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  1. Scott Danforth

    Title Issues

    You need to call the local registration office
  2. Scott Danforth

    Mercruiser 3.0 Leaking Water On Top of Manifold

    How did you winterize?
  3. Scott Danforth

    Re-powering a 1978 21' Starcraft Mariner - Engine Help!

    What's wrong with the existing motor? With maintenance it will out last all the new motors
  4. Scott Danforth

    1993 Carver 280 Express listing to port.

    Carvers of that vintage have lots of wood
  5. Scott Danforth

    I just got a 1980 Renken w/OMC stringer

    You were told wrong It didn't show more than 100 because there is no water in the block With cooling water, your exhaust temp is 200f Without cooling water, the exhaust temp is 1100f
  6. Scott Danforth

    This seems like a good job for AI

    NGK has a good cross reference
  7. Scott Danforth

    Sparkplug - carbon buildup - causes?

    My guess it the CTS is reading low and the motor never gets out of cold start mode. Have you checked fuel pressure? Do you have Rinda?
  8. Scott Danforth

    I just got a 1980 Renken w/OMC stringer

    Take the garden hose and connect it to the thermostat housing if you want to run it. However you toasted the rubber in the exhaust
  9. Scott Danforth

    I just got a 1980 Renken w/OMC stringer

    Not to mention without cooling water, you burned the rubber exhaust bits
  10. Scott Danforth

    1993 Carver 280 Express listing to port.

    May want to have it surveyed for moisture. Plenty of wood structure in that boat
  11. Scott Danforth

    I just got a 1980 Renken w/OMC stringer

    Usually when the floor rots the stringers and transom rotted decades earlier Check to see if the boat simply had a "deck-over" Deck over defined: Slap plywood over the rotten deck and sell it asap (boating equivalent to 5# of bondo filling in rust at a used car lot)
  12. Scott Danforth

    Removal of Flex Seal coating from hull?

    No, they are similar. Has to do with a boundary layer. Ask yourself why a golfball has 320 dimples. Or why a baseball has 108 stitches ( and why a batch of rough stitches 10 years ago made pitches faster) Same reason a row boat will want a rough surface
  13. Scott Danforth

    I just got a 1980 Renken w/OMC stringer

    Welcome aboard Free boats are often the most expensive OMC is obsolete, not outdated. The 1980 hydro-mechanical drive was a short-lived 3-year only problem child (78-80) quickly replaced with the full mechanical shift There are 3 separate gear boxes, not including the tilt clutch gearbox...
  14. Scott Danforth

    Volvo 4.3 Strange dipstick readings

    Measure the tube to the point 3.5" below the pan rail Measure the dipstick an put a mark that distance from the handle end
  15. Scott Danforth

    LiFePO Batteries ???

    Coolers of beer?
  16. Scott Danforth

    projects other than boats

    Recent posts by @tpenfield and @bruceb58 have me thinking about smaller LiFePO batteries as the battery in the Fiat..... Ooohhh another rabbit hole of knowledge searching. .. Needs to be small enough to fit, and be charged from a dumb alternator (this is a Luddite build) Thinking two AGM...
  17. Scott Danforth

    VP 8.1 GX-i running like crap

    Compression numbers? All 8 cylinders should be between 145 and 155 Fuel pressure? Have you sent the injectors out to be cleaned and flow checked? Beyond that, you need Rinda
  18. Scott Danforth

    Volvo 4.3 Strange dipstick readings

    Tube is correct, stick may be wrong. Oil level is about 3.5" below the top of the oil pan rail (bottom of block)
  19. Scott Danforth

    Pump question

    Look up the oildyne 108 manual (on the parker hydraulic we site)
  20. Scott Danforth

    Sea Ray camper tops fitment

    Slim to none
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