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  1. Mr.Stuart

    slat floor non slip material?

    I have this little aluminum 12 foot boat that I'm completely redoing the interior in, I'm going with a wood slat floor, and was thinking about a non slip material to mix in with the varnish, would ground walnut shells work ok? is a non slip floor really nessessary? or is there a better means or...
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    Fuel, oil, and seafoam mix question

    I know this could be a loaded question but here it goes anyway: The outboard in question is a 1955 Johnson 5.5 with a 4 gallon pressure tank. At a 24:1 mix, that would be 4 gallons of fuel, 22 ounces of TCW-3 oil, plus I always ad seafoam, the recommendation is 2 ounces per gallon on the...
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    cylinder compression

    I thought I'd throw this in here for what it's worth. I'm also a member of a farm tractor forum, my tractor broke down and I've got it tore apart and am in the process of fixing it. I was doing a compression test on the tractor engine (a Briggs and Stratton Vanguard) and had posted my...
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    duel line pressure fitting O-rings?

    I'm having a terrible time getting the old O-rings out of this duel line pressure fitting, I remember seeing somewhere a picture of the tool's (I remember them being something simple) here's a picture of the fitting I'm working on and the tools I'm using to do it. I got 1 O-ring out, but the...
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    1966 Evinrude 18 HP tiller handle?

    I recently picked up a 1966 Evinrude fastwin 18 Horse power outboard, but it don't have a tiller handle, I've been looking on ebay and a few other places and have seen some that would probably work, but thought I'd ask just in case anyone knows, it might prevent me from buying the wrong one...
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    1955 Johnson 5.5 CD-12, will it run again?

    I thought I'd start this thread because I see a lot of questions about how to do this and that, people asking for part numbers ect. I'm about as inexperienced as they come when it comes to making an old outboard run, this is going to be my first, start to finish, no matter what the out come is...
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    compression readings 1955 Johnson 5.5 CD-12

    I posted this in another thread but with the amount of posting going in here right now, it's not going to take long for that other thread to be out of sight and out of mind, so I'll ask here. I did a compression test on my old 1955 Johnson seahorse 5.5 (CD-12) I got 80 pounds compression per...
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    just cleaned up my old 5.5 seahorse

    I just thought I'd show off my boat motor, I got it cleaned up today, this is a motor I found at a garage sale last summer, I got two for 25 bucks. I'm hoping to use this one this summer. I also got lucky yesterday and found a pretty nice 1966 Evinrude 18 horse with electric start for 50 bucks...
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    towing a raft behind your boat

    this may sound like a dumb question, but last weekend I went camping in a little 10 foot tri-hull, and I'm wondering what it would be like to pull a raft behind it and put the camping gear in the raft and tow it instead of piling the gear in the boat with us. the tri hull moves along pretty good...
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    Capacity rating

    The capacity rating of my little boat says 3 persons or 540 pounds, and I?m probably going to answer my own question here, but if I were to put 2 adults and 2 small children in that boat, total weight of the people on board would be about 425 pounds or so, give or take, I?m probably asking for...
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    The Free Olympian

    I picked up a free 10 foot fiberglass tri-hull Olympian boat the other day, It's not to bad of a boat, and the price was certainly right, I got it because the little aluminum boat that I am/was restoring isn't going to be done before my son gets here for the summer from out of state, and I...
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    treating Teak

    I might be way off my rocker on this one, but I was thinking of doing some spring cleanup work on the boat this weekend and am planning on oiling up the Teak, I know there's a ton of Teak treatments out there, but for the budget minded, isn't there a cheaper way? in one thread, someone...
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    41 Johnson HD-20 recoil rope?

    I want to replace the recoil starter rope on a 41 Johnson HD-20 2.5 horse. I noticed that the rope has a wire core, don't know if it's origional or not, but it looks like it is to me, where can I find wire core starter rope?
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    25 dollar garage sale find

    I'm still in a bit of shock today after finding this at a garage sale, one is a 1941 -42 Johnson HD-20 2.5 horse, it's supposed to run but has a bad impeller, and the other one is a 1955 Johnson CD-12 5.5 horse that ran fine until one of the coils went out, I got them at a garage sale from an...
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    duel line pressure tank restoration

    the two line pressure tank restoration begins. to start with, I picked up the following tank off craigslist for 20 bucks. it's a late 50's pressure tank with the plastic primer button, I thought I scored.
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    I got a Zephyr outboard

    I finally found an old outboard, not exactly what I wanted but it's something to tinker with, it's turns over and has good compression, I have not checked it for spark yet, I spent the last couple of days trying to research it and figure out what year it is, it looks like it's a 1946 the serial...
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    the quest for an 18 horse continues

    I posted an ad on craigs list looking for an 18 horse evinrude, the older the better, I've gotten some responses, I'm thinking if it's a really nice one that it might be worth maybe $250? so far I haven't gone to look at any yet, but here's the responses I've gotten back so far. the first...
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    what's your opinions on this $75 outboard?

    I'm looking at this outboard I found on craigslist, the guy wants $75 for it, from what I can gather it looks to be about a 1951 7.5 HP the serial number on it is 4443-28510, it belonged to the guys grand dad and sat in grand dads garage for years and no one ever remembers him using it for...
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    Wha-whoooo!

    Wha-whoooo! ?I just scored on an old 2 line pressurized OMC 6 gallon tank, 20 bucks complete with everything including hose, fittings, and gas cap, I?m half way to my antique outboard, just need to keep looking! I have renewed faith, an antique outboard is going to turn up!:D
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    1978, Evinrude 115 replacement prop?

    I took the Starcraft out this weekend and ran over a log, it bent up the prop a little, not real bad, but it's a little chipped and dented, the prop that's on the boat now is a 13x19 3 blade and the boat seems to do ok with it, top RPM is about 5,000, and top speed is somewhere around 40 to 45...
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