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  1. dwco5051

    Just a few guestions

    You are correct. My fingers were typing faster then my brain.
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    Just a few guestions

    VINs did not start being issued on boats until 1972. If you have the original Startcraft id on the plate perhaps someone on here can decipher it from the serial number.
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    Low Oil Pressure

    Is this a new problem or has it done since you have had the boat? I am thinking the possibility could be the oil level in the oil pan changing due to both de-acceleration and the motor angle changing as you come off plane. I will admit I know nothing about the baffle system in you oil pan...
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    Random

    I know a few of us know how true this is.
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    Need help IDing my first boat

    Check for pictures on the internet of late 60's to early 70's Chrysler bassboats. Yours looks similar. https://www.harbortownemarine.com/listings/chrysler-14-jon-boat Back in those wild and wooly days of fiberglas boats many companies would buy a particular boat and use it to mold their own...
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    boat wanting to go left when cruising on water

    Probably trim tab adustment.
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    Somber news for iboats forums members.

    We discovered that we were both from the same small town in Western Pennsylvania after I posted a picture of a dirt track race car on I-Boats that he recognized. Though he was younger than me we PM'd a few times about some of his cousins I knew well. RIP Don
  8. dwco5051

    daily music fix

    Always liked the 12 string but never played one except for a few times lately at the local guitar shop. Can't figure out yet how to sneak one into the house. Here is an interesting article I found last night; https://studentofguitar.com/12-string-guitar-players/ A whole evening until O'dark...
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    daily music fix

    Many don't know that he was probably one of the top 5 guitarists to play pop and country. He started out as a member of the session musicians known as the "wrecking crew" before he was out on his own. Even after that many artist would have him play when they would cut a record. The best ever...
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    Rec gas prices???

    Lots of ideas have been kicked around over the years for large scale production of hydrogen. It takes a lot of electricity and I have seen everything discussed from harnessing the tides to large nuclear power plants on remote islands. I was also thinking about large solar arrays to harness the...
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    How Far Can an Electric Truck Tow?

    You can tow one of these with your new EV truck Pricing starts at $45,000 for the single outboard model and $65,000 for the twin outboard model. ; purewatercraft.com Twin Outboards Top Speed: 23 mph Range at top speed: 26 miles Range at an average of 5mph: 120 miles Single Outboard Top Speed...
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    Rec gas prices???

    Then you can at least wake up in the warm before you realize that your catalytic converter is gone.
  13. dwco5051

    Rec gas prices???

    I have lived through all that and survived. I am old enough to remember when my Dad's 1938 Buick had one of these on the windshield.
  14. dwco5051

    How Far Can an Electric Truck Tow?

    Replaced the rocker panels an and cab corners about 6 years ago. It's a race now to see which rusts out first, me or the truck.
  15. dwco5051

    How Far Can an Electric Truck Tow?

    MRSP from GMC website with all I had when I bought mine 20 years ago. 74,090 +6% Pennsylvania Sales Tac 4,445 = 78,535 Add dealer prep, title and transfer fees, etc and it is bumping 80,000 for a 2022. I can't afford it or an 84g electric. Mine only has 179,000 on it and at 83 years old I...
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    Trim relays

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    Trim relays

    Check on the center of the back of the motor for a black box about 5 x 3" or so. Two screws take the cover off and the relays or in the box if it is the same as my old 1990.
  18. dwco5051

    How Far Can an Electric Truck Tow?

    Interesting Article; It infers that in my case 95% of my towing could be done with an EV truck. 84 thousand for the EV is only a couple of thou more than a new 2500 diesel would be equipped the same as my 2002.
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    Rec gas prices???

    If I drive 15 miles one way our 92 rec is 4.89 as of today. In another month we will fill up 4 5gal containers for chainsaws, motorcycles, and boat. Fishing starts then and I only burn less than 10 gallons all year in the boat.
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    Rec gas prices???

    As of yesterday it will now cost close to $150 to fill up my pickup. Pennsylvania has the highest tax on diesel East of the Rockies
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