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    Seacock and thruhull questions

    Hi all, Need to replace my head's seized ball valve, wonder would it be wise to take this opportunity to replace all others (quite stiff too). I have 7 holes underwater line in my boat; 2 for engines (mercury 1 1/4" water pickup valve) 1 for the genny (apollo 3/4" bronze ball valve mounted...
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    Replacing seacock without disturbing the thruhull skin fitting

    Hi all, Recently notice that my head seacock (Apollo ball value) was seized. Will replace it during the next haul out in a few months. But wondering what's the correct way to remove it without disturbing the "mushroom head" thruhull skin fitting. Some people say if the thruhull thread...
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    Stripes of bare aluminium appeared on outdrives

    Hi, Recently antifouled the hull and repainted the bravo 3 outdrives, took the boat out to sea maybe 3 o 4 times since. This morning I dived to clean the drives and surprised to see several large stripes of paint were gone, leaving only bare aluminium. I contacted immediately the marina guy who...
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    Install Racor as an additional filter ?

    Hi all, A couple months back my genny bogged during an overnight excursion, water in the port fuel tank was the culprit. Replaced the standard gaso/water separator filter and sucked the culprit out from both tanks. Lucky for me that night it did not bogg the engines instead. To prevent future...
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    Bravo 3 outdrives trim tilt speed and position differ from one another

    Hello, I have just replaced my trim ram assemblies and hoses on both outdrives. Trim fluid on the port drive looks good but starboard turned milky and need to be replaced. Unfortunately I couldn't get the original quicksilver power trim fluid from the local marine shop (out of stock) so I...
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