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Based on your picture only, it appears to be just surface rust, very common. Depends on the water where the motor is used. Some have...
Mar 24, 2024
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2024 Anything new for laminating a transom?
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With a small engine, you just have to choose. I used one prop when alone and a lower one when others were with me. Just part of the game
Mar 24, 2024
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Restoration 1959 Aluma Craft FD
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Last year, I sold a 0-hour Johnson that had been found in a wet box in a storage room behind a closed boat dealership by guys cleaning...
Mar 23, 2024
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Anyone ever do a DIY tunnel in a tin boat?
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The same thickness or maybe a gauge or two thicker, but that's just me. The tunnels I have seen have always been sturdily built, since...
Mar 23, 2024
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Outfitting new boat with electronics for river fishing
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HEY... the difference in battery prices could pay to upgrade to a Garmin trolling motor. I would definitely consider that. Those...
Mar 23, 2024
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Help identifying a boat
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You are looking for the model not the make. Try searching images online. Search for Texas Boat MFG and also for Texas Maid and scan...
Mar 23, 2024
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1962 Evinrude 18hp- Compression Tests
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And E-free is not a bad idea, especially for small engines that don't run a lot of fuel through them. So, at $1 more a gallon, if it...
Mar 23, 2024
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1962 Evinrude 18hp- Compression Tests
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Most Evinrudes like 50:1. For a while, some of them had 100:1 labels, but don't fall for it! Run 50:1. I am not happy at all with...
Mar 23, 2024
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Western W-17 Rebuild advice needed and build thread
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I was just trying to look at the transom again from the pics with the motor on and from the inside... Is that a dent across the bottom...
Mar 23, 2024
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Western W-17 Rebuild advice needed and build thread
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I think you have very good thinking about your plans for the boat. Did you have hook @ the back of the hull, or did you have rocker...
Mar 23, 2024
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Western W-17 Rebuild advice needed and build thread
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That is a very solid looking structure. Was the boat already gutted when you got it? Regarding your question, yes, your rear deck can...
Mar 23, 2024
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Outfitting new boat with electronics for river fishing
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Speaking of TimeUSB batteries- after a great deal of research, I got three of them, ($192- Timeusb-12V100Ah) and they have been...
Mar 22, 2024
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Great input folks and exactly what I am hoping to understand from your combined experiences. Here is what I am settling into...
Mar 22, 2024
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sounds good, thank you @thill and @airshot. Yeah the manual says run 25:1 for first 10 hours and then 50:1 thereafter. Which is a...
Mar 22, 2024
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Little Jon Build
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So I got out to the shop about 5:30 this evening and the phone immediately started pinging. Ended up back in the office for another hour...
Mar 22, 2024
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