I have a 1999 Four Winns Sundowner with the 5.7GS engine. I went to start it for the first time today since it has been stored for the winter. I should mention that yesterday I changed the stereo and everything was good. Both batteries are fully charged. Today I ran the blower for a few...
I have a V1D1 Carling switch which is bad and need to replace it. It went behind the switch and got the rear housing removed, but I can't figure out how to pull out the actual switch. Attached is a picture. I'm assuming I need to remove that as well in order to put in a new switch. Please see...
Currently in my boat there is a fresh water tank that feeds into an electric pump. I bought the boat used and never could figure out how to work it. Turns out the pump used to be wired to the ACC switch which has since been changed over to controlling the stereo. I would like to mount a...
I have four 90 watt Polk Audio speakers connected to an amp that has 360 continuous power or 720 max. I had it wired to a deep cycle battery and it played fine all summer. Now it will only sound good with the engine running. With the engine off the speakers sound distorted. I checked the voltage...
It wouldn't be a summer of boating if there weren't any issues with the boat. Here are my two problems. I'm not sure they are related or not.
#1 - It seems that if my boat sits without any use for a day or more that when I go to start it I have problems. When I turn the key the only thing...
I have a 1999 Four Winns Sundowner 245. Over the weekend by bildge somehow got half filled with water. Not good. I was able to get the boat out of the water and will have it inspected tomorrow. Anyway, I had removed the bilge plug and got all the water out. However, when I moved the boat...
I'm sure this pretty simple to do, but I am not great at wiring. Anyway, last year I bought a 1999 Four Winns Sundowner that has a sink in the cuddy. I had the boat in the shop and I asked them how to use the sink because I couldn't get it to work. I guess there are two problems. The first...
Last year I purchased a 1999 Four Winns 245 Sundowner. She currently has on a aluminum prop with a 15" diameter, 17" pitch with 3 blades. I'm assuming this is the factory original. The boat has a Volvo Penta 5.7 SX engine and I have no complaints about how the boat has run with with current...
I recently bought a new boat and there are a few stains on the vinyl that appears to be oil. I have tried cleaning it with vinyl cleaners, Goo Gone, Purple Power and nothing seems to work. Goo Gone may have made it a little lighter. Please see the attached picture. Does anyone have any...
I recently bought a new boat which has a tape deck stereo that I knew didn?t work. Yesterday I bought a Sony CD unit to replace it. I connected my ground wire and then spliced the red and yellow wires to the old wiring harness. Before connecting the speakers I wanted to make sure it worked...
I just purchased a 1999 Four Winns 245 Sundowner which I will be picking up this weekend. In the cuddy it has a sink and connections for a porti-potti. I am curious on how the water system works on this boat. When I looked at the fuse panel I saw a slot for the water system (forgot how it was...
I am considering purchasing a 1999 Four Winns 245 Sundowner with a Volvo Penta 5.7L EFI engine. Looks like it has about 220 hours on it. I would like to get people's thoughts on this size engine with a 24' boat. Just curious if it will have enough power or not. The ad says that it cruises at...
In July 2008 I had my bellows replaced on my boat. I have a Mercruiser 3.0 with an Alpha One outdrive. I had to take the boat back to the shop two other times that year because the exhaust bellow kept slipping off on one end. He has a heck of a time stretching it out and finally was able to...
I have a 1986 19' Chris Craft Cavalier with a Merc 3.0. Last year I added a set of Smart Tabs. My boat has and still is pulling hard to the port side of the boat. I am wondering if there are adjustments I can make to the Smart Tabs to help correct this? I understand it is a little trial and...
I have a 19' 1986 Chris Craft Cavalier which I recently installed Smart Tabs on, ST1290-60. They worked great my first time out when it was me, my wife and two girls (ages 2 and 4). The next time I took it out I had the 4 of us plus two more adults who sat in the very back of the boat. The...
