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    Add cup, or more pitch, or go stainless?

    I have a 15' vee hulled runabout, a 1969 Glasspar with a constant vee (don't know the deadrise angle exactly) and I am running a Honda 45 on it. The engine has the standard equipment 11 //4 X 13" pitch three blade aluminum wheel on it. The cav plate is even with the bottom of the hull, there is...
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    Spiderweb in the tach

    Well I posted about some tach problems a day or two ago. I found a cruddy connection causing low voltage on the power wire, but it still did not work. Well over a couple Captain 'N Cokes (practicing for the Captain Morgan pose off ya know:cool:) my friend and I were tinkering with the boat in...
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    Voltage to tach Honda 45

    A long time back Skinnywater replied to a post of mine- I needed to find the wire diagram for the tach. Well black with yellow tracer he said was the 12v source, the grey was signal. Now at idle I have 5.5 volts to the tach on the b/y wire. Now is the no workee tach due to this, or is that an...
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    You ain't gonna believe this!

    I talked to a buddy Sunday, he had gone out that day with his boat and when he went to put it on the trailer, it got stuck in reverse (88 Evinrude V4) due to a cable end coming off his linkage. So here he is trying to get his boat to the trailer and it's stuck in reverse, then he shuts it off...
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    Pic of the red Capri with the wakeboard tower

    Does anyone have that pic saved, the one of the red painted Capri with the wakeboard tower? I found the post but the pics are not hosted anymore. I have a friend to send the pic to and can't find it anymore.
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    Infant life preservers

    Does anybody make a true "infant" life preserver? Our six month old son is 16lbs and 26" long stem to stern. We bought him an "infant" life preserver, and it is way too long for his torso. If we try to put it on and zip it, it covers half his face and he begins screaming, the fabric scratches...
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    Power to tach on BF45A Honda

    On the pigtail coming out of the side mount remote controls there are three wires, one lead is Grey, one is Black with a yellow tracer, and one is solid black. My tach quit working- I want to check the wires coming from the remote to the tach to see if it is getting power there- what sort of...
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    Honda BF45 alarm problems

    A week or so back I posted this- http://forums.iboats.com/showthread.php?t=196975 I have since used a fiberoptic bore scope to peek up the water tube from water pump to powerhead, found it clear- then looked up the exhaust tube, again clear, and in the thermostat hole, and cylinders. NO signs...
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    Possible blown head gasket Honda BF45A

    Hello all- A year ago I bought a used BF45A with controls for a screaming deal of $650 to run on my 15' Glasspar runabout. It has been a really good motor until this problem- I overheated it running on the flusher, the impeller bit the dust. I was busy washing down the boat and did not notice...
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