Brand on a 39 year old boat won’t matter, even if it was top of the line in 1985 that won’t translate to any better condition since it’s known that boats rot from the inside out
Distilled means distilled. Boiled and steam collected, and condensed. Its not expensive at the grocery store… that said I’m sure tap water has been used in a battery or 2 through the years
I/O boats are are never easy to work on. The stringer drive transfers the thrust directly to the stringers. It doesn’t put much pressure on the transom under way, so the mounts are tied to the stringers. You can’t change that. And you need to make sure that the stringers are solid. The black...
here in Ny. I don’t think the lakes are freezing too fast. Kind of makes me want to take a winter lap around the small local one. But I’d have to drive an hour in the opposite direction to pick up the boat from inside winter storage
My mom just fell for one. But it didn’t end as pleasant. The scammers took remote control of her computer and compromised the entire windows install.. she had to reset passwords and notify everyone what happened.. she’s picking up a new computer from me this weekend, which has Bit Defender and...
1989 Maxum is also Bayliners cousin. Personally I would assess the cost and weigh the dump fee and selling trailer to recover your cost.. $10-20k into a boat that is 34 years old doesn’t make that much sense when you could save the same money. and buy a newer boat in the 2-3 years of nights...
Everything online says 150hp rating so it should be as good as it can be. If the decal on the boat itself is higher, if 150hp is within 75% of that your good to go. If it’s 50% or under your going to notice
I have a 1971 Offshore V18 that has to sit outside ( Holiday 14 gets inside storage ) . I built a triangle support system that sits ontop of the gunnels, and kind of locks in. Secured with a few zip ties and the cover itself. I have supports that go to the floor as well. It never collects anything
DIY. Professional would be that plus a crap ton of labor at $100 plus per hour. It would be probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 hours, so $10k in labor give or take on the low end
2003 may be a project, it may not.
A safe bet is to avoid a glass boat and get a nice tin boat. Even a later fish and ski from sylvan or StarCraft/smokercraft or even an older Bluefin. You will find one in your price range. Tin boats eliminate 90% of the structural wood. The only remaining wood...
I doubt you will find parts, if ever. It was only used by very few manufacturers in a very short time frame. You can convert the boat to R/MR/ Alpha pretty easily.
I’ve actually thought about using the cam sensor for an older 2.3L Ford. The earlier ones basically had it as a drop In distributor but it was only a sensor. Sniper could operate off such signal. I’m not sure how much it would take to make it work though
True. I knew that an MSD box will trigger on points. Using the white wire if I recall correctly. I’ve only ever set them up with Duraspark distributors. A 6-BTM and an automotive distributor of some sort is probably what I should do.
