Hi Boat boy,
I fitted a Quick vertical to my 230 which was a rope and chain set up. It was a great winch with plenty of grunt.
A few things to look out for are retrieval speed, max pulling power and price. If you go with a reputable manufacturer you can't go wrong.
Run the recommended cable...
Hi Newman, thanks for the wishes... If you get to the Marlborough Sounds PM me and if I'm in the middle of the country I'll take you out on the water for the day, show you some sites ..... ><}}}*>
Hi all,
It's been a while since I have been on here as we have a New Zealand built boat at present.
I have had a look through the 400 sedan bridge thread and picked up on heaps of maintenance related info.
We are currently looking at yr2000-2002 400 Sedan bridges in America. They seem to be...
I would start by taking the rocker covers off, check for bent push rods or worse a dropped valve :(
I have seen a small block snap the top off a piston at the oil ring groove once.... Sounds similar.....It would run fine apart from a knock as the piston and skirt smack together. You should be...
I have had the same problem.... It was a poor connection on the circuit breaker (reset) stud. I only found it watching a spark jump from the lead to the stud.
Leaks in boats can be very hard to find... In my 230 I had a leak by one of the oval windows which I re-sealed twice. In the end I found the leak was coming from an aerial mount about 2 meters away and was tracking around the inside of the roof lining carpet!
Using tissue paper or blotting paper...
These are called ferrite filters and quite rightly are on most computer cables. I used to get depth sounder noise coming through the radio. Measure your antenna cable diameter, there are heaps on EBa*.
I fitted 2, one at the radio end of the antenna and the other at the antenna end and it...
You need a special tool to undo the cap under the anode (you can make one out of plate metal and 4x 3/16 screws or bolts). I take it the leg wouldn't trim up and down which led you down this road.....The reason I ask is it's normal for one ram to operate when they are disconnected at the leg.