Recent content by southernboy2147

Sorry y'all I have been a little busy lately. I had time to spend the day on it yesterday. I cleaned the carb, blew out the fuel lines, bought some new spark plugs and fired it on up. Ran it for about 10 seconds and of course it ran rough. I had to order a new ignition switch because even after...

I have no doubt that is the best way to find leaks! I just wanna do something do cover all the rivets as a precautionary. Anybody have any advice? I've been considering spraying the inside of the boat with bedliner type spray, or maybe covering all the rivets with jb weld, 5200, or gluvit... Any...

Well since it's a rivited boat I want to address all the rivets so I won't have future issues

First time builder here y'all. Recently bought this 1978 fisher marine 1538 with a 1978 25 hp johnson for $500. Felt like it was a steal. Boat came with a awful lookin bass boat trailer. And nearly new 40pd thrust minn Kota powerdrive tm, and a depth fonder that is suppose to work. I've had the...

Just bought the same boat with a different layout to it. Mines is a fisher marine water rover I. As said before small bites. Also said before I would start by ripping EVERYTHING out down to a bare hull. Then you will be able to tell better what you have

keep it coming bro. i have a 1432 ive been wondering what i could do with. since its so narrow i dont wanna put a small deck on it like that and make it even more tippy

how stable is the boat? can you freely walk around in it