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  1. Scott Danforth

    1979 3.0L OMC coil

    The best points come out of Italy. I agree with Matt, stick with points
  2. Scott Danforth

    Marine Power 7.4L Cooling Hose

    Look at the gates molded hose catalog, or call marine power on Monday
  3. Scott Danforth

    Need new plug

    VP manifolds have 1/2" NPT on the bottom and 3/4" on the ends
  4. Scott Danforth

    Closed Circuit Cooling

    Depends on drive. Alpha or Bravo? Water enters the drive, goes thru the pump then thru the HX. Water exits the exhaust Post a serial number and someone can post the specific diagram
  5. Scott Danforth

    Need new plug

    Either 1/2" NPT or 3/4"NPT
  6. Scott Danforth

    How to tell what transducer you have (Hook 5)

    Go to the airmar website and look at the transducers https://www.airmar.com/Catalog/Marine
  7. Scott Danforth

    saltwater 5.0 weak points

    5.0 heads are 58cc with small valves 5.7 heads are 64cc with big valves. The 5.0 motors are not worth that much as they are $300 from u-pull-it yards Cost to rebuild a SBC has gotten stupid lately
  8. Scott Danforth

    saltwater 5.0 weak points

    Even the dry joint manifolds fail in salt water taking out the motor. Intake manifold and heads can rot thru Having twins, my guess this was a moored boat? If you got it cheap enough, throw two 350 short blocks in there and add heat exhangers
  9. Scott Danforth

    Windmill boat bettery charging

    Sail boats use small wind turbines. Basically an alternator with a fan blade, mounted to a bit of aluminum square tube and a triangle of aluminum sheet metal for a tail fin. Usually mounted so they can turn with the wind They are noisy and generally used when the vessels are moored or...
  10. Scott Danforth

    Repairing gas sensor / cables / vent gas hose

  11. Scott Danforth

    Furst boat and first restoration project, have some questions.

    Z axis strength of 3D plastic parts is low. Even the CF reinforced stuff. With 3D printing of aluminum and stainless, things are getting better
  12. Scott Danforth

    Boat age vs financing.

    You already have the Mercruiser stuff. Just bolt it in place of the OMC stuff.
  13. Scott Danforth

    1987 VP 290 cooling problem

    There is no check valve The fitting sits on a hollow shaft that has a rubber seal at top, and O-rings at the bottom and the lower casting You could have debris or growth in the cavity
  14. Scott Danforth

    1987 VP 290 cooling problem

    The fitting at the top is the suspension fork is a common failure point. That little white metal beauty rots in fresh water within 3-5 years. It's an annual maintenance thing in salt water
  15. Scott Danforth

    mercruiser 255 inboard 3.4 volts to coil wire

    If you are only getting 10 volts at the R terminal, either your battery is toast, your battery connections are bad, your battery cables are bad, our your starter solenoid contacts are arced over With good batteries and good cables and a good solenoid, you should be getting 13.4 volts when the...
  16. Scott Danforth

    Commonality with Auto Works

    the backup camera in our 2014 sierra is failing...... along with the HMI module and the dash screen is starting to have dead pixels on the OLED screen.
  17. Scott Danforth

    Sealegs don't lift high enough with Frame/Canopy setup

    might be able to make it longer, not sure how they fold in on themselves.
  18. Scott Danforth

    mercruiser 255 inboard 3.4 volts to coil wire

    verify your wiring, you have something not connected and it sounds like a bad connection somewhere you should have about 8-9 volts on the resistor wire there should be battery voltage on the lead coming from the R terminal on the starter only during cranking did you set the points with a...
  19. Scott Danforth

    2005 5.0 gxi-b belt jumped and wiped out,

    VP just buys Gates and Dayco tensioners. They don't make them
  20. Scott Danforth

    1970s winday day cruise foam core deck

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