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    what stainless steel 1/4 -20 screws do you use on the transom?

    are you guys using hex heads alone? with washers?, or pan heads??? or is there a specialty head screw that gives more support??? I thought I saw a post where the pan head had a recess under it for an o-ring!!!!!!! looking for a source as well/ thanks bob
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    need a check valve fitting for my fuel tank

    I picked up a second fuel tank. it is poly and has an aluminum hose barb fitting with a 1/4 NPT thread on one side. But INSIDE is a check valve... I think id like two get another one for my other fuel tank. I want to install BOTH fuel tanks. I have looked around and cant seem to find that...
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    new torsion axle, which angle setting to buy?

    I am looking to install a torsion axle on my trailer in place of the standard leaf spring set up. For many of the axles they offer different initial angle setting of the torsion spindle in relation to the horizon. they offer 0 degrees, 15 degrees 22 degrees 25 degrees and even 45 degrees. the...
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    would this be ok for a paint prep???

    I have about 5 gallons of this stuff!!, I am getting close to painting my boat. I figured its all sanded and ready for paint..give the boat a wash with this stuff and dry and prime?? I do have a few spots that I have filled unevenness and holes with JB weld....this wont bother that will it...
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    aluminum tie strips under the floor

    I didn't take my boat apart, but I did get MOST of the parts. Plus I have taken my islander apart and StarCraft used thin aluminum strips about 2" wide to tie the tops of the stringers to each other.. I am installing 3/4 flooring and am wondering how much affect those strips of aluminum are...
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    lets talk gas tank fill hose and vents!!

    so I am assembling my boat now and I have an aluminum permanent tank installed between the stringers. I need to run the fill hose and I have a gas fill cap. The cap has a separate "vent"-"overflow" nipple. Is this nipple for the vent from the gas tank??? or is it in addition to the vent hose...
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    converting a dual axle into a single axle

    Well I think I have a need to retrofit one of my dual axle trailers into a single axle. I have a 22 ft starcraft holiday...it is being rebuilt, and I never owned it when it was complete, so I don't know its final weight...but am guessing that it might fall around 1300 lbs...add a 400 lb motor...
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    erratic tach and water passage blockage

    so I just fired the boat up after not running since feb...started right up!, I was going to de carb the motor and I let her warm up at 1100 rpms...if I tried to push it to 1200 the tach died. but the motor ran fine...I sparayed the decarb and while I am letting it smoke out I noticed the tach...
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    mixing bias ply and radials on a trailer

    So I want to buy some higher load range tires for my trailer. I just want to buy the tires alone, no rims... I have looked around, and it just seems hard to find bias ply tires in load range D in 205-75-15. I want that size because it is the size I have on four or my trailers!!!! so I can carry...
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    pitted gas tanks

    I went through a lot of the restore threads lately..looking for ideas and tips. One thing Id like to know is if covering the outside of a pitted aluminum fuel tank with JB weld or marine -tex...works? I have a 53 gallon tank that id would like to use, but it has at least one pin hole( I can see...
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    looking for a source for the thin "c" channel aluminum transom cap

    I had found a supplier when I was doing my Lowe boat years ago...but I cant find them now... I am guessing 2" wide with about 5/16th legs...in about 1/16th "thickness. would give me and inside measure of about 1-7/8th"....just about perfect. the stuff I found before looked like this on my...
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    more ???? gas tank install this time

    so I cant help but think I don't want metal to metal contact with my gas tank and the ribs.. seems like if it isn't super solid, it will rub and might produce a hole. what is it that you guys are using to cushion the tank from the ribs...if any and do most of you leave an access opening for...
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    hows this transom wood fit..look?

    I got two pieces of 3/4" plywood already cut to"fit" my boat when I picked up the 22 ' Holiday. do you think this fit is acceptable? I am thinking, it MIGHT be ok....because its the bottom corner.... BOB
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    what style rivets??

    I need to order some more solid rivets for the hull... but Id like to order the rivets I am thinking of using for the rest of the boat..like the floor to the stringers, and the transom well to the supports... what did you guys use to attach the floor down?..i am thinking of just going with...
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    Putting a V6 power head on a V4 midsection....possibe?

    OK so we all know that the sites that list parts for J-E motors says parts interchange, when they DONT!..they just say that because the part will actually bolt on...but its not made for that application!. case in point they say a long drive shaft will fit and extra long shaft motor....sure...it...
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    marine tex or JB weld????

    so what do you guys like.... I am going to try and plug up a bunch of holes in this boat of mine...on the gunwals and on the transom... I have a mig welder with a spool gun, but this epoxy just seems soo much easier.. and zero chance of warping . my boat isn't going to be a show piece, but Ill...
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    what do you think of a tubular frame aluminum transon insert?

    I am trying to figure a way to build my Holiday with out wood...if possible. I have a miller Mig welder and can weld up aluminum pretty easily. I am thinking of framing up an insert made of 1.5" sq aluminum tube that would look like this: the two legs in the middle either side of the center...
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    source for starcraft bow wood

    Looking to replace the bow wood framing on my Holiday. Id prefer to find a non wood alternative. if not does anyone make these parts?? this boat is a 22 ft V5 Holiday hope to hear from some of you guys bob
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    to paint below the waterline , or not to paint!!

    This starcraft of mine will be used for salt water fishing and duck hunting...it might see 10 trips a year 20 on a good year with lots of fishing... I have removed all the paint on the outside of the hull... I am going to replace rivets now, but wonder if I should not even bother painting the...
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    bucking rivets

    so since I am fast approaching the riveting phase..(literal, not figureative!!) of my project... I looked up some rivets, and some tips. last time I did some rivets I just supported the outside from under the boat with a fixed shaft on the head and the boats weight on the rivet...and I punched...
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