G'day all,
I'm looking to upgrade to a SS prop but have no idea what to go for. Any experts on here or advice on where to go and who to talk to in the Perth metro area? Motor is a 175hp Merc 2 stroke currently has a 15" ali 3 blade, not sure of the pitch, I'm guessing it was the prop bolted on in the factory many years ago. Any info or advice would be appreciated.

Anywhere sell spindle sleeves for the inner grease seal for trailer axles. 1 of mine needs replacing and can only find ameriacn suppliers 

 Hi guys

Anyone have a recommendation for a great 2 stroke Evinrude mechanic?

I'm near Scarbs.

cheers!

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 Time to replace the trailer springs but every company seems to have a different opinion on what style,weight, gal or no gal can anybody give me a bit of insight on what to get. 

Boat loaded with fuel is 1600kg fibre glass centre console.

Trailer is aluminium with 2300 aggregated trailer mass.

Trailer and boat does alot of KMS. 

Springs at the moment are 4 leaf 45mm eye to eye  tandem axle

No problems with cutting them off and starting again.

 Hey all quick question if i put my riding light next to my gps antenna will it interfere with the gps in any way cheers craig

 Hello fellow fishers and boaties

I bought a project boat abt 6 mtjs ago and have it ready to get wet, my problem is one side of the mtr riser only gets alot hotter than the other side, i have done flow tests on what water the impellor puts through the mtr at idle revs in 20 sec abt 7 litres when i take the revs up to 1500 or higher the temp drops. Now am i worried about nothing or should i dig abit deeper. I have checked the circulation pump , thermostat and all hoses and cant see any problems anywhere. Any advice and help appreciated 

Thanks Russ

Can anyone reccomend a mobile boat mechanic SOR who specialises in RIBs?
my old boy needs a tube valve replaced and a few other bits and pieces fixed to freshen up his RIB, located on the boat racks in freo

Have been getting the run around from RIB Rescue so looking for some other options

Cheers

 Hi,

Im very new to boating, and I have flares & radio on my boat.

I'm wondering, if I'm on the water, say in cockburn sound, its 4pm or so, and when I go to start my boat I can't get it to kick over - no matter what I try.

Its not an emergency, so not a pan pan call, but you dont want to be stuck out, especially after dark, cause then it gets a bit more serious. 

Scenario 1 -  So whats the correct way of calling another boat to tow you in on their way back, is it acceptable to use channel 88, do you get a fine ?

Scenario 2 -Also, if its a flat battery, and radio doesnt work, then what, are flares acceptable, or would you get fined as its not an emergency ?

So whats the acceptable guidelines or etiquette ?

Thanks All !!

 Been watching a lot of you guys on here and on bookface where you're catching pinkies before and after dark. Now being dinghy bound, I needed to see what I could do to make it so I could have a crack at them. A quick flick through the Whitworths web site showed me all I need, LED Nav lights, an anchor light and some lighting for inside the dinghy. A shade over $100 sealed the deal and home I went with a heap of new ideas how to go about it. The lighting for in the boat, I went for strip lighting, about $25 for a meter, these I have put under the gunwhale on each side. They have an adhesive backing and could have stuck them on, but being 8mm wide, they fit perfectly inside 10mm clear plastic hose, $12 from Bunnings. So I stuck mounting blocks inside the gunwhale and cable tied the plastic hose to this. Nice and secure and out of the way. I probably could have just gotten away with one of these light strips as they are incredibly bright, but being LED, small drain on the battery.

 Hi all, I'vemanaged to let my fairly new boat battery run dry (which i know is a really stupid thing to do) and now the engine won't start.

I wanted to ask is there any saving a battery in this situation or do you just scrap it and buy a new one?

Thanks

Hi , i'm looking to invest in a vhf radio , and would prefer a hand held as it would give more usable options. What would the range be on a handheld compared to a in built unit ?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Cheers Paul 

 Hi all,

Can anyone help a novice? I have installed an after market fuel guage on my boat. The tank is fiberglass and I have earthed it to my negative earth that all my other guages, ( Fish finder, GPS, radie..etc.) are connected to. Is this the correct method or should I be running a separate earth to the motor?

Looked on the internet but can't find anything except steel tanks.

Would appreciate any feedback amature or tinkerer or prof.

Cheers Coben13

Have been redoing a bit of teak on my boat and having real trouble with pitting in the epoxy.
I am using high gloss 2 part (2-1) epoxy - I lay up the first coat quite thick and then sand it back and apply a thinner second coat. Most of it has turned out great but some just pit repeatedly, tried re brushing as it gets thicker/cures but they just keep coming back!
The only thing I can think of (has just come to mind) is it could be silicon/other off the sand paper...?

 Gents

i have a Yamaha 100 four stroke done 330 hours and its just recently  started giving me grief it will fire up when cold if a give it a bit of revs but stalls as soon as I put it into ggear if I warm it at 1000 to 1200 rpm for a few minutes it will be fine for the rest of the dday any thoughts on what's causing  this

its not due a service till 400 hours

cheers

 Hi guys 

Took the boat down to breamer bay for a couple of days fishing and bent all the trailer light brackets on the back of the trailer while i was off road. Has anyone come up with any ideas how to solve this problem?? Photos would be good 2 thanks guys 

The Road Safety Committees/Working Groups from Cities of Stirling and Swan with the help of Towsafe are offering a service on 8 April 2017 where people can:

• Have their vehicle checked over by a qualified mechanic for any safety concerns in the leadup to the coming long weekends. 
• Have their trailer checked by the guys from Towsafe in Osborne Park for any safety concerns in the leadup to the coming long weekends.
• Have their child's restraint fitting checked or fitted by a qualifiedType 1 fitter

The service is free and it works on a first come first serve basis so there may be a wait if there's a queue and there will be a few spot prizes including 3x $50 vouchers for Towsafe.

Have any of you guys replaced a 3 blade prop with a 4 blade to lessen a boats tendency to lose speed on the back of big swells ?
THT seems to rave about the positives of better grip in the water, better hole shot and maintaining boat speed with the loss of a couple of knots on the top end being the only negative, maybe they don't operate in the same conditions as we experience in the southwest of WA as a few guys I have spoken to disagree and recommend going from an ally to SS.
First hand experienced opinions ?

 Hey guys, 

So my steering is getting stiffer and stiffer . 

Ive pulled out the tube at the out board and cleaned and re greased.

Still its no better so its either time for a new cable and possibly helm.

As it clicks a bit aswell.

Boats a 5 meter side console with only a 60.

Is it worth the extra to go hydralic while its apart or stick to a no feed back cable set up?

Hi Guys

The packing between my beam and the floor has fallen out.I was going to use sikaflex to repack it, is this a good idea?.if anybody has other ideas on how to fix this it will be much appreciated.I think this quiet common for a 14year old hull.
Also does anybody know where I can purchase floatation foam for my hull?
cheers

Chasing a mobile mech to have a look at my Volvo outdrive unit - any recommendations welcomed!

cheers

 Ok i have pulled all my hair out trying to figure this out, I recently bought a KUS tacho to add to my 1977 70 hp evinrude motor so i could check the running condition.

I attcahed the red wire to the +v, the blue wire to the -V and the black sensor wire to the grey wire form the foreward controls.

what i got was nothing... I had power as the digital hour reading showed up 0, i also checked the yellow and orange wire which gave colored lights to the bezel no problems there.

I then figured it was a faulty Tacho so i went to Whitworths and bought an off the shelf one, Looks like the same tacho same back electronic plug system, i then proceeded to try again to no avail.

The next step was to destroy the foreward controls (long story) so i bought a new motor (1990 yamaha 70 hp) to have a bit better piece of mind on the water (also long story after rebuilding the evinrude).

Now i tried to wire up the original tach (second one returned as i figured it wasn't the tachos fault).

Red again to +v, blue to -V and this time the black sensor wire to the green wire from the yamaha newly installed foreward controls.

Still no signal on the tacho.. got color got hours but the needle hasnt moved at all using either motors or controllers.

I removed the rectifier on the evinrude whilest trieling the tacho and did the recommended checks which showed the rectifier as working, i have checked the charging system on them both which also checks out. approx 13.something when running.

Anyone Have any ideas at all or a similar experience thats been fixed ? other than springing nearly $200 for an original Yammy tacho.

Cheers

Ridgebak

 Hmm Universal Remote Controls now this changes everything !!!

Hey guys,

I am waning to mount my electric this weekend, I have purchased a minn Kota metal quick release bracket (Mka-32) and I will be mounting it onto a raw  aluminium surface and was wondering if I should place any spacers between the surfaces to prevent any interactions of  the metals?

 Hi guys,

Just noticed ive pulled this wire (pic attached) from its fastening at one end on my suzi 90hp 4stroke outboard.

Does anyone know what its for?

Its easy to see where its pulled out but i was out with it yesterday and it didnt seem to effect performance at all or the tilt n trim.

Im guessing its an earth wire??

Cheers in advance.

  Just thought i'd post this here. In a thread on another forum re non-skid deck surfaces on glass boats, someone suggested using a dry roller to lift the flowcoat as it went tacky, as an alternative to the old standbys of sand, sugar etc . I recently did a glassed timber top for my cleaning table at home, and of course fresh flowcoat is very slippery and hard to skin on. So I gave the roller idea a go, and it came up well. Certainly non-skid, no problems skinning Spaniards, and easy to clean. Worth consideration if you want to redo an old flowcoat surface as non-skid.

Hi all

I have a Stacer 440 tinny, which is a tiller control with a fold-down Springfield seat for the driver that is mounted to the rear bench seat of the tinny via a Kingpin seat mount and deck base. The deck base is (or should I say "was") fixed to the bench seat by 6 bolts and nuts of a type that I have never seen before (a cylindrical thing that has a diameter mot much greater than the bolt that goes thorugh it). I was out crabbing the other day and when I leaned back in my seat to unsnag a pot rope from the leg of the motor, the fold-down seat came free of the bench seat (taking the deck base with it), pulling the "nuts" through the holes in the bench seat.

I now have a bench seat with 1 x 2.5" hole (for the stem on the deck base to go through) and 6 x holes that are around 10mm in diameter.

I was wondering whether anyone had any suggestions about how to re-fix the deck base back to the bench seat, as there is no access from underneath to use traditional bots & nuts, etc? I'm concerned that if I try, say, 12 gage self-tappers, given that the bench seat is only ali they may just pull straight back through with very little effort.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers

Hi.  I have just fitted hydraulic steering on my boat on the weekend and discovered i hadnt tighten one of the hoses enough.  Which had leaked a little.  Now after topping the pump up i am finding that at full lock in one direction oil is being forced out of the bleeder cap on the pump and at full lock in the other direction, the oil level in the pump drops too much.  Reading the instructions it would appear i have too much oil one side of the pump and not enough in the other. (I gather there are different volumes in each side of the chamber).

My intended solution is to go through the entire bleeding process again.

Am i right in assuming this will rectify the issue of oil being forced out.

I have to sort this before friday afternoon as i am supporting a swimmer in the channel swim on saturday.

I am guessing this topic has been raised 1000 times, But I don't care I am bringing it up again.
I am building a starter motor winch using a Gear Reduction Toyota Camry starter motor, trouble is I don't know the rpm.
What size pulleys are you blokes using if you have something similar? Would like a fairly quick retrieve rate.

Cheers

im chasing some specs on the penguin striker.

Im looking at buying one and am aware that its going to be overwidth on a trailer but im just wondering by how much.

All details on the striker would be greatly appreciated.