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  1. JASinIL2006

    Need help locating replacement circulating pump hose

    Hi all, this year when I winterize, I want to replace the standard circulating pump hose with one that has a drain valve. The engine is a 350 Mag with raw water cooling (serial number in my signature below). I have seen pictures of this (see below) but I have checked a number of sites and I...
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    Replace 4.3L with 5.7L in Rinker Captiva 192

    Hi all, a friend of mine has a 2006 Rinker Captiva 192 Alpha One Gen 2 that he bought nearly new, although when he purchased it, the original engine had been replaced with a 1998 4.3L. (I don't know what happened to the original, but I suspect it was ruined and replaced with an older motor so...
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    Gelcoat repair

    Well, today I was launching into the Mississippi River and chipped the gelcoat below the waterline. I clipped (at very slow speed) a metal retaining wall that borders the boat ramp. Because the river is up, the top of the wall was about 6” below the surface and as I was backing of the trailer...
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    sourcing boat windshield

    Hi all, A buddy of mine has a '06 Rinker Captiva 192 that took some damage during a windstorm. A shelter fell and smashed the center walk-thru window to the bow seats, as well as a curved section on the starboard side (pics below). He was quoted the usual ridiculous price to replace it (like...
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    iBoats forum keeps wanting me to update my browser (even though it is current)

    Just now, after logging into the forums, instead of being directed to the main forum page, I was presented with a splash screen asking me to update Firefox by clicking a button. This has happened once or twice before (on a different machine), and both times I just ignored it and re-clicked on my...
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    Apparently, I'm not much of an auto mechanic...

    I've been servicing my wife's '13 Toyota Sienna minivan (2wd, about 115,000 miles), and I have a front end rattle that has persisted despite my having serviced a bunch of stuff that needed to be replaced. I've posted my question on a vehicle-specific forum, but they don't always have a ton of...
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    Bye bye, Hippo?

    I've been pleasantly surprised to notice that ridiculous and nonsensical hippo logo disappearing from the web pages and the commercial site. Is it gone for good? That was one change I never understood. (Not to mention it was hard to tell what the logo even was supposed to represent.) If, in...
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    Dodged a bullet!

    Since there's no hockey to watch on TV, and we're trying to limit our contact with other people, I decided it was a good time to service the bearings and brakes on my boat trailer. I popped off the Bearing Buddies and the grease inside the hubs looked pretty good on one side (starboard), and...
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    Getting ready to re-wire the trailer

    I'm getting ready to re-wire my single axle trailer. It is build with tube construction (2'x3" tube, I think) and one of my tasks is to drill holes in the side of the frame near the axles for my electric brake wires. Currently the wires run inside the tubes from the tongue of the trailer all...
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    What happened to my boat restoration thread???

    I was just looking for something in my boat restoration thread that I thought might help another member, and I cannot find the topic anymore... it is linked in my signature, but that link (which has worked in the past) now just dumps me at the main forum page. Transom and Deck Restoration...
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    Forum hosed yet again...

    This s what I’m seeing tonight...
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    Harbor Freight 3 ton floor jack

    I am in the market for a shop floor jack strong enough to lift my F150. Harbor freight has some 3 ton floor jacks for about $100. I was just wondering if anyone has any experience with these?
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    Thursday night problems

    The forums really are slow as molasses tonight, if pages load at all. Lots of ‘server stopped responding’ and 502 Bad Gateway errors...
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    Class IV drawbar with 3” drop?

    I just replaced my 15 year old F150 with a new model, and I’m trying to find a drawbar. I hve an adjustable drawbar and my trailer leveled out when it was set at a 3” drop. Unfortunately, it seems as though pretty much every stock drop bar for a 2 inch receiver hitch is for either a 2 inch or...
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    Nearly had a towing disaster

    We were getting ready to leave a week ago on a trip and we had planned to bring the boat. We were going to drive about 4 hours from here, around Chicago into northwest Indiana. I haven't had the boat out yet this season due to Midwest flooding, so a couple of days before we left, I pulled the...
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    Intrusive drop down menus

    Is there any way to change the drop down menu that appears whenever the cursor goes over the bar that contains "Shop Boats For Sale Community Search"? Anytime you cursor over that area at the top of the page, the menu covers 3/4 of the screen and stays there until you move...
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    Alpha One Gen 2 drive won't hold pressure - where to check for leaks?

    Trying to get the boat ready for the summer. I have drained the gear lube and was pressure testing my A1G2 drive before refilling. Over the winter, I did nothing to it (except drain the lube) and it sat in my basement. I pumped the drive to 10 psi and let it go about 10 minutes. I turned the...
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    Problems with "New Topic"

    There seems to be a new problem with how the forum is rendering (at least in Firefox on Win10 and on my iPad with most recent iOS): on all pages except the main forum page, the grey bar that contains the 'New Topic" button never scrolls out of sight; it maintains it place on the screen, even if...
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    Forum messed up again...

    It looks like something on form header is screwed up... I had to page down about 30 screens to see any of the forum screens.
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    Spark plug change in ‘05 Ford Triton 5.4 liter 3 valve engine

    Since my F150 finally hit 100,000 miles, I figured I couldn’t put off changing spark plugs any longer. I’ve been dreading this, because these are the two-piece plugs with a really long barrel below the threaded section. The barrels have a tendency to get coated in carbon, which often causes the...
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