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Yeah I have herd that a new prop will "clean up" the wake a little bit but have no first hand experience with that, yet, I do plan on putting a new prop on this year for all the same reason you list...

Nice, I ended up painting what little teak I had left black to match my interior, mistake, it has since peeled- and this bow hatch cover somehow managed to shrink up and crack, not saying its due to...

Looking back at this wake that day, two things came to mind- I was beat after surfing all day, and this run was when I finally went ropeless, thigh burner. 2ndly', I just noticed how much my swim...

Wow, it looks like this thread came back to life! Where there is the will there is the way, nice wake!

Last summer I made a DIY "wake gate" out of plastic which attaches to the Port side swim step/bracket. It did improve my wave significantly in terms of lengthening the wake, as well as cleanness of...

Thats nice work man, I would like to see the wave in action. I also like how you mounted them to the transom, through the swim step, where did you mount the switch? How does is do when the tabs are...

So a DIY'er were talking at best 3k for a stringer job, sounds like a project worth undertaking eventually. With my Saltare, I paid 3000.00 with the trailer and 350 hours on it, and the stringers...

Just out of curiosity, do you have a break down for those numbers? I have a Saltare, and like most on here have done or anticipate doing, will be a stringer job, but as mine sits its in pretty solid...

I think that is just dumb luck...... ^

Either way, I replaced my starter with the aforementioned unit, and it now works awesome first bump start is nice! Thanks for that, btw- same boat as yours...

This may be true, or the PO may have done this... they look to be in good shape?

Either way, removed the old starter heavy beast new one was 1/3 the weight. The connections at the starter end...

I will double check everything, and check the cables. Well new starter arrived today, hope it does the trick!15903

Cracked head blows! I am working out some issues with my boats starting at the moment (but you might allready know this) but a little easier than a cracked head. I like those actuators above, I...

Copy that, it might simplify things to just use electrical actuators. I just liked how they came as a kit with everything needed, but the pump and mounting it muddies things a bit.

I had thought about replacing the cables, but I might cut back the cable at the terminal/connector to replace the connectors, and check the inside of the cable to see if there is corrosion? I know...

Thats a nice wave! Out of curiosity, how were you able to feed the cable from the actuator to the switch, did you route it through the transom? Also, what actuators did you use? I was looking online...

Yeah Lk. Billy is sweet, its about 25min. from the house so its "close". Its supposed to be 100 degrees again and has been for the last few days, I reckon the water will warm right up at that rate!

Here is a few of the Lk. off the phone, water was still coooold (63 ish) however the air was hot, approaching 100, water will catch up eventually! Either way, only a few other boats on the whole lk. ...

My boat is a 87 Saltare, I did look at all the connections they "seemed" to look okay, I cleaned them up as best I could. I went ahead and ordered a new starter off of Amazon per this thread:...

So stepping back to this, was on the water today, all was ok for the most part. I am noticing however really slow cranking from the dock, Then got underway after running for about 20 minutes of slow...

Yeah I did a full winterization, and pulled the battery, charging it occasionally throughout the winter. Its just the motor is a beast, takes a little "motivation" after hibernating all winter....

So luckily the problem lied in one of these things: I double checked that the throttle was in Neutral ( back in forth F/R a hand full of times) traced the cable to the transmission double checking it...

I like that swim step! Teak?

Battery in for the 1st time this season, turn key, and click, nothing afterwards? No accessory power/light on now no nada..... GO!

PM Sent, thanks.

Sorry been away doing other stuff for a bit. I believe this day I was running 300 rear locker, I have 800 surf side, and two 250 on the rear bench seat. The trick this day was I had tried out my DIY...