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  1. WalleyeSniper

    Surge in throttle then to idle, leads to almost stall (with video)

    The starter fluid won't combust and blow up like you'd think. You just kinda use common sense and give little squirts here and there. It heats off a warm engine near instantly. Fuel regulators are always a good item to have in place, because if pressure is too high in spurts it can leave too...
  2. WalleyeSniper

    Surge in throttle then to idle, leads to almost stall (with video)

    OOOOoohhhh... Lolol. I thought it was surging on it's own! Haha, sorry, must've misread. Yeah, dirty injector can cause that for sure. When you're pulling back on the throttle, the ECM sends an instant signal to pull back on fuel. That hard pull back on fuel is just a little bit of reverb from...
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    removing a ford 302 with penta 280 outdrive.

    Definitely can bud. Just put some fernco caps over the exhaust Y-pipes (Which water shouldn't be coming up that high anyways, but just for good measure) and put a plug into your raw water intake hose. That's the only two places that water comes into the boat from the 280. Raw water hose, and...
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    I replaced the water pump impeller and now I have problem with overheating

    Put up a picture of your impeller setup area (VP has a few different designs) and we'll be able to better help tell you how to go about bleeding the air out.
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    Surge in throttle then to idle, leads to almost stall (with video)

    Fuel leaking or air leaking into the combustion process somewhere. Usually on carbed engines this happens when fuel slips by the welch plugs in the bottom of the carb. Fuel injection it happens when fuel injectors are faulty and sporadically allowing too much fuel to spritz in here and there...
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    pivot pins wont go in

    Often times the pivot pins end up swelling out a little bit, so they end up being a absolute bear to install. What I've done many times in the past, is hook up the pivot pin in a drill, and take a couple thoudandths off by spinning it with the drill and using a 400grit piece of sandpaper, then...
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    1981 Sportcraft 270 repair underway - transom, stringers, & repower

    Perfect, that makes total sense.
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    1981 Sportcraft 270 repair underway - transom, stringers, & repower

    Polyfiber II is milled fibers, but it's a mix of extremely fine dust like cabosil and short strand fibers like 1/32. An old man at our marina used almost exclusively that on his restoration for Peanut Butters, and his boat is always out and about. So I figured it'd be good for strength. Lol Its...
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    1981 Sportcraft 270 repair underway - transom, stringers, & repower

    Just peanut buttered my seams because one of them was giving me crap and kept gapping like 1/32 of an inch or so at either the top or bottom. Figured I'd peanut butter it just in case and to get some fun practice in. 😆 When I fill these screw holes in, should I make the peanut butter slightly...
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    1981 Sportcraft 270 repair underway - transom, stringers, & repower

    Did you alternate sides at the same time, like an your or two apart? Or you mean alternate sides different days apart? I wonder why they say it won't cure when air gets to it, so to lock it away with adding wax or a layer of PVA...? So, you didn't do any of that and it still solidified rock...
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    1981 Sportcraft 270 repair underway - transom, stringers, & repower

    Just bonded the core together and used TB3 since I had 3gals of it available. I cut the marine ply to 36" x 108", because my actual transom cavity is 35" x 105". I used screws every 6" or so, in grids and along the edges, to hold the two sheets together since I didn't have any large enough...
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    1981 Sportcraft 270 repair underway - transom, stringers, & repower

    TONS of great info guys! You have no idea how much I appreciate to guys teaching this young man some tricks and handing out knowledge like it's candy. So, thank you guys so much for helping me in this rebuild thus far. I love the idea of putting two cabinet handles on the transom core. That's...
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    1981 Sportcraft 270 repair underway - transom, stringers, & repower

    I think that too is what I'm going to do. Use a flatboard laid on the hull somewhere, and use it to wet out my precut pieces. I'll wet the area I'm going to glass, then put the pre-wet layers down one at a time. I've seen that process and it seems like the best approach to not waste any of my...
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    1981 Sportcraft 270 repair underway - transom, stringers, & repower

    Well then, that's how I'm going to do it too. 😊 When installing the glassed core, do I use 1 or 2 layers of CSM between the fiberglassed core and rear skin? Or do I just bond the already glassed wood to the skin without CSM since I'll have an external layer of CSM on the back of the core?
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    1981 Sportcraft 270 repair underway - transom, stringers, & repower

    If using Titebond III, do you still put CSM between the layers of plywood like when they're going to be resin'd together? Or do you skip the CSM inbetween and just clamp with Titebond III in the middle like you're making a giant piece of plywood?
  16. WalleyeSniper

    1981 Sportcraft 270 repair underway - transom, stringers, & repower

    These were the explanations given to me below (these were all questions I had asked because I was really trying to get my head around both explanations and see where everyone was coming from because it's such a highly debated topic). Q: when do you grind down tabbing anyways? A: There are...
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    1981 Sportcraft 270 repair underway - transom, stringers, & repower

    Ahhh, ok, makes sense now. I guess that would be a great place for a bilge pump of raw water intake to go (instead of the thinner normal parts of the hull like they are now). You think I should relocate them? Or, just build plates/pads at their current places they were installed previously so I...
  18. WalleyeSniper

    1981 Sportcraft 270 repair underway - transom, stringers, & repower

    Does anyone know what these pads are for, next to either side of the rudder port? They come off of the engine stringers, but waayyyy aft of the inboard engine or trans, and are just kinda "there". I'm sure there's a reason, but I can't seem to figure out what they're for?
  19. WalleyeSniper

    1981 Sportcraft 270 repair underway - transom, stringers, & repower

    Makes total sense. I had just had kind of a random thought while that stuff was flying through the air and thought "wow, this stuff floats like cabosil!". Then just kinda wondered if people used it like that. Guess I'll be sticking to my cabosil and Polyfiber, lol.
  20. WalleyeSniper

    1981 Sportcraft 270 repair underway - transom, stringers, & repower

    This the original thread and link to the conversation on tabbing that I was referring to from another site https://www.boatdesign.net/threads/how-much-tabbing-for-stringers.50123/ I think the area pointed out that made me consider wider to smaller tabbing schedules, was the explanation about...
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