Im not sure that these surge brakes have ever worked correctly on this trailer. I believe we bought the boat sometime in 2012 and there was a noticeable rubbing sound coming from the right wheel. Dont ask why, but I didnt take the drum off till 2017 and discovered that the star adjustment had...
Unfortunately I found a leaking trim cylinder yesterday when pulling the boat out of storage. Wish I would've done a walk around weeks ago as I was hoping to get the boat in the water this weekend.
Found a kit on ebay (https://www.ebay.com/itm/331837734371) but Im curious how you get the...
Decided to bleed the brakes on our 2006 trailer today. Im assuming it had never been done so it was time. Some odd things were happening when bleeding the brakes. Honestly not sure that the brakes were ever working correctly. I was able to remove one of the bleeder screws and the back side was...
There are several threads on replacing the bearing and seal for the raw water pump but I thought I would make my own. Most of it will be pictures...
I believe the seal has leaked since my family purchased the boat in 2008.. The boat is a 2006 Four Winns with a 4.3 GL-G. Never really thought...
We bought a 2006 Four Winns Horizon 180 in ~2009 or so. Ever since then the belt has had some amount of squeak that really never went completely away. Since we dont use the boat too awful lot Ive always put up with it but finally got tired of it. I had read several threads with the same issue...
Hello, we may possibly be in need to two Volvo DP-A out drives. We had our boat pulled around 4 years ago to service the outdrives and again to overhaul them this week. The guy thats rebuilding them is saying there is too much corrosion to rebuild the out drives. When we pulled them 4 years ago...
Last summer our port engine started overheating under throttle. The impeller was changed 3 years ago so I assumed it wasn't bad. Come this summer, the issue was getting progressively worse eventually to where anything over idle would cause the engine to overheat when in gear (never let it get...
Just as a summary, both out-drives had water in them. Both has bad seals around the shaft where the shifter is. No bad prop seals, no bad input shaft seals. We caught this just in time, both outdrives were leaking oil badly. Port O/D has a torn boot, starboard was dry. Both water adapters were...
Im trying to find the part numbers for our Volvo DP-A outdrives. Ive found this:
http://forums.iboats.com/showthread.php?t=238091
But I dont know what U-joints are for our DP-A outdrives.
Thanks for any help.. :)
In this thread, DonS told me to get the upper and lower seal kits for our DP-A outdrives. Our boat has two 500A volvo's with DP-A drives. DonS said to get kits 876266(upper) and 876268(Lower). I found both kits for cheap on ebay but they only had one of each, so I got them. Later on, I ordered...
Everything Ive read says the idle should be 750 but it never says if thats in gear or out. If I set the idle to ~750 then put it in gear it'll drop to almost 600. Should it be 750 in gear??
Also, how could I get the service manual for this engine? Its a 1990 Volvo 500A. Don gave me a link a...
Our boat has some plastic windows/canvas that you can pull down around the front porch. The canvas is screwed to the boat at the top with a snap on the screw so you can snap that little decorative piece around the top on. Typically the plastic is rolled up in the summer and stays behind the...
Our boat has 3 Fuel/Water separators so getting filters at $10 a pop can get pretty costly. We usually replace them at least once per year and sometimes more depending on what happens. I believe the tanks are kinda nasty, so I want at least a 10 micron filter. So far weve been using Sierra fuel...
We recently had a fuel pump go bad on one of our Volvo 5.0's. We got a new Sierra Fuel pump and after only two weeks it went bad yesterday. We were out on the lake on our way back when the engine died. We cranked the engine to try and restart it then the engine seemed to stop cranking. Once we...
Weve had our new boat(Four Winns Horizon 180) for a couple of months now and Ive come to notice some things. First off, we bought a ShoreMaster Prism cover from right here on Iboats. So far weve been very pleased with the cover. Fits great, keeps the boat dry(although were having trouble with...
