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  1. jburn25

    Aluminum seat/livewell

    Many center console boats have a seat in front of the center console and often times the seat is actually a livewell or storage bin. I'm sure yall are all familiar. I'm looking to get a small aluminum livewell to put in front of my console on my aluminum center console boat. Do you know any...
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    Removing fiberglass (grinding?)

    Re: Removing fiberglass (grinding?) ok, those were a tad bit too small to use for anything so here's some enlarged versions. You can see in the bottom of one of the pictures where the welds have cracked where the ribs meet at the bottom and side of the boat.
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    Removing fiberglass (grinding?)

    Re: Removing fiberglass (grinding?) Here's some pictures of the fiberglass on the ribs of the boat and around the bottom of the console. On the rib in front of the console you may be able to see the pieces of angle aluminum that are running along each side.
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    Removing fiberglass (grinding?)

    I've got about fifteen projects going on at one time in my boat, but my main goal is to make the boat very sturdy and capable to handle chop without rattling apart. So I ordered some AV rivnuts (wellnuts) to attach the deck to the bottom of the boat with. Yesterday I took the deck out of the...
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    Adjusting Throttle Linkage on 70hp

    I have a 1986 Yamaha 70hp two-stroke oil injected motor that runs great, but I'm having one minor problem. When I shift the boat into gear there's some "slack" before it actually gets to an idle. In other words, when I shift into gear I have to push the throttle lever up pretty far before it...
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    Securing flooring to bottom of boat

    My 17 foot aluminum center console has plywood flooring in the boat that is attached with self drilling screws. In fact, the floor and the center console are both attached like that. When I purchased the boat, used, the boat floor and console were solid and nothing shifted or rattled no matter...
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    Pirogue/canoe rack for boat

    My next project for my boat is to build a removable pirogue rack for my boat so that I can haul my pirogue(s) in the boat on the way to my hunting spot. I have a 17' CC aluminum flat bottom boat, and before I started drawing up plans I figured I'd check and see if anyone else had built one for...
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    building a Lean Post for center console boat?

    I'm sorry for asking so many questions, you guys really help me and other boaters out alot. There's many years of experience floating around these forums. My new question, is has anyone ever built or considered building a lean post for their center console boat? My 17x60 aluminum center...
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    Center Console Windshield and Grab Bar

    Hi, I recently purchased a 17' aluminum flat boat with a center console. Boat is in great shape etc but the original owner never had a windshield on the console. I have found a few places that sell (cabelas) plexiglass boat windshields that should fit my 24" wide aluminum console just fine...
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    adding a fuel gauge to aluminum gas tank

    I just bought a new (used) 17' aluminum flat boat that has a 12 gallon aluminum tank mounted under the center console. First off, I'm not totally convinced that the gas tank under the CC is such a great idea with all of the electrical wires etc running around it. This is beside the point (for...
  11. jburn25

    Hydroturf boat lining. Any experiences?

    have any of you used the hydroturf stuff that mud buddy puts on their boats? It's a closed cell foam that they line the inside of their boats with. Deadens sound, insulates from hot/cold, doesn't absorb water etc. I'm interested in putting some down on the floors and deck of my aluminum boat...
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    1980 Evinrude is struggling

    I've got a 1980 25hp evinrude tiller handle motor that's been through some hard times. I posted on here a few years ago about one night when i was out frogging and the motor blew up (long story). Anyways, got it back running for a while, but now it's giving me trouble again. For about the last...
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    Unknown Water cooling part thingy

    I'm trying to figure out how to order a part I need for a 1980 Evinrude 25hp tiller handle motor, but the problem is that I don't know what it is called and can't find it on the parts list. My water tube was clogged on a recent outing and I couldn't find my weed eater string to stick up in it...
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    25hp Evinrude Water Pump

    Do all outboards have an above the water "viewable" water pump? My friend got a new (used) evinrude 25hp tiller handle (E25TELCSA) and during a recent boating trip we noticed it was smoking a little bit. I asked if it was still peeing out water and he said "no". We had been through some shallow...
  15. jburn25

    Drive Shaft

    My cousin has a home made "go-devil" type long shaft mud motor that we are having problems with. No matter what we do we can't get the drive shaft and coupler to stay in contact and not slip. We had the shaft keyed and put set screws in the coupler but it still shears. The key actually sheared...
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    Painting an Aluminum Boat?!?

    I've been researching on the internet for about a month now and I keep getting different answers. I've got an old aluminum boat that I bought for cheap and I want to paint it for duck hunting. I'm not worried about camouflages at this point, but rather just getting a good base layer of paint on...
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    Crazy Story. Dead Motor?

    THIS IS A LONG POST, BUT THE STORY IS WORTH IT AND I CAN USE ALL THE ADVICE I CAN GET. THANKS I've grown up fishing and hunting so I'm not new to the outdoors. I am, however, new to boats and boat motors. I've fished with friends etc in their boats, but I'd never owned my own boat till about a...
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