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  1. dingbat

    95 Reinneil- Temp gauge jumping up and down

    Your boat is not a car a with closed, loop, pressurized cooling system. Your boat is a raw water, open loop cooled. Temp fluctuations with varying engine loads is normal and expected
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    Can i cut my bunks down?

    Check your tongue weight……most trailers are setup to handle boats in 2 ft. increments. Since you hanging two feet off the back, either your tongue weight is light or the trailer is too long to begin with In short, you set the boat on the trailer to obtain proper tongue weight (center of gravity...
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    Can't prime my fuel line

    Try tilting the motor up, then hold primer bulb vertical while priming
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    Marine Insurance

    I never stay with a boat insurer more than a couple of years to keep them honest. Bounce back and forth between Boat US and Progressive. Home owners, property, auto and umbrella are all with the same company. Policy for the boat with same company was nutz priced
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    Aluminum trailer boating in salt

    Salt is only hard on Fe alloyed materials. As long as galvanic contact with more noble metals is avoided, most aluminum structural alloys, 1000 (commercially pure), 3000 (AlMn), 5000 (AlMg) and 6000 (AlMgSi) series, are resistant to corrosion in sea water, especially the so-called seawater...
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    Aluminum trailer boating in salt

    Saltwater isn’t acid. If your that concerned, drop the boat in a freshwater river or lake on the way home and go for a ride The “wash the boat immediately after exiting the water” mentality quickly goes away once you figure out nothing happens if you don’t rinse immediately…..lol Then again...
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    Stereo Replacement Wiring Questions

    Always confirm, never assume. According to the manual, yellow is Memory (battery), red is main power (ignition) and the black wire is ground. More than likely the orange wire is a primary positive feed. Would want to tie ignition (red) into orange if you want the radio on w/o the ignition on...
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    Water in fuel

    Stabil is a winter stabilizer. Top off tank with 93 octane E10 (93 to replace lost octane, ethanol to absorb excess water) and go boating.
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    Honda BF75 "Making Oil" – Need Help with Thermostat in Cold Climate

    It’s not the temp of the cooling water causing the problem. Its simply a heat transfer mechanism used to transfer “excess” heat away from the motor. The real problem is not getting the engine (block and oil) up to operating temperature (~ 230 degree) and keeping it there long enough to...
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    Curious to what type of steering this is and what is a replacement for it.

    If you boat in the cold, hydraulics are not your friend. Think space shuttle disaster. It’s not if they leak, it’s when they leak
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    Need better hole shot

    along with much less weight and deadrise…….
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    SeaNymph parts? Need Bow “nosepiece”

    Looks to be cast aluminum or "white"(pot) metal. Good luck welding either
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    Honda BF75 "Making Oil" – Need Help with Thermostat in Cold Climate

    There is little correlation between an open loop cooling water circuit and oil temps. You need to get the oil up to operating temperature and keep it there long enough to evaporate the moisture out of the oil. What do you consider a "long run"? The cooling water temp is going to naturally drop...
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    Baltimore bridge hit by ship, collapsed

    https://www.keybridgeresponse2024.com/post/update-10-multimedia-release-salvage-operations-continue-at-site-of-key-bridge-incident
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    Transom

    This is the 24th season for my boat. Overhead people (dad's) several times pointing out my "fishing boat" to their sons at the dock. Don't know if I should feel proud or depressed because I'm old...lol
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    What thinketh the membership here..... Useful or just hype

    That makes no sense......how do passengers get in and out of the boat?
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    What thinketh the membership here..... Useful or just hype

    Cant see the picture but sounds like your working with tapered finger pier
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    What thinketh the membership here..... Useful or just hype

    Im not following……the dock isn’t parallel to the ramp?
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    Honda BF75 "Making Oil" – Need Help with Thermostat in Cold Climate

    Guessing you’re running a 140 thermostat. Thermostat should not open until engine temp reaches 140 then regulate at that temp. I’m run stock 140 with by-pass hole, but had situations where we had to drill a hole in the non-vented stat to prevent the motor from overheating at idle. Had to...
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    battery charging issue has me stumped

    Certainly missed the part about 4 different batteries No apparent voltage change would suggest “normal” operation but im guessing no apparent voltage change means the voltage changes as before…lol Odds are they are not bad, but he still has not ruled out that the voltage he’s looking at is not...
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