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If those are flat surfaces alumiweld is your best bet, the rods sold at Harbor Freight are basically the same thing. What I do is put a little piece of steel on the other side of the hole then heat up the surface with a gas torch (I use maap gas) then melt the rod on the hot surface to fill the...

I bought it with a 1982 Johnson 25, I just finished rebuilding the carb and adjusting the throttle linkage and it runs pretty good. This was the first time I cranked it up, before any adjustments at all…

Got all of the welds ground down, now I have to smooth them all out.

My buddy was TIG welding the holes in my transom and I noticed these little fires blowing through the wood on the other side. All of the holes, 25 of them, were sealed up nicely.

I’m going to weld all of the holes in the transom that will not be used. The previous owner had a piece of varnished plywood on the outside of the transom and put a bunch of holes in to hold it up. The wood on the inside is about 1 3/8 inch or so ply and I’m going to leave it in, resisting the...

Yeah, I’m going to just treat the wood in some way and move on to the other things on the list of things to do. I’ve used Raka products before so I’ll check them out.

I bought this 1973 Lowe Jumbo 16 recently and I’m addressing the transom now. The wood piece appears to be the original one, it’s pretty dry but doesn’t seem to be rotten judging from the screws I’m pulling out without any dark or damp wood on them. I’m not really wanting to replace the wood but...