Took the old girl for a test run yesterday. I'm a little confused. Came out of the channel and started to power up the throttle and eventually got up on plane and ran around 24 mph on gps. I'm not used to a boat this size and this heavy. When I powered up I brought the rpm's to 4k and to me...
We told by mechanic today that the motor has to removed to replace a deteriorated transom plate. My 250 DA has a Alpha One drive. I was poking around CSR looking for similar posts. It seems my transom plate has corroded just below the grease fitting. My question is... Can I carefully...
I was inspecting the 3 bellows and they seam hard almost crusty. And I have the boat scheduled to be hauled next week. I just purchased my 250 DA in Oct last year and was just going through all systems.
I have never worked on a stern drive before but I have the manual and i'm not afraid...
I currently have a bilge pump in the engine compartment and one just outside the head. They are on switches one is labeled bilge and the other is step down pump. Apparentlly they are both tied to the master ON/OFF switch. I'm going to keep the boat on a mooring this year and would like to...
1986 250 DA
Finally got rid of the mid 80's power blue countertop and table. I replaced the countertop @ the sink with Corian and relaminated the table top. With plastic laminate this looks close to the Corian. Also decided not to put the stove back in, we use the bbq. I'm going to put the...
I just purchased a 1986 Sundancer 250, Mercruiser 260 IO FWC. There is a raw water pickup on the bottom on the hull, and that goes in the the exchanger, there is also the water pickup on the outdrive.
Now my question, If I pull off the hose on the inside of the boat and attach a fresh...
I just bought a great 1986 25 foot Sundancer in awsome shape, it's a very nice boat. I'm looking to find out the pro's and cons of this perticular model. Is there anything I shoud be looking for?
Anybody have any good tips/how to on how to replace the upper exhaust bellows on a 350 Mercruiser?
Never done this before, do you start at the elbows and remove them to get to the bellows?
Thanks in Advance