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  1. Scott Danforth

    1988 Vp 290 dp trim problem

    your trim cylinders need to be rebuilt. your seals are shot the seals last about 15 years and you got 34 out of them. consider yourself very lucky I got my cylinder seals from star marine. $75 to rebuild the cylinders. no need to remove them from the boat or remove the drive. just prop...
  2. Scott Danforth

    New valve cover gaskets and still leaking V6 4.3

    oil around the breather is normal. when I do a long run at just below WOT (about 20 miles at 4500 RPM) I will get some oil residue out of the valve cover breathers. that is what soap and water are for.
  3. Scott Danforth

    Bunks with plastic on top

    ask for a 2x6 stud
  4. Scott Danforth

    Campion factory auction

    we did the upholstery for the Explorer 22 and the Muskoka 28 at my last job. not the most attractive boat designs. lots of angularity
  5. Scott Danforth

    Question

    you can put power-tune on a buick and push it into a cat door.
  6. Scott Danforth

    5.7 mercruiser conversion in Bayliner 192

    going from the 2:1 ratio of the 3 liter to the required 1.47:1 ratio for the 5.7 will require a different drive ratio. If you need guidance on the fiberglass. go to the stickies in the restoration forum.
  7. Scott Danforth

    5.7 mercruiser conversion in Bayliner 192

    first, the drive should be off. it is 20 times harder to install a motor with the drive and you have to remove the drive to align the motor anyway. so save yourself a headache and pull the drive second, not sure a bayliner is worth hitek exhaust manifolds. third, you have to fabricate and...
  8. Scott Danforth

    Bunks with plastic on top

    if you have an aluminum boat do not use treated lumber. they do not make 316 staples. they would be too soft to go into wood. lowes and home depot sell 2x6 framing wood in every store. available 6 foot, 6 foot, 10 foot, etc. and if you are from the midwest, there is also Menards and Fleet...
  9. Scott Danforth

    Looking for a electric mechanical fuel pump for 5.7 carburetor mag.

    you are way way way way way way overthinking it. the exact same carter electric pump is used as a priming pump on every dodge truck with a diesel and that pump is pulling thru 15-20 feet of hose and its pulling vertical 2 feet. mount the pump at the back of the by the motor along with the fuel...
  10. Scott Danforth

    4.5 hp evinrude smoky and oil residue in test tank

    because you are in a test tank and can not load the motor there is always unburnt oil and fuel at low RPM's on a 2-stroke
  11. Scott Danforth

    Campion factory auction

    not if you design ugly boats like this last round.
  12. Scott Danforth

    New valve cover gaskets and still leaking V6 4.3

    dont just feel. look. if you cant get your eyes back there, use your phone on a selfie stick if the oil leak is still coming from the valve covers pull the valve cover off (the blue rubber gaskets can be reused hundreds of times) look at the flange. is the flange perfectly flat and...
  13. Scott Danforth

    Lowrance LST 3800 compatibility

    45 minute job
  14. Scott Danforth

    Gas cap replacement

    Unless you know what brand of fuel fill you have, you will need to replace the fuel fill and cap. They are not universal I would have thrown the dock boy in the water
  15. Scott Danforth

    OK to run outboard 1 cylinder not working ?

    I wouldn't
  16. Scott Danforth

    Looking for a electric mechanical fuel pump for 5.7 carburetor mag.

    Why? Put the fuel pump on a bracket mounted to the stringer or the motor Fuel filter before the pump You are overthinking it.
  17. Scott Danforth

    Looking for a electric mechanical fuel pump for 5.7 carburetor mag.

    Doesn't exist
  18. Scott Danforth

    Looking for a electric mechanical fuel pump for 5.7 carburetor mag.

    See post #3
  19. Scott Danforth

    New to me Colbalt, Overheating only while pulling tube or ski

    You climb in the bilge and access it if you have room If you do not have room, pull the motor?
  20. Scott Danforth

    1979 Glastron Carlson CV-23 restoration

    Looking good
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