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Re: How old were you when you bought your first boat? The young are not buying boats 28 when I bought our current 175 a few years ago.

I have not attached 2 tubes at a time before but I agree with Cliff that I would use the hooks in the rear corners. I have what I believe is called a Ski Bridle that I attach to those hooks when I pull anything instead of using the ski rope eye.

Hello to all....:smt001 I am in need of some help diagnosing a bit on an issue I am having. I spent the majority of yesterday getting our 1995 175 (3.0L Alpha 1) ready for the season. Changed the oil, gear lube, toped off fluids and checked the impeller. When we got her open the impeller looked...

As everyone else has already said just take your time. I spent more time just looking at it delaying drilling the first hole into my perfectly good boat then I did actually doing the install. Good luck!

Welcome aboard and congrats!

Welcome aboard Hackman. The wife and I went through the same nervousness the first few times so I feel your pain. Once we got down our process it was a breeze. Good luck and enjoy the new boat.

I have only heard really good things (mostly from these forums) about their service so I would be surprised if they were giving you bad info. Although that info seems to be the opposite of what is on the website. I didn’t notice it being a problem when I used them the first time. I was out on...

I used the SX9510-60BL based on a chart I saw for the size of the boat and motor hp.

I was in a similar situation not long ago as I was looking for better performance and was considering changing my prop on my 175. After reading so many reviews of the Smart Tabs I decided to go that route first and see what all the fuss was about. I finally got them installed and the process was...

The correct measurement for your Mercruiser Alpha I Gen II drive is 20-3/4" (see page 4A-14). You and I have the same boat. They have the Gen II drives in them. There's also some troubleshooting steps for your symptoms on 1C-15...but you've pretty much figured that out. This might be...

No worries. I’m glad you brought that up so if someone sees this post will take the proper precautions. For charging I have a charger I keep at the house. I got it from Academy but I can’t remember the name of it. We live about an hour from the lake so anytime we go out I have plenty of time...

Those are all great points SRC. I should have stated when I posted that picture that was taken before I have completed the project. This was while I was installing the stereo and testing to make sure everything worked (that’s all I happened to have on my phone). I was just trying to show the...

I mounted mine in the compartment under the seat. I essentially turned that area into a dry storage and battery compartment. Not sure if you have seats like this or the bench in the back. Mine is directly in front of the battery so it was pretty easy to install there. I'll try to post a picture.

I imagine this can fluctuate from one gauge to another. On mine when in the full up position (where the trim limit would be not the trailer position) the gauge is at ¾ of the way up. Not sure if this is how it was originally or if after 17 years at some point something was fiddled with. My...

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Welcome to the Houston are Phil, Unfortunately I won’t be much help as I am up on the north side of town (The Woodlands) and have always gone to the lakes up here (Lake Houston. Lake Livingston, and Lake Conroe). I hope everything works out well and in time you can give me tips on great...

Thanks Guys. I got the wires spliced and everything seems to be operating correctly. I found this link below that appears to give me the correct measurement as to where the trim limit switch would have kicked in (had trouble finding the measurement in the Mercruiser Installation manual I found...

So at that connection there is a purple in and 2 blue wires (one in and one out). Is the goal to essentially connect all three of those together and completely bypass the black wires (that go to the limit switch) or to simply connect the purple wire to the blue wire that leaves that junction?

I’ve made the decision for the time being to bypass the limit switch. I consider myself a prudent driver and there are very few people I allow to drive other then myself. God forbid I have to pull the drive at some point for another reason I may change it out then. Unfortunately in the 15...

I had a similar question some time ago. I made the decision to add a second battery. There are a few different ways to get this done as the gents have suggested. Because I was starting from scratch with my entire system I added a second battery and ran everything stereo related to the new...