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  1. rickasbury

    transom leak

    Here is a picture of the one I made for the out drive....kind of hard to see how I make this but it is a furniture dolly from harbour freight- I built a frame around it and then uprights to hold the drive. I think I will have to have something a little heavier/bigger to handle the motor but the...
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    transom leak

    Well, I take that for the truth- but , it should slow down the leak enough to figure out where it is leaking. If it is the main transom seal, and it is not leaking at all at least I will know that, right? I put a bead around the gimbal ring. I did plug up the water exhaust ( finally saw where...
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    transom leak

    I have a 350 horizon motor with bravo lll with a transom leak. Took a friend to the ramp with a camera to see if we could nail down the source- he is a merc mechanic but does not work on boats at present. He says the leak is coming from the y pjpe, thinks its from around one of the bolts where...
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    Sea Ray up for sale!

    Did you see that Sea Ray and Meridian were up for sale? Does not bode well for the boating industry......
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    Leak at transom

    Well, have been at this for a while....350 MPI with Bravo III and I started getting a transom leak. Boat is a Rinker, 2005 with about 300 hours on it. So, assumed I had a bellows issue and I did bring the boat home and do it myself- took me a while but did it. Upon inspection of the old bellows...
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    Bravo lIII Leaking a bit..

    I have a 05 boat with about 200 hours on it and noticed I was dropping some gear oil...pulled the props and the seal at the carrier bearing is leaking slightly and there is a little axial play in the shaft, not a lot but a little to the point when you move it, it leaks a little. With the hours...
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    water pump issue

    I have a 2005 350 MPI in a Rinker we bought around the first of the year. Boat had 98 hours on it when purchased with no maintenance records. So, I have been working through catching up regular maintenance stuff like plugs, changed the oils, serviced the genny, fixed some other minor items etc...
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    port charlolette fl boating

    New to the area, staying at cayo costa next week and need to get from pine island marina almost due west over to my dock on the island. Looks like from charts, west to east travel does not work well....should I head to the inlet and come down the back side of the island or hit the icw and turn...
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    boating around Port Charlotte , FL

    Hi all, new to this web site looking around and thought I'd pose the question as I saw some other posts from folks in the Port Charlotte area.... My wife and I are staying on Cayo Costa next week, will be on the water on Saturday. Leaving out of Pineland Marina on Pine Island, our dock we are...
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