New member: Amazed at the Starcraft Lovers!

Old Boat Luvr · May 16, 2012

Holy Cow! There's like an entire section for Starcraft lovers! I'm impressed! Heck I thought I was all alone out there! Just to introduce myself I own 2 Starcrafts. One is an 18' 1974 Super Sport that is my daily fishing boat I've been slowly restoring as I use it. Bought it about 5 or 6 years ago and love it! It's always been stored indoors so it's kinda a cream puff. I also just purchased an 18' 1970 Holiday V with the 120hp I/O that I'm starting a restore on. It too has spent most all it's life stored indoors and is a cream puff!
This is the SS out on a fishing trip

This is the SS's Helm with the dash I restored using all fog free white faced gauges. I have a matching set of 94' Evinrudes (a 112SP and a 9.9 for trolling) and I set it up with dual controls so you can start/run and steer either or both from the helm. The only thing it doesn't do is have a power tilt for the 9.9 but I can't be totally lazy! It also has an Eagle fish finder/GPS, marine radio with dual antennas and a marine stereo w/cd player.

Here's a back shot of the matching motors.

jasoutside · May 16, 2012

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Yah man, you found where all the Starcraft weirdos hang out! You have a great set up there ^^^. Welcome

dozerII · May 16, 2012

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Welcome to the Starmada, great looking SS, have not seen too many with matching o/b's, The Holiday with the Mercruiser is a nice set up as well, very economical to run.
Glen

ezmobee · May 16, 2012

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WELCOME! A new member and he's already got multiple boat syndrome. You'll fit in just great around here

I'm also running two semi-matching (but much uglier than yours) Evinrudes. Just completed my kicker bracket install last night http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w200/ezmobee/New Boat/IMG_20120515_183130.jpg I don't have controls yet for the kicker. I'd be interested in pics/details on your steering integration for it.

barato2 · May 16, 2012

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bienvenidos homey! welcome to the monkey house and all that. don't worry, the inmates here will have you supplementing your collection in no time....

Old Boat Luvr · May 16, 2012

Question about I/O's

Question about I/O's

Since the Holiday is my first I/O I have some questions:
1. On the dash I have 3 buttons for the tilt/trim. The top one says UP/Trailer (this one doesn't work). The middle one says UP/Out (this one doesn't work either) and the bottom one says IN/down (this one works I think). Now I understand the UP and DOWN part but what is the IN and OUT supposed to do?

2. I found two brass plugs on the intake manifold (one 1/8" and one 1/4") and figured out they must be for winterizing the exhaust manifold (1/8") and block(1/4") but are there other things I need to winterize and how?

3. Is there a source somewhere for me to download a copy of the owners manual for this thing?

4. Are there other things I need to look for or should know about that's unique to I/O's?

erwinner · May 16, 2012

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Can't help with the I/O questions as mine is an outboard, but welcome to the Starmada!

jasoutside · May 16, 2012

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Lots and lots of reading over here...

http://forums.iboats.com/forumdisplay.php?f=21

TundraRocks · May 16, 2012

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Thought for sure I had seen this setup on Craigslist not too long ago...Welcome. You will find anything and everything starcraft you would ever want to know or see. Nice resto job.

barato2 · May 16, 2012

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i mean, spend enough time here and you;ll be DREAMING about rivets

1973Chieftain · May 16, 2012

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Welcome to Tin Heaven, the Starmada! Home of the worst cases of MBS

barato2 · May 16, 2012

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in my best Travis Bickle voice: "you talkin to me?"

and how did you know i was thinking of making a lowball offer to the lady with the 18' holiday that used to be a 25' chieftain....?

1973Chieftain · May 16, 2012

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barato2 said:
in my best Travis Bickle voice: "you talkin to me?"

and how did you know i was thinking of making a lowball offer to the lady with the 18' holiday that used to be a 25' chieftain....?

Probably cause the thought is nagging me to go make an offer on a 18' Lone Star cuddy I know of... we must both have serious cases of MBS!

Davem3 · May 16, 2012

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welcome aboard, heck all i wanna do is buy ONE starcraft, and ya have me double down already........... nice to meet you.

"We don't need no steenkin reevits!!!!"

barato2 · May 16, 2012

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something akin to Alzheimer's due to all the alum dust we breathe while sanding?

(OBLuvr, sorry about thread hijack....will STFU now......would love to see more pics of your boats, esp in action)

on your Qs: 1. the in/out just refers to in or out of the water. trailer button raises it to max height for safe towing

2. yes, i think there are more things you need to look at when winterizing. good news is you have at least few months to learn em ;-)

3. yes, but i don;t have it handy. don't waste your time with the aftermarket manuals from Seloc.....as one of our sage senior members pointed out, those are mostly good for knee pads

4. yes, exhaust manifold corrosion and cam gears. failure of either can result in your engine being toasted.

North Beach · May 16, 2012

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Well everyone else answered all the questions so I'll just say welcome....

FishNmemories · May 16, 2012

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well, hard not to like someone who is "amazed" and "impressed" about fellow starcraft "lovers". Sssh, don't tell our wives/girlfriends we are in Love with....our boats (the women get jealous). Great to have another SS...ummm Lover on-board

Old Boat Luvr · May 17, 2012

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Okay so the "In" bottom button basically lowers the out drive down correct? and the "UP" top button is supposed to raise it out of the water (if it was working)? So the middle button does what?

Sorry for all the questions. Trying to decide if I can try to get this controller to work again or just pick up an on/off/on momentary switch. I'd like to try to keep it looking as original as possible but I remember with my SS that sometimes it's easier to just tear out the old gauges and switches and replace them all with new.

ezmobee · May 17, 2012

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Up probably just raises it to the top of the "trim" range as opposed to up and out of the water which would be the "trailer" range.

barato2 · May 17, 2012

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the "up/trailer" switch works sorta like one of those driver's-window lowering relays where it lowers the window all the way whe you tap the button. it raises outdrive ALL the way up so you don't rip the skeg off on bumps while towing like PO of my boat did. the middle "up/out" button is the one you'd use to incrementally adjust trim upward. pretty straightforward.

up to you if they are usable. just flush em with contact cleaner and/or WD40 and see if you have continuity after working em a bunch. often helps to first shop vac and then blow out with compressed air to get dust etc out before you start flushing it.

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