It sounds like snake oil, but a distributor of these 'magic" black boxes has offered to give me one free for trial with one my DD 6-71's to prove they work. I'm sorry, but I'm still skeptical. I read the articles on BoatDiesel.com and the results are inconclusive. The distitibutor is...

Has anyone repaired or replaced the Rayline Search Light of 1978 vintage or similar? Mine will not rotate. Would appreciate any advice

Someone, I can't recall who, asked me to post a few details of this device, as other folks might want to build one. Total cost was less than $100. I found that when I ran my boat in warm weather, after shutting the engines down, a lot of heat remained in the engine room. Since heat rises, the...

can anyone reccomend a good manual or set of manuals to maintain/repair JT671ti's ??

I was looking in my electricla panel last night, in teh 70 53MY the electical panel is in the port engine room and have a couple of questions... - on the wall inside the panel, I have 3 black donut shape devices, marked transformers... 2 near the top, one a tthe bottom. they appear to be...

I posted about my engine issues. I decided to most likely rebuild the current crusaders but I talked with some people and decided for the heck of it to look into repowering with diesel. I was considering Yanmar because of the weight and what I hear about them. A salesperson brought up an...

Okay....we took my 32ft 1985 FB out for the first run of the season. Round trip only about 50nm. 2nm from the inlet, on the way back, we heard a manging noise that seems to be a lifting rod on the port engine. We haven't opened her up yet to take a look inside but will next weekend. The engines...

Anyone know a relatively inexpensive source for a raw water pump for a DD 4-53? My mechanic says it'll cost about $1,000 for him to rebuild it. Seems like there ought to be someone who rebuilds them in bulk cheaper but I haven't found them. Mine is shooting about a pencil sized stream of water...

Last week, as I was getting ready to move onto my boat for a week, my freshwater pump quit. It is a Groco WSP-80, about a year old. Groco replaced it for free last year as an previous Groco system stopped working with a blown electric motor. I called Groco at 4pm on a Friday afternoon. A guy...

my 1970 53MY has an auxiliary 12 volt system, like most I guess, for electronics. of course in 30 years, there has been some creative wiring along the way and each boat is now very different but ... - I didn't see any reference to the 32v system in the hatteras manual and plans, am I right to...