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  1. matt167

    Looking for my first ski boat

    $16k should buy a decent mid 2000’s to early teens bowrider but it’s going to be hard to find one with more than a 4.3L
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    1982 Starcraft Questar 191 (Volvo Penta AQ140) - Battery voltage drops to 8V when starting, cables get hot

    Grounds and/ or a faulty starter will cause that issue as well as a bad battery. Take everything apart and clean up all your terminal connections
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    Is it capable of planing?

    Yes it should have more than enough
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    470 to 120 swap

    If the donor boat is older than mid 70s the transom cutout is slightly smaller. But very doable if you have 2 complete boats
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    Artificial Intelligence

    If Johnny 5 was connected to Google. That is what basic AI like chatGPT is.. I use it periodically. It’s only as good as the information it finds.
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    West Marine files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

    I bought the shift cables for my little boat from WM in 2021. Other than that, I don’t know when or if I actually walked in that store before that day. They simply had what I needed in stock
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    2003 Larson SEI 180 90HP OUTBOARD

    By 2003 a Larson should be wood free on a small runabout like that
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    Eagle Claw Starfire X trolling combo’s. Any good ( enough )?

    Found 2 cheap Shakespeare rods in storage that I bought a few years ago when I wanted to troll off my 14’ and never did. I cannot find the reels for them ( which I think were ATS line counters ) are vintage Penn peer 209 level winds a good option? I can get a couple pretty cheap. Im thinking...
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    Trolling Walleye. Any insight?

    Definitely will try crawler harnesses. I for sure want to catch some as I’ve never actually had Walleye
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    Trolling Walleye. Any insight?

    That is the way I’d like it to work. Only caveat is my house has a tiny property and the driveway is too short to fit my truck and trailer connected. I keep the boat down the road in the next town at a storage facility which eats into the time. My dad lives 5 miles from the boat ramp so it’s...
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    Trolling Walleye. Any insight?

    as I’ve stated in other threads I normally troll for lake trout in the finger lakes of NY ( Cayuga mostly ) but the lake is 2 hours from my house so it takes a full weekend to go out. Friends of mine tell me that i pretty much will catch walleye in Oneida lake no matter where I am on the lake...
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    Filling Tractor Tires with Methanol

    Yup. It does foam up quite a bit. There are a couple ways to see where the liquid is sitting so you get the 75% fill.. the easiest is on a hot day it might condensate and show you as you fill it with cold liquid. And second is simply a hammer to tap. Neither is an exact science I forget if...
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    Filling Tractor Tires with Methanol

    Fun stuff. Tractor/Ag tires used to be part of my day job. I still help my father in law with his tractor tires when he needs it. I filled one of his last year after a valve got knocked off. I didn’t build the tube going back from the pump to let the air out. I just use the air bleed on the...
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    Fuel water separator install

    Nope. The water separator is preventive maintenance. I’ve actually just finished mowing with the ‘recovered’ gas that was contaminated in the kicker tank. I ended up with about 3 out of the 4 or 5 gallons in it after letting it separate and pumping it off
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    Fuel water separator install

    Everyone keep in mind. Water entered my kicker tank while it was strapped to the transom while on the trailer the night before it was going back out. As most of those tanks do, the caps don’t seal great. My 2 main tanks do not have water issues… but I’m eliminating the kicker tank and adding the...
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    Fuel water separator install

    Well yeah oil/ petroleum floats. But if the separator fills up, drain it. Re prime it and keep going… weird thing about oil and water is it doesn’t mix but it can be held together in suspension if it’s shaken or mixed. Hence water seperator
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    Fuel water separator install

    That’s what I was thinking. I think I’ll mount it right next to the selector valve.
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    Fuel water separator install

    I ordered a new OEM mercruiser fuel water separator to install in my boat after I had a pretty severe water in fuel issue ( cut trip short when kicker quit ) My boat has 2 fuel tanks with a selector. Should I keep the selector in place or tie the tanks into the 2 inlets together? I’m also...
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    Removing water from gas

    Honestly that’s a great idea. Luckily I was an able to see the water fuel line very easily. It’s kind of mesmerizing watching the water droplets fall through the gasoline
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    Removing water from gas

    The first sample I took in a quart jar was nearly 50/50. I pumped a gallon off the bottom and then I got a clear larger container and pumped it off the bottom and let it separate and it didn’t have much at all. Filled my mowers and cans last night.
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