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  1. tpenfield

    O'Day Mariner Sailboat Restoration

    I've been working from home today, as I needed to sign for my package delivery (as per my other thread about the Mercruisers), so every couple of hours I go out to the garage and spend a few minutes trying to 'flip' the boat. I have got the thing slightly past vertical, but it is still putting...
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    Closed Cooling System on Port Engine Running Hot(ter)

    I got a package today :) :) :) Got to load it up to my laptop and get ready to test it out. It came with the special cable for Windows 10, which is extra long and I have a USB extender cable. My hopes are that I can have the laptop reach the helm so I can 'record' some of the stats while...
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    O'Day Mariner Sailboat Restoration

    Idea Du Jour . . . OK, morning cup of coffee underway and I have an idea on how to control any wild reaction that may occur as the boat goes past vertical. I currently have a strap that attaches to the port side winch and leads underneath the boat up to the starboard side to do the lifting as...
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    O'Day Mariner Sailboat Restoration

    Quick update: I was able to get the stern strap back on the roller and re-configured. I brought the boat up to nearly vertical and it is definitely bottomed out on the grage floor. As I go past vertical, I'm sure the boat will raise up again, but my concern is it having a somewhat wild reaction...
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    O'Day Mariner Sailboat Restoration

    AD - good observation . . . not sure which way you meant for the rotation, but . . . the stern strap eventually walked off of the roller. I tried to save it, but to no avail. The good news is that the stern dropped down when the strap went off of the roller and is partially resting on the keel...
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    O'Day Mariner Sailboat Restoration

    I cleaned the garage up a bit so that I have clear space under the boat. Also put the keel back in the dolly so I can move it around . . . still needs antifouling paint. I spent much of the morning going to HD and HF to get some 'stuff' . . . My plan is to build a sling that can rotate...
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    O'Day Mariner Sailboat Restoration

    UPDATE: It has been a while since I have worked on the sailboat . . . I was supposed to play in a golf tournament today (Wednesday) but the foursome got cancelled, so I have a 'free' day and thought that I would get back to the restoration work on the sailboat. After the winter of trying to...
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    Closed Cooling System on Port Engine Running Hot(ter)

    Here are a couple pictures of the plugs. I did not take them all out, since it was pretty obvious once I removed a few. I also removed one of the starboard engine plugs just for comparison Here is the #1 Port versus the #2 starboard (both outboard plugs . . . easy to reach :) The starboard...
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    Can I leave my boat in shallow water through low tide?

    Should be fine as Chris has described . . . Here is my unplanned attempt at doing that sort of thing :)
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    Closed Cooling System on Port Engine Running Hot(ter)

    AD - I found some better diagrams and put the temps on them. Hopefully, these will be more clear. All ideas welcome . . . First the starboard engine: . . . Here is the Port Engine: It seems like the source of the temperature rise is in the engine block/heads as the temp rise through the...
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    Closed Cooling System on Port Engine Running Hot(ter)

    Here are my numbers from last week with a bit more annotation. I *think* the problem is where I circled in Red . . . :noidea: It looks like both H.E.'s are taking a lot of heat out of the coolant, bringing the coolant down to the same temperature as the exiting sea water, so it could not take...
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    Bilge pump wiring question

    It sounds like you can use the wiring that is already in place. Here is a picture that I Googled of what you probably have. . . If you are just replacing the pump, then you will just be connecting to the existing wiring at the pump.
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    Closed Cooling System on Port Engine Running Hot(ter)

    Morning Update: Another cloudy day, so I'll have some more time to work on the engines. Chris - I have some clamps that may be useful in restricting the flow of sea water through the system. I could also use the clamps to restrict the coolant side to see which better correlates to the temps...
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    Closed Cooling System on Port Engine Running Hot(ter)

    UPDATE: I worked on the boat for the morning, checked the temperatures after warmup and did a few things. Then I took the boat out this afternoon, as the seas were flat. I took a bunch of temperature readings and the port engine is definitely running about 20 degrees hotter than the starboard...
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    2013 Chaparral 206 SSI Fuel Gauge not working

    Actually, the picture that you posted is the inner workings of the sender. If you take the entire sender out, it should look something like this . . . And you would slide the dark colored cylinder (which is the float) up and down the tube to change the resistance. I put a similar sensor...
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    Ignition kill switch

    pictures are kind of dark . . . so I lighten it for you . . . Looks pretty standard.
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    Closed Cooling System on Port Engine Running Hot(ter)

    A Quick update and some photos ('cuz folks like photos, right ?) I removed the heavy scaling chunks and then put liberal amounts of 'Kaboom' down through the HE. Digging a bit deeper into the cooling system, I took the thermostat housing off to replace the thermostat. I also checked...
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    Does anyone store a boat in a garage? How do you make it fit?

    Fits perfectly . . . see . . .
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    Closed Cooling System on Port Engine Running Hot(ter)

    Here are some pics I took of the work on the heat exchanger . . . draining the AF down and removing the heat exhanger was not to difficult Here are the endcaps removed. I flushed both sides of the exchanger, but there really was not anything in there.
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    Closed Cooling System on Port Engine Running Hot(ter)

    I am on the 4th year of my (2) closed cooling systems on my twin Merc 7.4 LX MPI engines. They are the FULL version of closed cooling, so they do the block and the manifolds. I added them to 16 year old 740 hour 'fresh water only' engines when I bought the boat up over at Lake Winnipesaukee in...
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