I live in older home (built in the early 40's). One of the rooms which is 12 x 12 only has one very small closet which is part of a stairwell. At some point I would like to add some closet space in there and wondered if anyone has every encountered this and may have some additional ideas. I have...
Does anyone know if there is a way to test a fish finder to see if it's working properly. So far all I could come up with getting my buddy to go out with his boat and compare. I just never see the fish arches on the screen like it shows in all the pics, or are they looking at whales :). This is...
When we bought our home it had a pond in the back yard. What a maintenance nightmare unless I wanted to invest the money for the proper pumps and such, and I didn't like it anyway. So yesterday I decide to bust up the poorly concreted surround and fill the thing in. I almost had it filled with...
I see a lot of posts about replacing rectifiers and the associated costs. I have never had to replace an OMC rectifier but on my Merc I used this one and it worked great, and I know that a lot of the Merc guys in that forum have used them...
My lower unit is leaking oil from the prop shaft seal. I have ordered a seal kit from iboats and it's on the way but I was curious about the prop shaft. You can see were the seal has ridden on the shaft. The outer part of the shaft where the seal rides just has a line where the seal has ridden...
My eyes are going blind from searching for this answer. What tach setting should I use? I have a Faria tach that I took off my other merc powered boat. It is a 7000rpm tach with 6 settings that are
Poles - Setting
4 - 1
6 - 2
8 - 3
10 - 4
12 - 5
and it has a #6 which...
I don't have any parts diagrams for this motor so I thought I'd ask. I have a 1967 Johnson 60 hp. I found a 1959 Johnson 50hp on CL for $40 and a lot of the parts look similar. I was just curious if there were any interchangable parts that I could use for spares to make it worth the $40. The...
Just got some General Grabber HTS LT 245/75/17 tires for my 1/2t truck which had P rated tires on it. Our 3/4t fleet vehicles came with these General tires and we had to switch to real off road tires. Anyhow I was able to get all 5 of the new take offs for $65 apiece so I couldn't pass it up...
Just to add to my encylopedia of worthless knowledge I decided to try an experiment with supertech marine 80-90w and BRP Hi-Vis. I put a 1/4 cup of each in a water bottle with a 1/4 cup of water,and shook vigorously for 2 minutes. Here are the results (The BRP is on the left)
1. Starting off...
My kicker plate is to close to my main motor. I lose quite a bit of turn radius to the port side because the big fat 60hp hits the kicker. Thinking about moving the plate over a few inches (where the black outline is). Does any one see a problem with this. It is a riveted boat, and I was gonna...
Mounted my 9.5 kicker today and everything went on fine. Trolled most of the day and when I got ready to take the kicker off one of the clamp screws was cross threaded. It wouldn't budge either direction and I ended up cutting it off and drilling it out for fear that I would bust the stern...
1986 9.9 Johnson. It was electric start when I got it and I am converting it back to manual. The wiring diagram is a liitle hard to read and I don't want to risk burning a power pack. From the kill switch does one wire go to the black/yellow and the other to ground?
Just cause it's late and I got nothing better to do I decided to see how many revolutions per mile my trailer tires spin compared to my truck. I run 265/70/17 on my truck and 5.30x12 on my trailer. The circumference of the tires are 99.293" for the truck and 65.94 for the trailer. 63360" in a...
Upon cleaning my garage I found a mid 50's firestone 5hp outboard manual. This should be pretty much as the Scotts of the same vintage other than the bail-o-matic. I'd rather post it though for everyone to benefit. It's 9 pages front and back.
Trying to add a 9.5 johnson short shaft kicker to my boat. It already has a transom jack on the boat. The problem I'm having is because it's a short shaft I have to let the transom jack down with places the back of the kicker leg about 5-6" behind the main motor leg. I assume that when set up...
