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    Anyone else notice...

    Large businesses, LLCs, whatever, buying up marinas nation wide? Our other boat is a 33' wellcraft coastal. We wet dock and dry dock at what was a reasonable marina and you were allowed to do your own work. Over the last couple years, a large company has been buying up any marina worth buying...
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    Control replacement/update opinions

    Good Morning everyone, While I have the boat torn down I plan on going through and replacing all my control cables and was just looking for feedback on if what I am looking at sounds right. For control, I have an original 84 Quicksilver control box, side panel mount, which I believe is from...
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    My 84 4winns horizon 195 project.

    So the long and short is this will hopefully be a simple floor replacement project... but we all know how that goes. I know of some damage areas under the floor I discovered in the back but don't know the extent of it and won't until the floor comes up. The good? The floor is only really soft...
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    Got a new toy to test out eventually...

    Seems I like spending money when I'm not doing anything. Still investigating the engine and doing work on the boat... but found something I just couldn't pass up trying/buying. Looks like it was run a couple hours then shelved for a while. Cost next to nothing and maybe it'll knock my rpms down...
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    Manifolds (Trying to figure out what I am looking at)

    So I'll preface this with the following: Engine is a fresh rebuild, see my other thread for that journey Manifold and elbows are brand new Mercruiser I checked all sealing surfaces for straightness prior to installing This is what happened on the old engine it seems though those had a confirmed...
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    How do you all like your remote oil filter setups?

    I'll be pulling the 4.3 out this winter to pull up the floor and make any repairs I find... but I was thinking of adding a remote oil filter setup to the engine. First, they aren't cheap by any means... and the filter isn't exactly bad to get to either. When I glassed in the mounts I notched the...
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    For those thinking about an engine swap...

    I'll just start out by saying unless you are infatuated with the boat and can't stand to replace it, you are much better off looking for the same boat with the power you want. Mine being an 84, there are few and far between that are still this clean and would have the power I want. So enter my...
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    Popped through the intake.

    Problem is different enough that rather than cluttering up my carb thread I figured it best to start a new thread. So what happened: Ran the boat today after rebuilding the carb. Ran for about 2.5 hours with an hour break in the middle. So out on the water for 3.5 hours total. Upon nearing the...
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    Carburetor question

    Long and short, I am working on a 4.3l with a carb that is running what I would call excessively rich. Boat ran for about an hour and while idling around produced more black soot and smoke on the transom than my 33 with twin diesels... Running on the hose results in eye watering and fuel smell...
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    Advice on a 4 winns restoration

    Good evening all. I've been on this forum in the past (lost the email and account access from a breach years ago so I am using this new one) and have long been contemplating this. To put it in perspective, I was a young young boy and frisco boaters posts on his two project boats at the time were...
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