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    The right stuff!

    I replaced the decking on my old pontoon boat with the- real deal- marine plywood and painted it with marine tuff coat paint about ten years ago. Some green mold started building up around the bench seats where the leaves lay on the deck and rot. Reminded me of when the old carpet used to turn...
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    20 seconds to start peeing on muffs

    I'll bet your probably tired of seeing this question? I just replaced the waterpump impeller and housing and while I had it open I shot water up the water tube and out of the weep hole. So water shoots through the upper system without it running and out the weep hole in a good stream. Every...
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    Dry storage under the seat!

    After we bought the old pontoon boat I installed new furniture from pontoon stuff. The whole set for one side of the boat. A flip up end piece and a bench set that goes in the middle and a corner piece for the end. The problem was that water would run down the backs of the bench seat and corner...
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    Fuel additive?

    I have seen people remark that they use an additive that keeps the ethanol from destroying their fuel lines. Is there really an additive like that and what is is called? Around here it would be about as hard to find alcohol free gas as it would be to try to find a working gold mine. So it looks...
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    Fuel supply problems

    Had the boat on the water Wednesday and it lost power and died about 2-3 minutes into wot. The primer bulb collapsed and stayed that way until after I loaded the boat on the trailer by hand. Yes! I loosened the gas cap when it first happened. I just went out and pulled the- nearly new- Mercury...
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    Power pack or switchbox?

    I have changed and tested nearly everything I can think of on my 85 Mercury 50 HP 4 cylinder motor but I still can't get spark on the top two cylinders. When they talk about the power pack is that the same as the switchbox on this motor? Any way to find out if the switchbox is bad? I replaced...
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    How to remove the front cowl bracket on a 1985 Mercury classic 50

    I need to remove the front cowl bracket to get at the carbs. The choke assembly is attached to the cowl bracket. Where is the best place to detach the choke assembly to remove the cowl bracket? Fuel line disintegrated so I really need to get at the carbs. to see if I can clean out the float bowls.
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    Fluorocarbon line is less pliable than other lines.

    I spooled the new 17 pound line on my open face just like they show on youtube. Counter clockwise off the spool of line. Then when I opened the bail the line sprung off of the reel and twisted around the rod tip. So I drug a sinker up the alley with it attached to a swivel tied to the end of the...
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    Dry Gear!

    I was going to ask what you use to keep your gear dry on the boat but after googling it I have a lot of answers. I see where you can use zip lock bags that go from sandwich size or ones that can hold gallons of stuff. One thing I just found was that people use 5 gallon buckets and I think that...
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    Brakes went out!

    It was the end of a busy weekend on the lake and trailers were being backed in 5 wide on the ramp. The law had some drunks at the dock and that made things a little more tense. Anyway the wife managed to back the pontoon boat trailer down after a few tries and I had just made a big run at the...
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    Chinese navigation lights- don't go by the pictures.

    They instruct you that the red light goes to port and the green to starboard but then they have an illustration and the lights are on the wrong side. I know that the red goes to port. But those illustrations could confuse somebody who doesn't know the difference.
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    Advice on cleats

    Any advice on the best way to install docking cleats to the corners of the old Bass Buggy? There is no deck outside the fence so I am thinking about passing the lines over the rails and tying the lines to cleats mounted about six inches down the inside of the fence. Does that sound about...
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    Best Anchor light setup?

    18 foot pontoon boat with an electric Bimini top. What light do you use for an anchor light? Where did you mount yours? Illinois boating law says that it has to be 33 inches above the navigating lights and they are about deck high. Appreciate the help I have a ton of things to do before I get...
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    Battery Straps?

    Anybody found a better way to strap down batteries than using those nylon straps that never seem to last a season?
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    Old Mercury won't pee!

    I haven't run the Mercury on my pontoon boat for a few years and it has sat outside. Hooked it up to the muffs and got it running. That is when I found out that it wouldn't pee. I pulled the rubber tube off that goes from the top of the motor and goes out the side and it was clogged up to the...
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    Tire cover for pontoon trailer tires

    Anybody got any suggestions on how to cover the tires on an old tracker pontoon trailer. The tires are 205-65-10 and I am beginning to think that they don't make covers to fit smaller tires like these. Put new tires on this year and the old tires had weather cracks from the UV rays. Any DIY ideas?
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    Old mixed fuel

    I pulled the boat trailer down the driveway away from my neighbors window and hooked the muffs up to the old 50 horse Mercury. I hadn't run the outboard in a few years so I didn't know what to expect. It started with just a little cranking but it wasn't running strong and then it would die after...
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    Stained pontoon seats

    I bought new seats and covered them individually but didn't use the boat for a couple of years. I just pulled the seat covers off and the seats have a lot of spots and stains on them. I mean all of the seats. The captains seat, the fishing seats and the furniture too. Any tips on how to make the...
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    Draining the cup holders?

    I installed the nice plastic console that the wife picked out and it has cup holders all across the top. Does anybody have any ideas on how to drain the water out of these stationary cup holders? There is a rectangular recess in the middle too that holds water. Just wondering what other people...
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    Neutral start switch for old 50 HP Mercury

    I had a heck of a time finding out why the old 50 horse wouldn't turn over until I bought a 12 volt tester that I could stick into the wiring and check for voltage. It turned out to be the neutral start switch and although I couldn't get to the switch I did manage to get the wires loose from it...
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