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#676
Main Message Board / Santa bought me my first camera
January 03, 2011, 08:26:29 AM
How do you post pics?
#677
I can remember a while back when there were two separate groups gnashing their teeth over whether to switch from an E-mail based discussions format to the newfangled alternative, a BB that became this site.

Anything new is worth trying, who knows maybe we'll like it?


Quote from: Stu Jackson on December 10, 2010, 04:51:44 PM
Quote from: Lance Jones on December 10, 2010, 02:01:25 PM
Why haven't we done Facebook yet?

Lance, please consider this a personal response, rather than a formal one from the C34IA Officers.

Facebook would, could, might, should, maybe will cause a breakdown of this very website.

The potential dilution of the material from this single repository of dialog and information to yet another form of electronic communication, in my view, would have the potential for reducing this site's importance.

As it is, this is THE place to go for any and all C34 information, as folks have just mentioned in this topic.

We have been extremely fortunate enough to have a band of skippers who have volunteered their time and effort for over the past 20 years into making this one of the best, if not the best website for a single boat probably in the history of that "innernet tube thingy."

Please consider the unforeseen consequences of suggesting that yet another method of communications between C34 owners be used.

Thanks for listening.

Stu
#678
Main Message Board / Re: Engine replacement
December 01, 2010, 07:57:37 AM
I too have a similiarlly aged engine which runs well, keeps it temps, burns no oil and seems to still have good power.  What has happened to your engine that makes replacing it necessary?  I've been told if these lumps are given the proper maitenace the'll practically live forever?

Some background info might help the rest of us.
#679
Main Message Board / Re: RPM Mystery
November 26, 2010, 12:52:02 PM
Thanks for confirming my suspicion.  Our engine laser tached at about 700 and shook and sounded like crap.  Raising the idle to about 1000 smoothed things right out but I was worried that I might be shock loading the trans?  Sounds like I'll be ok,  so thanks again.
#680
Main Message Board / Re: RPM Mystery
November 26, 2010, 07:01:34 AM
Ron,
What is the proper idle rpm for the 25xp?
#681
Check your plastic tank for a permantly affixed registration plate.  All permanently mounted below deck fuel tanks have to be approved.
If there's no plate you could have a PO installed who-knows-what cheap substitution.
#682
Main Message Board / Re: Exterior Teak Finish
November 11, 2010, 04:43:52 PM
Quote from: Stu Jackson on November 11, 2010, 12:31:07 PM
From a conceptual point of view, having someone else do something on your boat that YOU can't do is counterproductive to DIY work.


I with you Stu, nobody touches my baby except for haul out/in and then not unless I'm watching.
... but I have no problem with my wife going to the gentleman Gynecologist,  who I have never even met.
#683
Main Message Board / Re: Exterior Teak Finish
November 10, 2010, 06:26:34 AM
Deks olje.  Looks like a nice varnish and has a fairly hard finish.  With 3 to 4 coats in the spring, lasts all summer.  Bare spots and nicks are easily repaired and invisable.
Downside; Has to be completly stripped after 10 to 12 yrs because it darkens.
Pros; Easier and more forgiving than varnish.
       Doesn't look like sh!tty brown or orange paint.

#684
Main Message Board / Re: Rudder play
November 10, 2010, 05:30:45 AM
Quote from: Ron Hill on November 09, 2010, 05:45:53 PM
Lazybones : If you look at the top of the steering quadrant I'm sure that you will find some grease as that PVC pipe just below the tiller cap had a center section cut out - specifically for the Edson steering quadrant.  Then it has the rudder packing gland on the lower section.   In the heat of the summer the best grease goes somewhere from the top section and I suspect it is down!!


As I said, after I wipe off the initial small squeezed out bit of grease it stays clean.  Maybe wheel bearing grease doesn't doesn't act like you say?  If wheel bearing grease changed viscosity so easily why doesn't it do so in auto wheel bearings that get so hot the devil would chafe.  It's been about 19yrs so  :donno:
#685
Main Message Board / Re: Rudder play
November 09, 2010, 05:07:30 PM
Quote from: 2ndwish on November 08, 2010, 07:37:17 PM
Thanks to all for the feedback.
lazybone- Does the grease from the upper bearing find its way out and make a mess or does it stay put? What grease do you use?


I use boat trailer bearing grease, which is very waterproof.  I usually give the grease gun a squeeze or two (while someone else turns the wheel back and forth)until I notice just a bit oozing out.  I wipe up the excess and all is well until the following year.
#686
Main Message Board / Re: Rudder play
November 08, 2010, 12:18:44 PM
 We installed Zerk fittings in both the lower and upper rudder bearings shortly after we bought #677 in 1987 and have never noticed any play.  We attached a piece of grease gun hose to the lower bearing Zerk and lead it higher where we could easily access it.
I'm not sure if it was necessary but we dropped the whole rudder in order to drill the holes and clean out the crap drilling leaves.
#687
Quote from: waterdog on October 26, 2010, 05:14:51 PM
Quote from: lazybone on October 26, 2010, 04:02:41 PM
You could have told your story here in less than a short paragraph.
Hope things work out for you.

You're right!  I'm going to modify the opening post so I don't waste people's time.  I get carried away with words sometimes.  

Things won't work out for me.   The best thing to do is run and hide.  But I know dozens of others have done exactly that and that is how I ended up dealing with a scoundrel.  People should know.  That's why I bothered to write the story. 

Steve, my apologies for that post.
Sometimes my ADD kicks and reading is a chore.
#688
You could have told your story here in less than a short paragraph.
Hope things work out for you.
#689
Main Message Board / Re: Raw Water Pumps
October 25, 2010, 02:16:25 PM
My Gal came new from the factory with a Sherwood.  After two 90 mile trips by the Catalina dealer to make warrenty repairs to the pump they changed it over to an Oberdoffer (sp).
No problems for twelve years.

We replaced it with another obee after 12 yrs because it began to leak.
#690
Main Message Board / Re: Water strainer gasket
October 25, 2010, 01:57:46 PM
I'm guessing we're talking about the same small plastic strainer that came on my #677.
Buy a large nice 3/4" Perko to replace it.  The original is so small a gum wrapper will shut it down.