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    Wellcraft 210 Elite Restoration NEED HELP!!

    Check around, you may luck out and find a relatively cheap off the shelf tank that is close enough in size to work. Or do what I did and get a custom one made. Not too many people have a large fabricator basically in their backyard though. :p
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    What is your worst day on the water?

    I think dad's worst was when the steering pin snapped on his old boat. This was the old MC-1 splined steering pin and he was running about 50 mph. His buddy said "all I saw was white." Dad said it did a 360 in the footprint of the boat. How no one was thrown off he doesn't know.
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    Wellcraft 210 Elite Restoration NEED HELP!!

    The only dumb questions are the ones that arent asked.
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    3.0L differences

    When mine started getting water in it from a rotted manifold. (the original manifold and riser went 12 years in salt water before an issue. I inspected it once a season, the manifold rotted internally near an exhaust port.) But you would see it on the plug. What was happening was on long idles...
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    What is your worst day on the water?

    Forgot the drain plug on my float test after the restoration. Only time I ever have done that. Dad's yapping away on the phone "how aren't you here yet? I talked to you over an hour ago, it wouldn't take me this long." whole riot act. I said last thing on the checklist is to install the drain...
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    Contour maps?

    I used a Navionics card in my 581 which allows for contour. When I had purchased that particular card you could load in whatever region you wanted from the PC and have the charts for it and you got updates to the chart data for a set number of years vs buying a region specific card. For what I...
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    I/O (Sterndrive) Conversion to Outboards

    Yeah give or take. Turbo gassers are typically a little worse yet. When they replaced the 330 with the 340 (smaller boat all around) they managed to get the triple yama bangs to do 1.00 mpg at cruise. Mind you that was nearly 10 year newer tech and a boat that was 10000lbs lighter.
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    I/O (Sterndrive) Conversion to Outboards

    I get 1.2 gallons per mile on the 330... and people claim diesels are more efficient. :p
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    I/O (Sterndrive) Conversion to Outboards

    I've seen it both ways, people say they got significant fuel savings with them perhaps from older 4 strokes which were not anywhere near as efficient as the current crop is... and less than stellar results. Like everything else, highly hull dependent imo.
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    Water in gear oil... (Not a great day)

    Also, for anyone wondering what the seal looks like: I'll know at some point this week how it fares... but this was the smoking gun. Was talking to dad about the prop shaft seal as well as a the water pump base. Being this is the older MC lower it uses the preload pin with the open taper...
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    I/O (Sterndrive) Conversion to Outboards

    As I recall from merc: No extended periods at idle/below 1500 rpm First ten hours no more than 3/4 throttle and vary throttle constantly Next ten no more than 5 minutes at wide open. And cary throttle. Engine is broke in at 20 hours. I would assume like most modern vehicles that current break...
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    I/O (Sterndrive) Conversion to Outboards

    Accurate description of my entire rebuild.
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    I/O (Sterndrive) Conversion to Outboards

    When I removed all the water logged foam on my boat I expected the thing to float higher. It did not. :LOL: I recall discussing the CG change a while back. How much did it move? I feel that's going to dictate quite a bit. Then all the extra beer storage is going to effect the angle as well.
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    I/O (Sterndrive) Conversion to Outboards

    I've heard anything can take a hundred shot once.
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    I/O (Sterndrive) Conversion to Outboards

    Makes sense, fuel usage is always smiles per gallon anyway. :p
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    I/O (Sterndrive) Conversion to Outboards

    Do you have a proposed set of metrics to assess boat performance? Or is feels good enough, good enough? :)
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    Marine gas gauge shows less than empty.

    When full or near full my old sender would read empty empty on the gauge. I'd pull it and check the resistance sweep with a meter and then go from there. It could also be a bad ground... I assume this is one of the units that grounds through a staple in the gasket?
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    3.0L differences

    153 from a Chevy II should be close enough no?
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    Hull cleaning

    Sounds like a problem for future me. :LOL: A friend had a company that created a citrus based cleaner for the stuff. Granulated, mix with a little water and it was comparatively safe to handle compared to HCL and other materials. The oxalic is fine too but I've encountered a lot that you need a...
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    Hull cleaning

    Acid. The answer is always acid.
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