Marinette Boat Forum

If you've ever run a, say, 20 foot IO boat, then you'll appreciate that keel! My 32 footer tracked dead straight, hands off the wheel, as we negotiated miles of no wake zones. By comparison, a 20 footers with IO drive waddle all over the place, even with constant steering corrections.

Jeff

Wow, what a project! Where did you live? If close enough, perhaps some of our members could give you a hand.

Jeff

No way that dash panel will fall apart like the original foam ones could. Nice work!

Jeff

Definitely a good idea. Hard to believe that boats like ours can actually 'survive' while running on what, in essence, is a 120 volt extension cord!

Jeff

And don't forget to put the plug in when the weather breaks!

Jeff

PS: Guess who forget a few years ago?

Oh God! Nearly upchucked at looking at all that work!

Good luck.

Jeff (I hate electrical crap)

Had that same problem with the Chrysler 360 in my old R/V. (Common problem with RVs.) I eventually solved it by braze welding a built up area where the head had been scoured out. I kept adding/ sanding the bronze weld--and the depression in the head--until the manifold and head met properly to fill ...

Boats don't use a vacuum advance.

Jeff

Looks like you did everything correctly. Congratulate yourself!

Jeff

Getting all the movable weight aft helps--especially the mother-in-law and etc.

Jeff