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I have read many of the ideas posted here on aluminum restoration and I tried the following.
The hull has small corrosion spots on it so I applied Aluminum Navel Jelly and then washed it off at the car wash. Spots / corrosion did not clean up.
:( Talked to a local boat repair company who...
I have an 8hp that went into storage for 13 years. I followed the manual when placed into storage on March 15, 1996.I restarted the motor on October 31, 2009 with about 10 to 15 pulls...Rough running in the test tank for about 2 hours then the running smoothed out and I took off for Branched Oak...