shawnhowell
Cadet
- Joined
- Aug 3, 2008
- Messages
- 10
Well, here she is. She's a '72 Starcraft Supersport 18' with an open bow, and a 120 hp Mercruiser I/O motor. I brought her home a couple weeks ago for $300 with no idea what it needed or if it even ran. I knew nothing at all about boats except that I wanted one, and this would be an OK setup in my mind, with the open bow. I have 4 young daughters that would love to be out on a boat with me any chance they got, so space was an issue, but I absolutely did not want a cuddy. I have a 4 cylinder car to save on gas so I'm not gonna burn it all back up in more boat than I need. I'll never sleep on it anyway.
I do all my own mechanic work on my car and all the work on my own house so I figured I could stare this thing down a little while do some research on the internet and figure it out on my own. Thank god for this web-site and all of you people by the way. Well, since then I've gotten it up and running on muffs with no money invested. I had to sand down the points, clean the condenser terminal, clean the plugs, replace the coil wire, and sucked on the gas line so long I was just about ready to give up. For some reason the old mechanical fuel pump would not siphon from the tank until primed.
I managed to get the trim working. The guy I bought it from had me worried until I got into it. He told me there was a leak that he couldn't find. It turned out to be a loose line. Works great now. All I need to find is the max trim sensors for an old type R pre alpha sterndrive, or pull mine off and see if I can repair it. Any advice on that? I know I can just simply omit the sensor all together and hard wire it so the switch works, but I'm a bit picky when it comes to having things work exactly as they should.
My dash all torn apart so I can get the wiring in good shape.
Ha. Ha. The seats that I got with it are a joke.
I do all my own mechanic work on my car and all the work on my own house so I figured I could stare this thing down a little while do some research on the internet and figure it out on my own. Thank god for this web-site and all of you people by the way. Well, since then I've gotten it up and running on muffs with no money invested. I had to sand down the points, clean the condenser terminal, clean the plugs, replace the coil wire, and sucked on the gas line so long I was just about ready to give up. For some reason the old mechanical fuel pump would not siphon from the tank until primed.
I managed to get the trim working. The guy I bought it from had me worried until I got into it. He told me there was a leak that he couldn't find. It turned out to be a loose line. Works great now. All I need to find is the max trim sensors for an old type R pre alpha sterndrive, or pull mine off and see if I can repair it. Any advice on that? I know I can just simply omit the sensor all together and hard wire it so the switch works, but I'm a bit picky when it comes to having things work exactly as they should.

My dash all torn apart so I can get the wiring in good shape.

Ha. Ha. The seats that I got with it are a joke.
