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all my previous boats were on tilt trailers but the 16' open tinnie I have now is on a non tilt bunk w/keel roller trailer. And I do miss the tilt, even tho my boat is liter than my other ones. The heavier the boat, the more usefull the tilt trailer was. ( well the heaviest boat I had was...

All my trailers have had fixed bunks of various lengths, from 2 to 4 feet. for an aluminum hull I think longer support the hull better, if the keel rollers are carrying most of the weight. What ticks me off is there are way fewer tilting bunk roller trailers made than 20 years ago. I have a non...

thanks for the reply here's the prop chart from the manual that got me thinking about a prop change. Propeller Information Chart -15 HP Wide Open Throttle RPM: 5000-6000 Typical Gross Boat WGT. (LBS) Typical Boat Length Speed Range (MPH) prop weight length...

This stuff is great if you can find it. They use it on equipment at the local road salt unloading site, where it comes into the state on ships. Smells like lanolin, kinda thickish, and doesn't seem to wash away. https://www.fluid-film.com/index.html

My 15 hp merc has a 9x9 prop now, on a 15.5' open v tinnie, total weight is never more than 900-1000 lbs with the largest load. new to me set up, last summer I'm thinking I need a prop with more pitch (there is a 9x10 1/2 listed for this motor) because at around 7/8 to full throttle (maybe...

I bought this boat last spring I want to repaint the interior of this mid 70's princecraft. As you can see it's faded out and not flakey in any way. I put new seats on last summer, and raised the transom for a long shaft motor. I don't want a piece of art, just a good functional paint job...

Yes that will work. I had the same problem in my tinnie, I used a portable jumper pack from walmart, it has a cigerette lighter outlet on it, so I put the appropriate male plug on the wire from the fishfinder and just plug it in. I took it apart and found it has a sealed lead acid battery...

here's what I did, went to the lumber yard and bought a hollow plastic fence "cover". I don't know what it's called exactly, but it is 3 1/2" square inside, designed to go over a 4x4 fence post, white , and was available in vinyl, and a harder composite plastic material (which i bought) So by...

Well my 16' tinnie is kept real simple. No trolling motor, pull start motor, and just a fishfinder I run off a B&D portable jump starter/power pack. I use it for mostly coastal striper fishing, and am making a small live well for mackerel and small pollok. My old boat was electric start so I...

Need some input on a new fishfinder! Last one i bought was in the early 90's, a Humminbird , don't remember the model. I fish for stripers mostly, bays and estuaries of coastal NH (LOL ya i know NH doesn't have much coastline) I was liking the looks of the Lowrance X-4 Pro Fishfinder, for...

So the problem is solved!!! I went out today with new OEM Merc connectors on both tanks, and new bulbs (OEM OMC, they didn't carry the Merc brand) At no time did it falter upon acceleration, and the see thru Merc under hood fuel filter was always full. Stopping for 15 min or more made no...

Well one tank is a 3gal plastic with no quick connect on the tank end and a sierra bulb, new gray hose, the other is a older but clean OMC plastic tank with an OMC fitting at the tank end, new grey hose, and atwood bulb. the plan is to get Merc bulbs for both and OEM fittings for each, Funny...

Will do I'll be picking up new OEM connectors tomorrow also pulled the carb , found the bowl spotless and to satisfy my curiosity I took apart the fuel pump to check for any sign of a pinhole or something amiss---- no problem there either.

Ok took the grand kids fishing this AM, and had similar and worse problems! Ran fine for an hour or 2, then lost power running almost WOT for 3o min. starved for fuel, had to pump bulb again to force fuel into motor. I could see the verticle fuel filter under the hood (clear plastic was almost...

hey Pappy Ya, I'm In NH, we might be still running on winter blends. Fuel is fresh this week, added stabil and startron, as i used to do on my OMC's I ran it after stopped for 15 min on idle for 1 min (before goosing it)and would run at idle trolling speed fine. One pull on the manual prime...

thanks for the reply! I have 2 plastic tanks, 3 and 6 gal, one new and one older, both have new hoses,bulbs and connector ends, and the motor acts the same way on either tank. Merc has an inline verticle small cannister style filter, and it had nothing in it after todays problems. Ya it is 1o...

I have a 2001 Merc 2 stroke. Always starts 1st or 2nd pull after normal cold start prime routine. runs just fine, and runs full throttle like it should. i can stop and start it, fine, but if I wait 10 to 15 min, it will bog down on acceleration, but will run at idle the way it's supposed to...

That's just what did to an early 80's princecraft. I put on a long shaft 15 merc, and it moves it along nicely. maidened it yesterday. attached is pfd with four pictures of work in progress, i now have overlapping L shaped aluminum pieces inside and outside the new transom, like you suggested...

Some progress got the seats and transom fitted, going to coat them w/epoxy resin and then install. I ripped the steering station out and will replace th ply front and rear sides. Will leave it off till I get some Merc controls and maybe an electric start kit, it it is hard to start (my old arms...

I'm embarrassed to ask this-lol I just picked up a 15 hp ML merc with tiller shift, and have no owners manual. For the life of me I can't figure out how to use the full tilt and shallow water tilt settings. I have to use my finger to trip the spring loaded thing in the motor mounts. and that...