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"balancing" the tanks with a line between them is not a very viable option. ALL openings in the tank must be at the top of the tank only: 183.518 Fuel tank openings. Each opening into the fuel tank must be at or above the topmost surface of the tank . While HDPE may be fine, I have not seen any USCG...

Without knowing the oil base stock, and the package in the oil you are using, a random volume of some random miracle in a can isn't going to do much beyond adding another gooey-dripping can to the shop garbage bin. The dino oil I use in almost everything is the fleet-farm generic barrel of citgo 15-...

High Zddp levels are just as bad as too low. Once it hits .2% it attacks the grain of the cast iron. According to an SAE paper (SAE document #2004-01-2986), .08% was found to be the optimum for wear prevention back in the muscle hayday. As oil temps went up they increased the content to prevent oil ...

i am a mechananic, automotive and marine, and the 215 and its various family of engines have a singular exhaust port spacing and bolt pattern so the manifolds have to be made to fit that head. it is a sad marine engine fact. i was wondering about tubular headers with water jets at each port as i ha...

The problem seems to be I just never do learn from experience. The next time one comes along, I will tell myself "THIS one will be better" then repeat all the problems over, and over.

Depends on the engine If it's a GM (esp chev/olds) it needs to be broke in at a min of 3Kfrom the instant it starts, to a total of 30 minutes, best with a 50% overfill in the case (even more critical if it has a crank scraper and/or windage tray) and a bunch of EOS. The cam is only lubed by windage,...

diesel/kerosene readily ignites with small sparks. There is little difference between being blown out of your boat, or just slow-roasted as you try to become an ad-hock fireman in a floating trough full of secondary fuels. Look at oil-burning furnaces/boilers, "flamethrower" type manifold heaters, g...

Assuming you mean the "470" engine -- Well, I guess every boat needs an anchor. Most have ropes on them, yours would have a fuel line. I hate that engine with a passion... in case it wasn't obvious. Mercury decided they would design an engine -- Well, there is the first problem. Since it's an all-me...

The older Stanley/Bailey are a better tool than the new production, but they either of them are far above the asian copies that have been imported in recent years.

Not that bad It does not look like a typical lean run. Don't worry about predetonation, you couldn't make those old low-compression engines knock on nitroglycerine. Scuffing like that is typical foreign object/material. I have seen excessively carbonized engines scuff very much like that. The scuffi...

Their house-brand planes are questionable on their best days, pretty much china-junk, with even junkier irons, poor fit, worse finish. Hit up some pawn shops, and find some old stanley/bailey planes, new irons from lee-valley, and you have a good tool made to actually work. Any of those 80+ year old...

venting the housing can be a problem if the generator isn't built for a cabinet type housing. Biggest problem, unless the specific alternator, and engine are not ignition protected, you have the ideal recipe for a floating-ride-in-grenade. Crappy magneto ignition, high tension leads of questionable ...

The worst part of that boat would be the sound of rustling paper as you drive it, because there is absolutely no way you could be seen in that ugly bucket without a paper bag on your head.

Just who thought using a 3 year old's finger painting as boat plans was a good idea?

You definitely, positively, absolutely do not want to chill the exhaust between the engine and a turbo - more, no humid gas can be going into the turbo, the turbine would be toast in hours. The header tubes need to run hot. In a marine app they are commonly wrapped with glass fiber to retain the hea...

Didin't get the gearbox op rod timed to the stem properly. Nissan manual says to put it in FWD, and the lever FWD then assemble, if I remember right, but that way is a PITA to get the fork to slip over the pin, time it for NTRL. Take lower back off, put control in N, and be sure to set lower case sh...