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  1. wooky30014

    Need help IDing my first boat

    Camo is working REAL well LOL
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    Trust the dealer?

    Back quite a few years ago my Uncle rigged a 35hp Merc on a 12ft Sears V-hull and mounted the steering and throttle lever on the front seat. He had to sit on the floor in order to drive it and although I didn't see this contraption run he told me it scared the :poop::poop: outta him. My Cousins...
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    New Boat For Christmas

    Well boyz an' gurlz, the day has come, Riff Raft is running under her own power. I took a video but the quality isn't so hot (lost some in the transfer ???) dunno, this technology stuff is beyond me, BUT she IS running. I've got a few more 'justments to be made but those will need to be done in...
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    New Boat For Christmas

    Has been a wee bit nippily and breezy out last couple of days but here is what I scored on a roadtrip earlier today, yes, some assembly required
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    New Boat For Christmas

    I believe I've come up with a Redneck Engineered fix that will work on the fuel delivery issue. I took the metal valves along with the rubber sleeves that were around them (about the only part of the rubber that was any good and not cracked) and force fit them into one of the new and...
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    New Boat For Christmas

    I've got the gagger (choke) working now with a new pot installed. I think I've got a weak battery or (hopefully not) a weak starter, sometimes the engine doesn't want to spin over like it should. I've cleaned all the connections and applied some dielectric grease, that helped a little bit...
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    New Boat For Christmas

    Yeah Capbill, it seems though that every time I get something done or fixed something ELSE pops up, no worries though, at least I'll have the peace of mind that it's ALL good, like the choke pot. Pushing in on the key when on does nothing, jumping it with a wire caused the wire to weld to the...
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    New Boat For Christmas

    Here's a pic of the installed Doel-Fins, they should help get her up on plane a bit easier. I was looking the other day from down the hill behind Riff Raft and saw that she has a relatively flat bottom at the stern, I thought she had a little more ov a "V" back there. Something else I noticed a...
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    New Boat For Christmas

    I've got the new cables installed and set-up (I think 🤔) I went to spin her over and would go about a third of a turn and stop, hit again and another third turn and stop, plugs out she'd spin freely. Gonna go clean all the engine connections while the battery charges up again (did a charge up...
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    New Boat For Christmas

    Been sitting here listening to the rain fall and the thunder booming pondering 🤔 what to do about the reboarding ladder hanging off the side, EUREKA 💡I'll get a couple of those quick-disconnect pins and hang it inside while on the trailer so it won't interfere with the guide poles I am going to...
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    1989 85 HP Force neutral safety switch help!

    🖖 I hope to, my Dad lived to be 88 and was still active in his woodshop behind his house. A gut infection took him out
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    New Boat For Christmas

    Having to slow down here a bit, Mother Nature sez so 🌧️ 🌩️ ⛈️ so's I will. Doing all what I did the last few days to the shift / throttle cables was for naught, while having little to no play in one that I had here and had covered cracks in the sheathing with shrink tubing there were new crack...
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    1989 85 HP Force neutral safety switch help!

    Thanks Jerry. I'll get to that in the next few days, it's raining ⛈️ and booming 🌩️ outside today and I noticed after routing the cable back in place one had developed even more cracks in the red sheathing 🙁 By the time I get finished with fixing up my new 61yo boat she'll be all but brand new...
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    1989 85 HP Force neutral safety switch help!

    Knocking a little dust off of this one but yes those switches DO go bad sometimes. The 55hp Chrysler my Dad owned back in the 70s went bad and was replaced. A fellow Boater back in the same time frame had a "no starter" issue at the launch ramp / dock, Dad found and jumped their switch and it...
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    2022 Boating Season - help for first time boat buyers

    This is a true fact on most any hobby or activity that anyone gets involved in / with. While I am concerned with the higher gas prices it won't stop me from what I like to do, especially with my new water toy Don't know how to do multi-quotes / replies here but with what Grub54891 said I...
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    Lonestar El Dorado Steering Cable Length

    I'm not gonna steer you wrong 😃 with the measurement calculations I did years ago on a 57 LoneStar Runabout but here is what I looked up and got from Teleflex, they were the outfit I bought said cable and helm 30 years ago (sadly, that boat was sold long ago) New Installation: Measure cable...
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    Lonestar El Dorado Steering Cable Length

    Back in that day it was much more common to find the cable / pulley steering systems and not single cable setups. As Bondo said, look on steering cable pages and get how to measure
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    Rec gas prices???

    I would say that it's probably been looked at and found to be too far out there, for now, PLUS the Big Oil would lose if it was developed as an alternative fuel
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    Rec gas prices???

    I'd think that hydrogen storage would be similar to propane and drop your refuel hose in the nearest lake or river maybe
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    Trying to figure out what kind of boat i have

    Ummm, she's a1961 (so I was told) Albright 20ft cabin cruiser. "number soup of yer 1st post" ???
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