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    Transom/stringers in 24 ft cigarette style boat.

    Doing stringers/transom and some hull repair on my 24 foot excalibur. Plan on using 1708 with vinylester resin for everything, and 3M corebond to bed the transom in. Right now i have stringers out, transom out, grinding is 90% done but found a lot of delamination under the stringers. Going...
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    Raw water AC run with seacock closed.

    So lets say that a raw water cooled air conditioning or refrigeration system was run for a period of time with the sea-**** closed. What kind of damage can this cause to the system? Will it effect the pumps? cause the condenser to rupture? Or will the system just not cool properly?
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    Suzuki DT25 lower unit compatibility?

    What year lower units are compatible on suzuki DT25 motors. I have a 1984 motor runs great and see a couple 1992 and 1997 lower units on craigslist for cheap i was going to pick them up for backup Really appreciate a response on this one
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    1984 suzuki dt25 prop nut torque

    Does anyone have the torque spec for the prop nut on a 1984 dt25
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    TRS steering cable removal.

    Ok how the heck do you take the steering cable off, i see there is the pin at the end of the ram, i removed that, and now the ram is free inside that fixture i can jiggle it a little. I see that there is a nut that looks like a jam nut on the cable side of the ram setup... am i supposed to...
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    Soda blasting?????

    I am trying to strip some paint in my bilge and this is seeming like the only reasonable way. I bought a small sandblasting gun and i just tried it out with bakingsoda and it works quite well, no clogging problems. The only thing is that it takes a rediculous amount of soda to clean an area...
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    Gasket choices 454 MAG

    Im rebuilding a 454 420 mag motor, using 088 rect port heads, standard bore 4.25 cylinders. Can someone school me on gasket choices here, i am going to switch to closed cooling but i am going to do this after i break in the cam so i dont have any unforseen issues with overheating, i will do this...
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    Might have mad a mistake...

    I tried to level off my exhaust housing on an evinrude 40 hp early 90's style motor... it is perfectly level now and i know it will seal but i looked in the manual and is says explicitly not to do this... am i screwed? it says that the driveshaft splines will mess up the crank if you take too...
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    Hull layup schedule??

    Im wondering what kind of schedule should i use for laying up repairs in two areas that i ground out heavily, they were cracks approx. 1 foot long which had an area approx 6 inches of delamination around them. I have completely ground out all delamination and i was going to use 17 oz biaxial...
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    Mercruiser 454 Fuel pump?

    I am building basically a 454 420 magnum motor with bumped compression and a holley 800. I am switching from a gen IV motor to a gen V so i cannot use my old block mounted mechanical fuel pump. Gen V does not have provisions for the mechanical pump... so im wondering what my best option here...
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    Mercruiser 420hp build questions

    Im building a new motor for my boat and i have a few questions. The motor is as follows: 454 block stock bore forged gm crank forged gm rods forged gm pistons mercruiser 420 intake holley 800 carb stainless marine exhaust 088 rectangular port heads mercruser 420 camshaft crane cams number...
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    7.4 454 Repower opinions needed.

    OKAY, so this is my first post and i really need some help and advice here. I have a cigarette style boat that i need to repower. Trans and outdrive are freshly rebuilt. The boat is originally a Mercruiser 330 TRS with merc trans 2. I blew the motor out about 3 weeks ago, originally i...
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