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    Shift Lever Question

    I'm asking how involved DIYing a shift lever is. You don't need to know my abilities, although I am a super-talented, well-rounded, very personable, highly intelligent, multi-skilled person.
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    Shift Lever Question

    2008 50HP Merc. Suntracker Party Barge 18. What I'm asking is whether this is a DIY thing. Can I get into that shift level and see what's disconnecting, or is that something best done by my boat mechanic?
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    Shift Lever Question

    2008 Suntracker Party Barge . . . . Up Trim does not work when remote shift lever is in forward. It seems like something is probably getting disconnected with shift lever in that position. Any thoughts . . . is this a DIY thing?
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    Two Piling Boat Lift

    Any thoughts about a two-piling lift for a 2000# boat in a SW FL canal?
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    Hard Starting Tohatsu M115A

    Kill switch?
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    Hard Starting Tohatsu M115A

    I've owned boats 53 years. New-to-us boat and motor, just getting used to it. Run maybe a couple of hours. Battery is good. Gas is fresh. Squeeze bulb, move fast idle lever, choke, crank . . . crank . . . crank. Nothing. Then, starts and runs great. Same thing every time. Don't know why it...
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    Freshwater Boat to Saltwater

    A U.S. Navy research team has discovered an alloy for making better, cheaper underwater anodes with the potential for shifting the global business of maintaining ships and piers. A patent application was published by the federal government on Thursday for the new aluminum anode alloy containing...
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    Freshwater Boat to Saltwater

    I have an online meeting with Florida DEP about the canal dredging. I started trying to get that done ten years ago!!!!!
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    Caliber Bunk Wraps

    Spellcheck?
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    Caliber Bunk Wraps

    My wife was concerned about moisture that gets trapped under the bunk wrap, so I thought if you sealed where water could get there, that wouldn't happen. I'm thinking if you don't sealed it, water is going to get under the wrap, and not be able to dry. But what would I know? Oh, yeah, the...
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    Caliber Bunk Wraps

    I just finished wrapping four bunks with Caliber Bunk Wrap. . . . . . . What would be a difficult product to install is made easy with a simple Velcro strap technique. My wife would say that a lady came up with that idea!!!! . . . . . . . I'm thinking what would be a finishing touch would be to...
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    Flushing a Tohatsu M115A

    Mine arrived today. There is no way to attach a garden hose, so I asked. They said cut off the end of a garden hose and slide the hose over the attachment. - - - - - - I hate to jinx it, but the '95 Hurricane FunDeck my wife had us get is really sweet. We've had it out on Table Rock Lake...
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    Freshwater Boat to Saltwater

    A point of confusion is there are a lot of rental pontoons in our area, and they're all just sitting in the water, either in wet slips or alongside a dock. So, the uninformed figure if that's how people in the business do it, it must be OK. I'm sharing this with my wife, and in case she...
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    Freshwater Boat to Saltwater

    Good point, and I've seen that when anode shopping online.
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    Freshwater Boat to Saltwater

    Apr 25, 2021 Add bookmark #8 If anyone is still interested, I am one who has a leaky toon thread, and who prompted the Leaky Toon article in BoatUS magazine, if anyone saw that. One of our tubes pitted from galvanic corrosion, which we discovered when the pontoon was listed to starboard, the...
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    Flushing a Tohatsu M115A

    https://www.tohatsu.us/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1000_1032_1403_1404_11077&products_id=107849 Oops, It does not show the M115A, and only goes back to '96. Mine is a '95. I've asked Tohatsu. - - - - - - Tohatsu said that's the right one . . . all 115 lower units are the same.
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    Flushing a Tohatsu M115A

    Thanks. I've seen that online, but the models listed were less HP ones. That sure looks like it. Has anyone used that? Here it is in the manual: https://www.tohatsu.com/marine/common/owners_manual/pdf/Toh115A.pdf Page 50 I assume you tape over the underwater strainers and that forces fresh...
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    Flushing a Tohatsu M115A

    I meant to say "without" muffs, the whole reason I'm asking about the Flushing port. I've read the manual and it isn't helpful, other that letting you know it's there. I've asked Tohatsu, to see if they have a flushing attachment. I google-found one, but not for that motor model.
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    Freshwater Boat to Saltwater

    To give the dealer/salesman a bit of credit, he said bottom paint isn't necessary if we keep the boat on a lift. I have a marine handyman I can ask, but when I mentioned I switched to aluminum anodes a couple years ago, he was clueless. Of course, I don't think he knows what Google is and...
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    Freshwater Boat to Saltwater

    Now that someone at the dealership has answered, and said it needs bottom paint unless it's going to be kept on a lift, any advice on getting that done in the Port Charlotte/Englewood/Venice area? 19-foot Hurricane FunDeck. Any thoughts on who, where, and how much? My wife thanks you.
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