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  1. tpenfield

    Time for a new boat . . .

    I stopped the boat today to anchor for a while and noticed that I was close to the 1,000 hour mark. So I ran the engine for another couple of minutes to get to an even 1,000.00 hours :) I guess I should start working on getting the next boat.
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    Technology comes through . . .

    I don't do much trailering anymore, since I have a larger boat that needs a boat hauler instead of trailering. But . . . recently I was moving the family Boston Whaler around with our new Ford Explorer and took note of the wonderful feature this car has in lining up the trailer hitch. Just...
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    Evinrude 25 HP Persistent Cough . . .

    The Evinrude 25 hp ( Model # E25ELCTD) that we use on the Boston Whaler has had a persistent cough for the past few years. The situation comes and goes, but never fully disappears. Warming the engine does not help much. Here is a 30 second video of the engine running in a 100 gallon tub...
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    Mercury 7.5 water pump melt-down . . .

    Last year the water pump on my 1969 Merc 7-1/2 hp crapped out (S/N 26346XX). No big deal, I figured, I'll get a new impeller. I took the lower unit off yesterday and went about disassembling the water pump. the thing looked more like a melt-down than just a simple failure of the impeller...
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    Preventative Measure for Posting to Old Threads . . .

    One of the forums that I frequent has this nice feature to prevent/warn folks about posting to old posts. It is a message with a check box that gives you a heads up before you can/should post to an old thread, as shown below. . I am just wondering if a feature like this would be possible and...
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    Question about adding 3" spacer/riser to exhaust on 7.4L

    As per my extended swim platform thread, I am considering adding a 3" spacer to my current exhaust setup, which is pretty much factory standard for 1996 - center riser manifold with stainless steel elbows. I measured the height of the elbows per the Mercruiser procedure: I got the 'a'...
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    Starboard Engine . . . no start . . .

    My joy with my boat launch with the new swim platform was a bit short lived. When we got the boat to the harbor dock for a few minutes, the starboard engine would not start. It had started about 20 minutes before at the ramp, but suddenly would not start after sitting at the dock for a few...
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    FIXED - Messages page is messed up . . .

    When you go to the 'Your Messages' page from the drop=down under your avatar, the resulting page is not formatted correctly and shows a sliver of the message detail with no ability to scroll. I noticed this happened about 6:30 ish this morning and still persists.
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    I may have found my 'next' boat . . .

    I took the family to the Palm Beach Boat Show yesterday, just to have something to do. We walked through the show, some of the boats were on land, but many were in the water. Saw the usual suspects and a few new ones. I made sure to stop by the Formula 'booth' they had a couple PC's and some...
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    Getting '502- Bad Gateway Error' when clicking on login link

    'www.iboats.com/user' is getting an error all of a sudden.
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    2019 Winterization Test for Mid-west/Northern Central USA

    Looks like boat owners in those areas of the US are going to get a good test of their (or their boat shop's) winterization procedures over the next few days. -20 F to -30 F in the Dakotas and Great Lakes areas, wind chills in the -40 to -50 range. :eek: :faint2: Should be a good test of how...
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    Site Navigation Wierdness - just happened today . . .

    In navigating the iBoats forum this morning, I noticed some weirdness happening when I go into the 'Messages' area of the site. If I go to the inbox or Posts, or any other of the message options listed the URL shows as http://dev-forums.iboats.com/ . . . . . . When I click on any of those...
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    Private Messaging Not Working?

    I tried sending a PM a few days ago, but it did not seem to go through. There was a message that the PM was sent, but it did not show up in my sent items. I tried several times throughout the day to re-send, etc. I thought it might have been that my mailbox was full or something like that...
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    Heat Exchanger Inspection at Winterization Time . . .

    Today was winterization day for my twin Mercruiser 7.4 LX MPI with Full Closed Cooling (never understood what the 'LX' was for . . .) Anyhow . . . I pumped out the gasoline (44 gallons) and mixed up about 7 gallons of 'fogging cocktail' and added it back to the tank. The rest of the gas goes to...
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    980 hours on engines - compression test

    I have 980 hours on my twin Mercruiser 7.4 LX MPI engines. They are going to lap 1,000 next season, as I average 40 hours per year, since buying the boat in 2012. . . 2013 being our first season with it on the water. I have not done a compression test in a couple of years, so I wanted to do...
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    Custom Fiberglass Extended Swim Platform

    It looks like our next boat is still a few years away, so I am thinking about doing some enhancements to the current barge, a Formula 330 Sun Sport. I always wanted an extended swim platform to get the people out beyond the outdrives, as they present a mild hazard when doing the sandbar thing...
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    Mercruiser 7.4LX MPI Throttle Position Sensor (TPS)

    I got a TPS error code ( I think it was code 24) on my starboard engine (as I mentioned in my ECT Thread). I also got a MAP error code (I think it was code 33) I didn't write the codes down before I cleared them. Anyway, I am seeing occasional high idle and surging from the starboard engine...
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    Other Countries Access Blocked ?

    I received word through my web site from an iBoats member that is in the UK. He said that he can no longer reach the iBoats site, that it is ‘blocked’ I had not heard of such a thing. Just wondering if that is a country thing or if it is specific to iBoats, or operator error of some sort...
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    ECT Sensor Temperature vs. Temp Gauge Reading

    I had a hunch that my temperature gauges were reading a bit high vs. what the MEFI module was seeing via the Engine Coolant Temperature (ECT) sensor. So, today I hooked up the computer to my engines to compare the ECT reading vs. the temp gauges at the helm. Engines are per my signature below...
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    Today's Entertainment

    We anchored at the usual place today. Plenty of sun and calm seas. After a while we noticed this boat across the sandbar. Appeared to be a man and a woman on the boat. I guess they didn't know about tides :noidea: At 5 O'clock, it looked like they had about 4 hours of tide until they...
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