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  1. Lou C

    Fried the 4th impeller kit? (OMC 2.3)

    Ok you will have better luck with better fitting muffs than running it in a tub. The best fitting muffs I have found are the round Merc/Quicksilver ones with the metal rod/clamp that goes through the water intake holes. You will have to drill an 1/8” hole in the plastic water screen to use these...
  2. Lou C

    Are Four Winns know to have strong hulls? Installing a tower

    you might try emailing Four Winns and asking them, I did that when I had a question about replacing the foam under the deck when I replaced most of the deck 15 years ago.
  3. Lou C

    First boat is it worth it?

    Keep in mind that I/os used to have big cost advantage over outboards with respect to parts prices. This is no longer true and one reason is the they all have EFI now and after 2010 many have cat converter exhaust. This greatly increases repair costs and to me was the nail in the coffin for...
  4. Lou C

    First boat is it worth it?

    This is why I said what I said. Take the $36k and please please buy a late model boat with outboard power! Else you and your significant other may wide up HATING BOATING!
  5. Lou C

    First boat is it worth it?

    At home on the trailer the boat never moves, on the mooring it is always moving a bit, so no water really collects. Even after a tropical storm like we had a few weeks ago with 45 mph wind and buckets of rain.
  6. Lou C

    First boat is it worth it?

    It does not matter if it was in the water or not. Your house gets wood rot, right, its not in the water, its moisture in the air. Freshwater boats rot from rain water and accumulated moisture. Salt water actually does not cause rot like fresh water because the microorganisms that cause rot can't...
  7. Lou C

    First boat is it worth it?

    Ask him if he has pix, were the stringers and deck done? If he spent that much to do all that he should. I do and will give them to whoever buys mine. I have receipts from the 'glass shop for the work they did too.
  8. Lou C

    ANOTHER WATER IN OIL QUESTION

    True that's why I was leaning toward replacing the heads on mine even if they were not cracked. The machinist felt all the cooling ports were getting eroded in the heads. 15+ years of raw water cooling in salt. Who knows how close these were to rotting through. Here I have never heard of a block...
  9. Lou C

    First boat is it worth it?

    Actually I have more problems with moisture in my boat when its in the driveway than when its on the mooring. Even after a big storm there is hardly any water inside but in the driveway, it always seems more wet.
  10. Lou C

    First boat is it worth it?

    IF you can even find a shop that will do the work and do it right, and it will take a couple months to get done. To do this job right you are pulling the engine, outdrive, transom mount and gutting the interior. I did only a partial deck replacement.
  11. Lou C

    First boat is it worth it?

    The wood is underneath all the fancy upholstery and wrap etc. Fiberglass itself is not that rigid. To make it rigid, you have the hull reinforced with stringers (like floor joists in a house) that run front to rear, the transom is cored with 2 layers of plywood, the deck is all plywood on top of...
  12. Lou C

    First boat is it worth it?

    If you want I can post up pics of my deck replacement that was done 15 years ago and you can judge if you want to risk buying a boat that old and then one day you step on a part of the deck and feel that sickening crunch of a rotted deck. Now mine is still good but no more old boats for me. That...
  13. Lou C

    ANOTHER WATER IN OIL QUESTION

    I had no problems getting my shop (SK SpeedShop in Long Island NY) to magnaflux my old heads and it clearly showed the cracks from a previous overheat. I think they charged me $40 or so to check them out. And they found another shop that sells reman heads and I was able to buy a pair of pre...
  14. Lou C

    First boat is it worth it?

    Still too much given the risks in buying a boat that age with wood under glass construction
  15. Lou C

    Fried the 4th impeller kit? (OMC 2.3)

    Correct forgot to mention that.
  16. Lou C

    First boat is it worth it?

    If you’re married those 4 hotties will cost you your house forget about the boat! You’ll have to live in the cuddly cabin!
  17. Lou C

    ANOTHER WATER IN OIL QUESTION

    I think he should have magnafluxed the heads and you should always check the block for flatness. Use a precision straight edge and feeler gauges should be less than .003” variation. Also very fast important is to clean out out the cyl head bolt holes in the block with a thread chaser because...
  18. Lou C

    First boat is it worth it?

    It's a cool boat but my concern would be with the wood structure in the transom, motor mounts and stringers. That price is crazy high. For that much here in the US you could get a year old 20' with a modern 4 stroke outboard which would be a far better choice. So my recommendation is to pass on...
  19. Lou C

    ANOTHER WATER IN OIL QUESTION

    I had this same concern when I did mine, the block deck I cleaned up really well and looked at it with a magnifier and it looked good, so I took a gamble with reman heads and new gaskets. But unless you have a machine shop inspect the block and heads, there is always that element of the unknown.
  20. Lou C

    Replaced rubber impeller now won't shift to neutral??

    if you continue to buy I/O boats you will use it alot. Now for me, I am having only outboards in the future, but my brother just bought a 2020 Chapparal with a Merc Alpha and we can service that one ourselves the same way and save a lot of $$$. Been doing my own outdrive work for approx 15 years...
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