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  1. Lou C

    BMW headlight . . . $1,000 !!!

    Same for me Scott... In my '98 Grand Cherokee I've been running a set of Crown EU spec H-4 headlamps run off a Painless Wiring relay harness I installed over 20 years ago....the replacement Crown headlights are available from Quadratec Jeep parts for $55 each! In our '17 Wrangler, I am going to...
  2. Lou C

    Flushing Sea Ray 250 Sundancer in salt water... How To, and is it necessary?

    When you say stored in a marina, is it docked or in dry storage? When you shut the engine off actually the engine stays full of water and so do the exhaust manifolds, some drains out of the exhaust elbows though, that's why they rust the worst, because they are now exposed to air with salt...
  3. Lou C

    Outdrive service

    Go and get a pump and do this the right way, if you do not, you will burn up your upper gears and cost yourself a couple grand at least. It is a closed system once all the drain/fill plugs are installed. Whatever the capacity of the drive is listed as you must get that much oil in it. PS there's...
  4. Lou C

    Vapor Lock

    What year or mode # Volvo? The older ones used Prestolite units then they switched to the Delco EST…..
  5. Lou C

    Vapor Lock

    Another cause if that could be a bad ignition coil breaking down with heat. Not common but it can happen.
  6. Lou C

    Vapor Lock

    Vapor lock occurs when the fuel in the carb bowl gets so hot it boils and then it doesn't atomize well. In the old days we used carb insulators and insulated fuel lines going over hot parts of the engine. On Pre-Votec engines there is an exhaust crossover in the intake that heats the area under...
  7. Lou C

    Mercruiser 350 MAG MPI missing only at 3000 rpms

    Interesting I’d say the center insulator makes it look like it’s running lean but the steel shell looks like there are carbon carbon deposits or maybe oil. What’s your engine temp & how’s the oil consumption?
  8. Lou C

    S A F E T Y B R I E F I N G

    We can watch the fireworks from our back porch, from the neighboring towns and can even see the ones from Connecticut across Long Island Sound.....
  9. Lou C

    My 84 4winns horizon 195 project.

    Something special about a vintage boat restored to better than new…..
  10. Lou C

    My 84 4winns horizon 195 project.

    Beautiful work!
  11. Lou C

    1994 Chris Craft Concept 197 Bimini Top Question

    you can see it in this pic.....it's either that or mount it on the gunnels, with these sliders you can push it all the way back or forward depending on what you want....
  12. Lou C

    1994 Chris Craft Concept 197 Bimini Top Question

    My Four Winns had those same mounts, they are for the convertible top which mounted to the front of the windshield. You can’t use those for a Bimini top because the normal movement of it will stress the side window/frame. What I did was mount slider brackets on the coaming panels and mount the...
  13. Lou C

    Frustrating Cooling System Issues

    If you don’t have raw water flow from your heat exchanger to the exhaust system you can overheat and that water should be going out the exhaust ports on the outdrive or else you will overheat. The raw water flow is what picks up the heat from the antifreeze in the heat exchanger. So in a...
  14. Lou C

    UUUUGGGHHH

    We had the same thing crazy hot for 4 days now we’re in the 70s. Fine by me!
  15. Lou C

    Clever way to dry dock test new bellows for leaks

    I know when Volvo came out with the replacement for the ocean series drive one of the features that was to be included was a moisture sensor inside the bellows. I don’t know if this made it to production or not but it’s an interesting idea for sure. I guess I’ve been lucky but I haven’t had...
  16. Lou C

    older carburetated mercruiser 5.7 hard start

    In some cases I guess you might be able to get it off the starter without removing it, but you'll just have to do what you have to do to get in there. On my boat I remove the driver side of the rear seat and the wood partitions and then slide the battery backwards and I can get at it. Looks...
  17. Lou C

    1989 Sea Ray 200 BR Interior rebuild and new layout

    The boat builders are definitely at fault as well, they did all they could to stuff in more seats, and features, all of which are in the way of mechanics. That made the maintenance more difficult, time consuming and expensive. You CAN design it for easy access for most things, all it takes is...
  18. Lou C

    older carburetated mercruiser 5.7 hard start

    It’s bolted to the starter with 2 bolts.
  19. Lou C

    1989 Sea Ray 200 BR Interior rebuild and new layout

    I’m getting anxiety thinking about doing a starter or God forbid a steering actuator with a set up like that. Even the oil filter if not remote will be difficult. It looks great and has a lot of seating but if you do all your own work the dog house is the easiest way to go. I have the full width...
  20. Lou C

    UUUUGGGHHH

    That's what I thought. You call PSEG LI and you have 2 options, either report a service outage or report a downed wire/emergency To get to talk to a person, I had to do #2 even though it's not an emergency A truck came by last nite, don't know what they did this morning it was up to 119V Now...
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