Sorry to hear that your boat got dented most of the time when I run into the corner of the docks everybody worries about damage to the dock.
I guess that they don't make these new boats the way they did ones like mine from the mid- late 90s.
We don't have the luxury of having somebody else put...
Do you do that off of a dock so you can see the bubbles. Do you snorkle around and under the boat to look for bubbles? I hear a lot of people talking about shooting 2 PSI into the toons but I've never seen it done. Do you hire a diver to look for leaks while you hook up the air compresser? Or...
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...
I keep my old 18 footer in my drivway and have a battery charger that keeps all three batteries charged. I put some tape over the end of the tell tale-"weep hole" hose to keep ants and wasps out of it. I rebuilt my boat myself so it has fewer problems than the original. I replaced the original...
4 cyl. like mine. I run it on a 18 foot pontoon boat. Good old motor for a greenhorn like me. I don't think mine has a thermostat in it because I shot water out by way of the coolant tube when I had the lower gear housing off to change the water pump.
Logical question. It is a 1985 50 hp Mercury outboard and I realize now that I can't expect water to shoot out instantly because it takes time for the water to get through the system.
By the way a couple of years ago it did have a clog and I had to pull the weep hole hose off and I shot lube...
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...
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...
Spark-fuel-compression. My 50 hp. did the same thing this spring so I checked the compression on each cylinder and took the carburetors into a shop and had them cleaned and rebuilt. While waiting on the carbs to be rebuilt I checked the spark and found that I had spark to half of the cylinders...
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...
If you don't use marine plywood you can expect to replace the deck every three to five years. Maybe sooner if you lay carpet on top of regular plywood because it just helps the wood rot quicker.
I replaced my decking with marine grade plywood and painted it with Tuff Coat paint. Then I raise...
I checked an replaced nearly all of the electrical components on mine and the problem was a bad ground for two of the coils. I had to jump a new ground wire to the bolt that those two coils were grounded to.
I am thinking about trying to hang a piece of cloth over those open carburetors to keep debris out when I trailer it down the road. I could keep them cleaner if the boat was on the water all of the time.
The boat ran good today on a lake I made several trips into the west wind and back to the dock before I loaded onto the trailer in the cross wind. I don't know if I ran it at wot or not but it was moving along at a good pace and really purred along nicely. I think that the boat is dependable...
I just watched a great youtube video from -Born Again Boating- called "Follow these steps-Why outboards run out of fuel. I really like how he shows how to check for air leaks in the system. I will try to find more of videos from this source and maybe subscribe.
