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I currently have 4 6-gallon tanks on my pontoon boat, and I'd like to install a larger tank with a fuel sender. I'm looking at something like this - https://www.ebay.com/itm/19-Gallon-Top-Feed-Aluminum-Fuel-Cell-Gas-Tank-Level-Sender-Cap-Black-Coated/362518788376 Couple questions - This will...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Parker-Racor-660R-RAC-01-660R10-Fuel-Water-Separator-10-Micron-w-Heater-Option/233183938607 So a $120 Racor for $30. Just looks a little different because its mil-surp.

I asked over on thehulltruth as well, but I figured I should ask here too since there are some very talented mechanics here. 1999 Mercury 50 ELPT 4 stroke. I started with replacing all of the hose clamps with the zip tie style clamps I purchased from a local marina. Started it up, still...

Not sure if you guys have heard of him. Vic Coomer lures are a staple here in Ohio. He makes all sorts of plastic lures and other stuff. I was car shopping with my dad and an older sales guy walked past and his name tag said "Vic Coomer". I was like....wait, was that the fishing guy? Sales guy...

I bought a 1996 Pontoon with a 1996 Force 40hp engine. When I first took it out, it ran like crap. I took it home and took the carb off of it it cleaned it thoroughly and replaced the spark plugs. I also installed a tell-tale and put in a new water impeller. I took it out again. It ran much...

Wife and I decided to sell our camper. We had a 24' Travel Trailer. We just realized we weren't using it nearly enough, only once this year. We burnt ourselves out on doing local trips with it, the campgrounds are full of nothing but people partying non-stop. For longer trips, we realized after...

Headed to St. Augustine the end of July with the family. We were going to go to Canada, but my wife has OCD and has been freaking out about the border crossing for some reason. (Even though we've crossed before without issue). I think she was worried about taking the boat over the border. So...

I have a 1971 Johnson 50E that I purchased a few months ago from craigslist. Previous owner said it came off of a 1978 Starcraft 16' Fisherman. I have it on a 1978 Starcraft Super Sport. Same hull. He swore it would push that boat 36mph and that he'd clocked it using an app on his phone. My...

I'm going on year 4 on my current fuel filter, but I've maybe only ran 50 gallons of fuel through it. How often do you change yours out? Do you have it inside our outside the motor cover? I'm thinking about moving mine inside, just for appearance purposes.

I bought a tiny tach for my motor so I can watch the RPMs while I try to find a prop thats right for it. The wire on it to wrap about the spark plug wire isn't very long. Where did you mount yours? The one I got is water resistant, I was thinking about double sided taping it to the motor...

I have a 1971 Johnson 50E electric shift motor. Runs great, but the prop that came on it seems to be too much pitch for my boat. It takes forever to get up on plane. I'm talking like 1/4 mile or more. Once it is on plane, you can here the RPMs go up and it acts fine. But it bogs like hell...

When I first got my boat I did a leak test and found a few missing rivets. Fixed and sealed them. Took it out yesterday on a local lake and over 2 hours on the water the bilge pumped out maybe 5 gallons of water. So I did a leak test again. Found a bunch more leaking rivets and several missing...

I booked a cabin on a lake in Ontario, Canada in August for the family. It'll be about 1400 miles round trip. We wanted to take our travel trailer, but it ended up being far cheaper to rent a cabin. I found a 2 bedroom cabin on Echo Lake, which is connected via about 1.5 miles of river and a...

Really appreciate the 2 bumper stickers you sent me after I liked your facebook page. They'll look awesome on my new boat. Gonna put one on the boat and one on the truck.

I purchased this 1978 Starcraft Super Sport for $600 last month. The previous owner had recarpeted the interior, but besides that, it was in pretty rough shape. Luckily, I had some help My headlight for getting back to do the dock after night fishing Bought a switch panel...

Picked it up for $500. Came with controls. Its a 1971 50E. The previous owner wanted a motor with electronic trim control. I had to buy some adapters in order to use my teleflex steering cable. Steering mount with tube - https://www.ebay.com/itm/173226838697 Then a steering link...

I put my 25hp OMC on my new 16' boat but it just didn't have enough balls. She topped out at 9mph. I'm going to look at mid 70's 50hp OMC tomorrow. The pictures look immaculate, like I could eat off the engine block. Its an older guy and he says he upgraded because he wanted electronic trim...

Getting close to considering taking my old boat to the scrap yard. Its been sitting on facebook and craigslist for sale for 2 weeks. I have it listed at $500. This includes boat, trailer, fish finder, everything except the motor. I had it listed at $800 and then $700 for a while with no...

I'm wondering if anyone has done this, seen it done, or what. I have a neighbor who is a welder. I'd like him to build me a steel or aluminum 4" tube that runs from side to side across the back of my boat, maybe a foot forward of the transom and maybe 4' high. Artists rendering - This would...

I saw it posted on a local facebook swap group. The guy posted a single picture of just the inside, so I couldn't even tell if it was a metal boat or not. Shot him a message anyways for more info. That my wife. $600, but he's taking the motor and fish finder off of it. I'm going...