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    New Carburator on one year old boat

    I have a 2004 17-foot bowrider with a 3.0L Volvo Penta stern drive. Since new it has exhibited a slight hesitation when you drop the throttle quickly (e.g., fast hole shot). I recently had an authorized dealer look into this when I had the boat in for a routine oil change. They advised me that...
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    Did I pick the right one?

    Had I indicated that this is another propeller question, whould you have opened this tread?<br /><br />I have a 17-foot Four Winns bowrider with a 3.0 Volvo Penta. Final drive ratio is pretty short at 2.18. The stock prop was an aluminum 14.25 x 21". At WOT my RPMs with the stock prop were...
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    Transducer Performance

    Up to what speed should a transom-mounted transducer be reasonably expected to read bottom (depth sounder)?<br /><br />I recently had a depth sounder installed. When I took the boat out, it would not read bottom at any speed once on plane. I re-aligned the transducer so that the trailing edge...
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