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  1. ziggy

    mc-1 upper to lower nyloc nuts

    for my '75 mc-1 drive. i want to replace my nyloc nuts for the 5 studs. can i use ss nyloc nuts from the hardware store or do i need to use oem nuts like i will be for holding the drive to the bell housing.
  2. ziggy

    unknow liquid in first aft crease in bellows

    don't know if i got a problem. removed my drive to store in basement a few weeks ago. did some bellows inspection from the inside after drive removal. found lots of gimble brg. grease (green in color) up by the gimble brg. that didn't surprise me, i lub it probably more often than needed...
  3. ziggy

    an outboard Nineteen....

    well, now here's something ya don't see everyday.. http://asheville.ebayclassifieds.com/boats/clyde/1979-aristocraft-classic-20/?ad=12883342 guess converting your AristoCraft i/o to a o/b don't devalue it what so ever.. maybe... :rolleyes:
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    i knew 'they' were tracking me

    while i have a gm vehicle (fortunately an old one w/o onstar). this just isn't right. imho, it's happening more and more with everything we do too. where's my privacy in this new age? everything we do has a advertising price on it. or they track my moves to help them decide what ad's to...
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    how fast does your ArsitoCraft go?

    it'd be nice to know what others are getting for speed with their Nineteens. we could be compareing apples to apples. might be a heads up for maint. for someone if were not all getting about the same speed out of our boats. same for funliners or the wooden lines too. anyways. got my best speed...
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    something growing on my boat hull, what is it?

    So I go to the lake last weekend. splash about noon on Sat. I stay in the water till noon on Sun. I was boating most of the day and some of the night. I tie up to the dock and let my boat sit overnight in the water. Got back out on the water early Sun. Boated till noon then load up for home. So...
  7. ziggy

    FYI, hardtop window replacement

    i recently had to replace my port hardtop window. the reason i broke it was because i had the hardtop slid back and was going fast in rough water. like in rattling my fillings out of my teeth. anyways, the port window popped out of the top. some of the window to the outside. their made to come...
  8. ziggy

    trim won't work, 2011 glastron mx185

    my neighbor just got himself a brand spankin new boat. zero hrs.. it's got a mercruiser 190 hp v6, genII drive. he'd like to go boating but guess the dealer let him down. he took it to the lake the other day. he steered to starboard and the boat went to port. visa versa obviously. took it...
  9. ziggy

    good u tube stuff, The Who

    don't know if any other boaters are hip or not... but i just can't get enough of this youtube... tanglewood, 1970.... The Who it's kinda long and broke up, but pretty much sequential. ya just gotta load up the next set so to speak... to bad it's not one long show, but it gets the idea...
  10. ziggy

    boatfix.com ?, will this site really damage my computer if i open it?

    so is anyone else getting a flag saying not to visit this site? i wanted to post a link to a mercruiser sb that is (maybe) still available online to help someone out here on iboats. what i got was a generic looking page that says this sites gonna damage my computer if i open the link to...
  11. ziggy

    how's your summerizeing going, mines goes good so far

    how's your summerizing going. what do you have to do to get your thing together? i been getting onto mine the last two days. time to get my stuff together. summerizing i mean. man. went mighty smooth so far. though it is time consuming. and i start with a winterized boat. much pm has been done...
  12. ziggy

    outboard boats can blow up too i guess

    bummer. checking out the local news this morning and i see someones boat blew up at my local watering hole yesterday. http://www.1011now.com/home/headlines/Branched_O_117473924.html what surprised me was watching the clip. it was an o/b boat the blew up. ya don't see/read that often. i wonder...
  13. ziggy

    mc-1 failed vacuum test

    so i've been doing a little prep on my drive. R&Red the impeller R&Red top brg and race in upper driven gear shaft things looked respectable so i put her back together again. pressure tested at 14 psi for 24 hrs. rotated drive shaft, prop shaft engaged in fwd. no loss of pressure. did a vac...
  14. ziggy

    mc-1, question on upper

    started working on impeller replacement the other day. drive is in the basement. drained gear lub. no metal feel to lub it at all. pretty much the same color it went in (maybe a shade darker). green (mercruiser hp gear lub). no water intrusion. no issues last season. gear lub did get changed...
  15. ziggy

    pink anti freeze question

    is there any reason i shouldn't use last years pink anti freeze. i drained all the water out, then did the pink anti freeze. then came spring and i saved it. still looks like pink anti freeze. can i use it again this year?
  16. ziggy

    fasteners, PM

    food for thought. i went though looking for loose fasteners the other day. i found quite a few. many under the rub rail. missing rivets for the hard top slides. some loose screws for the ft. of the bottom of the rear seats. many exposed fasteners were loose. many were nyloc nuts that just...
  17. ziggy

    nineteen storage cover?

    ok, i'm on my 4th year with my nineteen. the poor thing sits outside all the time. it is religiously covered at all times when not in use. i'm on my second cover though. 1st one got ripped by the corner of the hardtop. now the second one is loosing it's water proof stuff on the inside of the...
  18. ziggy

    165 trim pump valve body R&R?

    so i got a leak at the valve body on my 75 165hp (L6) mercruser large reservoir trim pump. question is. is there anything that can fall out of the valve body? all i think i need to do to stop the leak is R&R the orings. if i had the room, could i even get away w/o removing the trim hoses? just...
  19. ziggy

    i did it again. dry start

    well, i did it again today... grrrr. ya know, start up the i/o w/o turning on the hose. i just can't go a season w/o doing it at least one time it seems. this time i caught right on so only ran it 10-15 sec. any run is too much. but at least i got hip to water fairly fast. anyone else gonna...
  20. ziggy

    harlan county lake?

    anyone been there? anyone been there this season? any insight about this lake? lake water quality? i'm thinking of going there. so far all i'm finding is that it is a fed lake. i don't know the ramifications of that vs a state lake like i usually frequent. i read it has a few stumps. how bad...
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