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  1. Scott Danforth

    How Do You Diagnose a Soft Spot in a Fiberglass Boat Deck?

    Bayliners and searays under 25' are both made in the same facility. Being a 2015 there should be stringer tubs and glue (no wood in the stringers) The foam is injected between the stringer tubs. Post pictures of the area in question
  2. Scott Danforth

    2003 5.7 Volvo Penta water in oil

    If you have a problem with the block and heads, you follow the sound of the escaping air. Remember air tests must have all the water removed from the water jacket. However I doubt you have a water jacket issue, as the port being rusted is from water entering the exhaust
  3. Scott Danforth

    Woods 9180RD Batwing came apart

    Grind out the weld with a 4-1/2" grinder. Then hit it with the flux core
  4. Scott Danforth

    Question regarding wiring up a carter electric fuel pump

    Thats how the circuit I use works. it also works as a starter interlock preventing cranking once the engine is running.
  5. Scott Danforth

    USPS, How does this even happen. Comical

    you should see my overseas shipments thru Fed-Ex...29 out of 31 shipments required no less than 4 hours of phone calls to get the package to get released from Memphis.
  6. Scott Danforth

    Question regarding wiring up a carter electric fuel pump

    This is how I have the carter wired in my boat. (however double check the oil pressure switch terminals for the one you use)
  7. Scott Danforth

    Best way to mount bunk boards

    countersink carriage bolts, then backfill the countersink area with caulk
  8. Scott Danforth

    How Do You Diagnose a Soft Spot in a Fiberglass Boat Deck?

    first, what year, make and model of the boat. some boats are notorious for propensity to rot second, usually a core sample of the foam from a flotation area or a test drill or two into the substrate of the stringers or transom. if the floor is soft, the transom and stringers are gone. post a...
  9. Scott Danforth

    Top unit noisy after bearing change

    did the mechanic clean the oil strainer between the transmission and lower unit? did the mechanic pull the whole drive apart to clean out the debris? Volvos have a great oiling system, but any damage to a bearing or gear gets pumped thru the whole thing. so any bearing failure requires the...
  10. Scott Danforth

    [SPLASHED] I/O (Sterndrive) Conversion to Outboards

    Actually cut way back on the consumption.
  11. Scott Danforth

    [SPLASHED] I/O (Sterndrive) Conversion to Outboards

    Im thinking of growing corn to distill into my next batch of boat fuel.
  12. Scott Danforth

    3.0 mercruiser engine

    I will second the what engine are you thinking swapping from a 3.0 to a 4.3 or 5.0 or 5.7 can be done. however needs to have a bunch of other parts swapped as well. heading to a junk yard to buy any run-of-the-mill motor wont work. it has to be a marinized motor.
  13. Scott Danforth

    Woods 9180RD Batwing came apart

    Welding and Planting are two things where penetration is critical
  14. Scott Danforth

    Thinking of getting a sailboat . . .

    its like cooking an egg...... once you start, no undoing it.
  15. Scott Danforth

    Prop nut for Merc 25 hp?

    Stainless + aluminum + copper alloy (brass) is a recipe for galvanic corrosion.
  16. Scott Danforth

    Thinking of getting a sailboat . . .

    Did you ever get the 2-pieces of the hull separated?
  17. Scott Danforth

    Woods 9180RD Batwing came apart

    I say practice a minute or two before hand. You have this
  18. Scott Danforth

    When do you replace the bellows? '01 Alpha One Gen 2

    Inspect them However at 26 years, you're well past design and service life
  19. Scott Danforth

    2003 5.7 Volvo Penta water in oil

    You visually inspect the gaskets and gasket surface between the two, and you fill the manifold with acetone (seeps thru smaller cracks) However if you boat in salt water, expect about 5-7 years max on the life of a manifold
  20. Scott Danforth

    Piston soaking a 2 cycle outboard?

    Was about 10 years ago. Palm tree dies, so I thought WTH..... Since I have saw in hand, let's make a Tiki..... Fell the tree leaving 6' of trunk.....About an hour into carving on it the saw just goes "THWAAK!!!!!" And that was all it had. Finished it up with the electric saw
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