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Just an older 200 mercury 2 stroke

selling my personal boat, the "Searona". 1996 17 Sea Hunt, 1999 150 Johnson Ocean runner( 60 degree motor). Hydraulic steering. Flip flop sea. bimini top, plenty of rod holders. Single axle trailer. I'll see if I can upload some pictures. Found a bigger boat that i want. $7500 OBO. Located in...

I'm a marine mechanic with 38 years experience, I used to specialize in stern drives. If you can do the labor, sterndrives can be more affordable than outboards, but there is much more than can go wrong in a stern drive than an outboard. 30 years ago I would have rather had a stern drive...

I've got an 86 2.4 200 mercury

As far as filling your tank, it's true,that a metal tank will condense water from the atmosphere,but it's a very small amount( I've done test). Your tank being plastic completely negates this as well. OEM manufactures consider any fuel.over 90 days old bad gas. I'd rather have a small amount of...

Did you look at the fittings on the tank? Fill,vent and supply? I see a lot of corroded antisiphon valves

you probably have a stopped up vent and the gas leaked out under the pressure of a full tank. check the area around the fuel sender, its the most common place to find a leak. BTW, keep your tank as close to empty during storage and fill with fresh fuel in the spring

time to do a rewire

Don't mix types of batteries, use a starting battery for your engine and for your house battery. The only place you need a deep cycle battery, is if you are planning on deep cycling it, meaning running the battery down to low power. If you have a trolling motor or battery bank with an invertor...

personally I think their installation cost is a bit high unless theres more to it that explained. I've used SEI outdrives and lower units in the past. I had a 50% failure rate with them. They took care if it, but I still had to pay shipping and eat the labor, so I lost money on every one that...

you could replace the black panel with black plexi glass and use Blue Seas panel for your switches. Stay away from the amazon switch panels, Ive had nothing but trouble with them

New Wire Marine in N Charleston SC. They arent cheap, but its good stuff. Also check out Essenbay marine on Ebay

They look like Yamaha digital gauges from the pic. Do you have a Yamaha engine on it? There are several companies that specialize in restoring those gauges. It isnt cheap, but its cheaper than replacements.

Generally, the mercury xs,xr, or r series was pushing the envelope of the SAE 10% rating. Same with the OMC xp and gt. Yamaha was never consistent in it, especially on the 4 strokes. The early f150 made close to 180 hp,the later model 150 made 150, the sho 175 is just a 200 with stickers and a...

Reel knew someone that had a Scorpion. It was light blue, beautiful boat. Dont know if it got finished or not

Most of the time, a twin boat Wil not plane out with one engine, and if it does, it's usually over propped and burns up the "good" engine getting back in. The 26 Sea Hunt with twin 150s is the exception, and they have a cult following because of it

the Chris Craft is by far the best looking variation of the step lift, unfortunately, CC was using a new resin at the time and had a lot of delamination issues. Its rare to see any late 70's early 80's ChrisCrafts nowadays. I've known of two CC that had been restored only for the hulls to...

I'm always 10 deep i projects. Just got thru putting up a raised bed planter for my girlfriend, now i have to fill it with dirt. The good part is she's growing vegetables in it to cook with, she's an incredible cook

Mopar? They are gone, thanks to Stanlatis,