Re: 1976 Holiday 18 Mercruiser 120
Couple things that might be of interest to my fellow Starcrafters. I have been trying to locate a oil change kit for the 120 that empties through the drain plug. MPI makes one but it is a little pricey and they want $60 to ship it to Canada. Through some searching and the old fellow that owns the local auto parts store we found Fram makes a kit SD1, there are a bunch of them for sale on fleabay if anyone is interested, but my local guy got me one for $22. Most of the reviews for them say they are slow to drain, but that really doesn't matter in a boat.
After rebuilding four of these boats I finally ran into an easy way to fasten the side panels, this is how they were done on the Holiday, the only thing I changed was to counter sink the T-nuts just to keep them off the aluminum gunwale sides. When I install the screws I will add a little Loctite just to ensure the bolts don't turn while installing the panels.
And last but not least this is a little trick I learned building RC planes, when putting wood screws in ply, drill your pilot hole, thread the screw in then remove it, apply a little CA glue to the screw hole then reinstall the screw, it reinforces the threads in the ply and acts as a Loctite for wood.
