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    Power steering

    I have a 24 ft pontoon boat with a 90 hp mercury out board motor .Is there any way or setup to make the boat steer easier. Like power steering. My old 230 hp I/OMerc cruise had it and it was great. But the pontoon boat steers like a bull dozer.
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    2007 90 HP Mercury 2 stroke oil injected.

    What's a good operating RPM range pushing a 24 ft pontoon boat.and how high should I push it at a steady run. The motor has less then 50 hours on it.
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    question about electric power winches.

    Have any one tried the power winch advertise as the Trac Electric trailer Winch sold by Overton. ? It's rated to pull up to a 24 ft boat and 5,000 lbs on a flat bunk trailer ? I have an old 10,000 lb.one now, but it grinds like crazy.
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    Pontoon boat trailer screw jacks

    What's the recommended weight of a screw jack for a 24 ft pontroon boat that weighs in at around 2500 lbs. plus the trailer.?
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    Plastic door handles(knobs) on Pontoon Boats

    I can't seem to be able to keep the plastic handle on my doors from bending ,Does anyone make a metal handle ?I changed the front door to a pull up to open ,But really don't want to do that to the side doors.
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    re-starting problem.

    Last week after letting the motor sit for a couple of weeks with out running it, I put the water hose on the motor and started it up .Every thing worked normal. I always do this just in case it won't start at the ramp. Any way I took the boat to the ramp and started it up and away we went. I ran...
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    another anchoring questione

    Your cruisin up the bay when you see a spot that you want to anchor in along the shore. Now do you come in and first drop the rear anchor ,or do you drop the front anchor and shut the the motor off and swing around on it.then throw the rear anchor out.? And what do you do if there are boats near...
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    I screwed up

    Friday while I was outside with nothing to do I decided to play with my pontoon boat. Last week I had cut some Diamond plating to wrap around the rear corner's of the boat. Well here's where I Screwed up. I had four of the holes drilled into the sheet metal and I had everything level when I...
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    Proper Engine height on rear of pontoon boat.

    If the boat is sitting in still water ,how do we know wheather the motor needs to be set up or down. What would the distance be from the top of the prop to the water line be?
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    Plastic plugs on toons

    I want to check my toons for water but I have those plastic plugs They screw off .My problem is that they don't want to unscrew. Am I turning them the wrong way.It's a Starcraft.2007.All I'm doing is chewing up the bolt head.When I get them off I'm going replace them with brass plugs.
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    another brake question.

    I have an 06 -5 starr trailer with tandum wheels, brakes on the front axle. The dealer says that I have so sort of electric brakes and that I need a five wire hook up. I had a four wire hook up and now I have a five wire hook up as well. The problem I have is I can't tell if the brakes even...
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    Now here's a problem.

    I have a 24 ft. Bunk trailer for a pontoon boat. I wanted to change the brakes from drum to Disc. The wheels on it are 10 inch and the tire size is 20.5x8x10 .Load rite says that no one makes disc brakes for that small of a wheel. There new trailers use 13 inch wheels. So if I went out and...
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    Lifting boat off of the trailer.

    I was just wondering if I put some 4x4's under the boat after the boat is lifted off of the trailer if that would be OK to use, I don't want to just lay it on the ground.Or maybe get a couple of 6x6.s and cut them up to about a ft. long .There's a edge under the center of the toons that they...
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    replanking bunks

    Yesterday after checking out our pontoon boat after all that rain and high winds we had a few days ago ,I decided to remove one of the lag bolts just to see what I would need, when I put new boards on later this month. Well the bolt only had two threads on it. the rest off the bolt was rusted...
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    New cooker.

    My wife gave me a Cobb Cooker for Christmas. Has anyone tried one of these yet. It looks like it should cook well and be easy to use. I can't wait until warm weather comes so I can try it.
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    Have you ever wondered how.

    I was looking at a new boating catalog today and they have a ladder that fits under the front of a pontoon boat. it shows it opened and closed but it doesn't tell you how to open it and close it. If you want to close it how do you do it. Now if I'm in the boat what do I do.Is there something...
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    Trailer Lights on a Bunk trailer

    I have a large Pontoon boat ,24 ft, and I really don't like the stop light going into the water. Has anyone ever mounted there lights on the back of there Pontoon boat. When the boat is on the trailer the lights would be easier to see. I hate it when I'm behind a boat trailer and there lights...
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    Replacing front door on a Pontoon boat.

    Has anyone ever tried to change the way the front door opens on there boat. Mine just opens like a normal door but I have seen some boats where the door has to be lifted first before it will open .The door sits in a track in the deck. I think Tracker is one of these boats.
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    Using a rear anchor on a Pontoon Boat.

    My Boat is squared off on the back. The motor is covered by the rear deck.So where do I mount the line for the rear anchor.All I have is a welded cleat for taking to boat out of the water at the far end of the toons front and rear.I drilled a hole in the front center of the boatand put in a...
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    Re-boarding Bunk trailer

    Sometime after the weather warms up I'm going to replace all the wood on my bunk trailer. My question is what size are the nut's and bolts. Are they round heads or Hex. How long are they and How many washers do I need. Do I need to sink the heads into the wood from the top. I think I will use...
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