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  1. ccarver80

    Broken Windsheid = Totaled Boat??!

    Need help, took a rock while towing my boat to the lake to the windshield. Its a curved windshield made by Taylor Made, its on a 2004 Crestliner 1600 Super Hawk the insurance company is talking about totaling the boat out... I've literally only made about 2 payments so far on this boat!!! just...
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    Boat now has built in AC .....

    well this happened yesterday....5 miles from the lake to!! ... should have been a sign ... ended up about getting in a fight at the boat ramp.... and breaking my cell phone.... plus didn't catch a dang fish!!... well anyways... gonna call the insurance company tomorrow anyone know how this goes...
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    454 Magnum Not firing up

    Talking with a friend, she took her 91 cobalt mirage with a 454 magnum out to a lake yesterday here's what she said "I'm not sure we took it to fort peck night before last and it started right up we stayed the night on the lake and went to start it the next morning and it just clicked and...
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    04' 75hp 4 stoke first start up issues

    I have a 04' 75hp 4 stroke on a 16' Crestliner 1600 it seems when I go to launch it, it starts fine but dies easily... sometimes I can reverse off the trailer but when I go back to neutral it dies. .. fire it back up kick it into forward and dock it... it dies. .. it will do this till I get it...
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    well... my fishing trip next weekend got canceled...

    So was planning on going out next weekend. .. today plans have changed and it got canceled and not a typical reason either (weather .. wife... ect) ... no ... our outdoor cat decided my boat would be the perfect place to have her babies.... and I don't wanna move them or disrupt them haha...
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    Well this didn't go as planned ....

    Hahha some people's children....... https://youtu.be/lcDbNkiCiFo
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    treat me like a total beginner. ..

    So took the boat out this weekend (2004 16' Crestliner side consol w/ 75hp Yamaha 4 stroke outboard ) It was interesting to say the least. ..I kinda felt like I had no idea what I was doing. .. (first real boat I've owned. . Everything else has been dinky little tin boats with 10hp motors) My...
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    2004 75hp 4 stroke yahmaha high rpm....

    went out today for the first time .... it was reading a good rpm on the way out 5,200 @ WOT..... on the way back in... it was like 9,000!!! but the engine itself didnt sound any differnt.... would this just be the tachometer is probably broke??? the only thing bad that happend out there was i...
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    drift sock help

    I have a 16' Crestliner w/75hp Yamaha 4 stroke brochure says 1000# dry weight which I'm thinking is without the motor I'm a cheap guy... I really don't feel like dropping the $ on a real drift sock and gonna redneck it a bit and use a 5 gallon bucket or maybe even try to engineer a windsock (we...
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    Oil for 2004 75hp 4 stroke

    I need to add just a dash of oil to both the engine and lower unit. For the engine can I just use normal 10w-30 automotive oil?? or is there a certain brand I need? Same question for lower unit? can I just use some 80-90w? or should I stick with "Lower Unit Oil" specifically. I live in a small...
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    04 75hp yamaha temp sensor?

    Just curious if there is a buzzer or alarm of some kind on an 04' Yamaha 4 stroke 75 hp? Thanks
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    Backup for a backup... for a back up...

    so I'm a worry wart.... I have a 2004 16' Crestliner super hawk. with a 04' 75hp Yamaha 4 stroke (the engine dose charge the batteries).. it has a starter battery, and 2- 12 volt batteries up front for the trolling motor...(they are NOT connected to the starter battery in the back) I'm...
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    Throttle cable on 04 16' Crestliner super hawk

    just got this boat from a dealership, got it home and hooked it to the muffs, Engine is a 04 75hp 4 stroke Yamaha If you imagine my throttle control as the upper half of a clock 12 being neutral ... 1 slightly in reverse.... 11 slightly in forward... That being said... Last night I took it...
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    Transducer mounted wrong?

    To me this looks to angled... It's a hummingbird 386ci?? With down imagine
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    When is it safe to "de-winterize"

    So Temps here in North Dakota are unusually warm! A local dam near me the ice is just about gone and should be completely gone by this weekend. I would like to do a test fire in a bucket of water on my boat before taking it out... Temps during the day are 50-65? but looking at the ten day...
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    Little black hose behind shifter spline on lower unit

    It's a 2004 75 hp Yamaha outboard 4 stroke.... little black hose behind the shifter spline when I tries to drop lower unit... ended up twisting the hose enough to get the piece off... now I'm not to sure how to get it back on....
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    03 f75 Yamaha water pump

    Just bought a used boat from a dealer they claim to have run it through there shop. ... it's bugging me if I should still take the lower unit off and check the impeller. ... or maybe just stick it in a barrel and fire it up?
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    Live well question

    I'm really sorry for asking a ton of questions on my 04 crestliner... but it's a 1600 super hawk The live well ...we're does the drain go? Does it just empty into the hull.then the bilge pumps it out? Or is it actually plumbed out of the boat. .. Just curious for next winter thinking about...
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    Draining fuel on 04 crestliner

    Recently purchased a 2004 crestliner superhawk, 2 reasons I want to drain the fuel.... the dealership had no idea how old the fuel was.....and my gas gauge is reading full and I would like to know before hand if that is accurate It has a 17 gal fuel tank in the back... what are my options... ?
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    2003 Yamaha 75hp 4 stroke

    I'm a new owner of this engine on a 2004 Crestliner 1600 super hawk... When storing my boat at my house should I have the engine trimmed up or down? I thought maybe down the the oil in the motor would be leveled back out instead of all to one side? Also were should the oil be on the...
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