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    Water in gas tank?

    17 ft starcraft aluminum bass boat. How much would a shop charge to pull out gas tank and drain it? It has water in the tank.
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    Merc350 kickhaffer mercury 35 hp

    What is a running 1969 merc350 kickhaffer 35 hp mercury outboard worth with controls?
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    Username/forum id

    Hello, Administration how do I change my user name, forum id name.
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    Filler for small spot on fiberglass boat

    I have a sprint fiberglass boat. I removed back pedestal mount and notice the wood in that spot rotten. It's a small rectangle spot in between doors. It's about 12 inches x 16 inches by 1 inch thick spot. Has hole on top 2 inch diameter and hole below same size into live well. Such a small...
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    Burnt spark plug

    What would cause a spark plug to burn down/away the center electro. And the burn away the little arm that goes over the center electrod. 2 stroke 2 cylinder Tohatsu 40hp. When I say burnt the center electrod, I mean gone. But gotta give it to Tohatsu, it still was running top notch. Mod EDIT...
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    Value of 17ft champion

    I have a 1998 17 ft champion bass boat hull. New transom. Everything on boat is gorgeous. Wanting to sell it, boat hull only. Blue book value puts it between $1600 to $1800. No motor or trolling. How much is a fair price to ask for it? Please help by giving me a amount that would be fair.
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    Tach/hour meter issue.

    Just received one of those cheap digital tachometer /hour meter. I have to extend the cord it came with about four more feet. Directions state "no spliceing" but I know there has to be a smart enough person on this site that can tell me how it can be done. Wire is two 26 gauge wires in one 1/4...
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    Mounting thermostat sensor

    Here is a picture of my M40C Tohatsu thermostat housing. Can I drill and tap this to put thermostat sensor for temperature gauge?
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    The Flat bottom boat slide.

    I figure this has probably been addressed already, but I gotta ask. I have fourteen foot boat that I cut in half(straight down the middle) and added 2 1/2 foot down the middle, now I have close to a 5 1/2 foot bottom boat, decked out no leaks. 40 hp on it and of course it slides pretty bad in...
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    One cylinder, two spark plugs?

    First off I really want to thank everyone here on being so cool with me. I am a new member and have received positive feed back. Now for yet another question, my Tohatsu 2 cylinder has both spark plugs going to one coil. How's that work? I am asking because I am getting a motorcycle tachometer...
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    Hairline crack at spark plug holes in cylinder head

    Ok, another question. Replacing headgasket on M40C Tohatsu. Found each spark plug hole has about a half inch hairline crack, the cracks go up the threads and down the cylinder piston cup. Can't ignore it, have to bring it to machine shop to fix. Does anyone know about how much this should cost...
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    M40C outboard head bolts grade.

    Replacing blown headgasket on my Tohatsu M40C, ordered headgasket from this site, but didn't notice until after ordering gasket that my old head bolts were rusted and pitted. The bolts only marking is a lower case b on them. I cannot find anything about these bolts as far as grade. I am going to...
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    Tohatsu M40C outboard only runs wot, and backfires, I mean real fire thru carburetor

    My Tohatsu M40C outboard overheated a couple times 2 trips ago. Both times killed and waited for cool down and idled back to boat launch. Change cracked impeller, and figured while I was working on it, did a carburetor rebuild. Well before the overheating trip the motor would on start on choke...
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