throttle handle operates fine, however the knob at the end of the throttle that allows you to adjust the idle speed doesn't seem to do anything. Could it be broken? How can I tell...
  7. paulrfrancisco

    1980 4.5hp Evinrude outboard

    I recently bought this outboad motor off of ebay and when it arived, the pull rope recoil starter was not working... first when you pulled the rope, the gear did not engage the flywheel and also the rope did not recoil. I look around on Iboats for a new recoil starter, but all they have listed...
  8. paulrfrancisco

    4.5 hp Evinrude outboard

    Just bought a 1980 4 1/2 hp Evinrude outboard off of EBAY... should be received in a day or 2 and I was wondering what the gas/oil ratio should be for that engine... Anyone have any idea?<br /><br />Thank you.<br />Paul
  9. paulrfrancisco

    454 hard starting

    I have Cruisers Inc. with twin 7.4L 300hp yr 1990, and each of them is quite hard starting. When they are cold, both of them have to be cranked and pumped significantly to get them started, and even when they are warm, they both are very tempermental.. One is less worse than the other when...
  10. paulrfrancisco

    duoprop vs reg. prop

    The Duo prop wil provide better bite out of the hole and less cavitation when cornering. It would depend on what you plan on doing with the boat... if you are pulling skiers and driving really agressivly, then go with the duo prop.. it would likely be significantly more money however...
  11. paulrfrancisco

    Cavatation

    I have a 30' Cruisers with twin 7.4L/ bravo I drives... and with the drives buried and the trim tabs all the way down, I have a problem when coming out of the hole... especially when trying to go realativly conservative.. The drives lose bite and cavatate making the engines difficult to keep...
  12. paulrfrancisco

    Taylor Made round hatches

    I have a 1990 30' Cruisers and the topside hatches are round taylor made brand. On one of them I have a stripped hinge bolt.. I am not able to find anything on the Taylormade web site that would repair it.. does anyone have any ideas?<br /><br />Paul
  13. paulrfrancisco

    Gear Lube leak

    I have a 1990 Cruisers with twin 7.4L and BravoI drives.. the Gear lube resovoir on the starboard engine is always going low... There does not seem to be a leak from the resovoir or from the hose from the resovoir, however there is gear lube in the bilge.. Any thoughts on how this could be...
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