First ride and she runs rough and won’t get over 4300 RPM. I assume bad gas and will burn thru this tank and then change the cool fuel filters.
Might have a bad alternator or bad battery - what’s the easiest way to diagnose? Batteries are two years old and AGM. Leaning toward battery issue as the boat has been on shore power for over a week.
I replaced it, but stayed with the 6-gallon water heater. If somebody really needs a long shower, there's infinite hot water as long as the engine is running.
@YYZRC....agreed the shower is awesome as is the head - we had a vacuflush toilet.....awesome too. In some places in the cabin the head room is SEVEN feet! The front berth is an island berth and is 'uge. Two fridges, ice maker and on and on. LOVED that boat! You are gonna have a blast with it. BTW it just ate rough water on the St. Lawrence! Have you installed the coloured underwater light$ yet?
@YYZRC yes, I extended it. I am 6'6" so the factory configuration was a bit short for me too. We did two things to get extra room for me. First we added about 4" of mattress padding that raised the bed higher up the hull making the bed wider and then I added an aluminum platform at the base (stern) of the bed that extended the bed around 16". I played with that piece quite a bit to get it best for me. It was out of aluminum. It mimicked the shape of the bed so it was still an island and we could both get on it from "our" respective sides. I think it was about 3/16" thick. It was plenty strong. I was going to fabricate slides for it so it could be retracted in the day time but never did instead I just screwed it onto the factory platform. Of course I had to remove the padded factory "rail" that went around it to attach the aluminum piece. I could have pieced a section of new mattress foam onto the factory mattress but instead we bought a whole new lower half and the Admiral sewed a new mattress cover. It was excellent and I had plenty of room from that point on. If you have any more questions don't hesitate of PM me and we could talk on the phone or whatever works for you.
Thanks @Michael T. I am thinking about modifying it so that it’s the same as the bed when you have the stateroom. I will add a panel next to the closet on the starboard side where I can mount a TV.
@YYZRC....interesting. The Admiral nixed that idea as she didn't want anyone to have to climb over to get to the head at night. I looked at a new EC400 at the time and while there was room enough in the enclosed stateroom it was clear that there would have to be some climbing over your partner to get out at night whereas with the extension there was not. We had a big TV mounted on the wall as you came down the stairs that you could see clearly and one could still be mounted on the starboard clothes cupboard by the bed. I'll see if I can find some pictures. Attached is the modified bed which was Queen sized plus about 10" wide and King sized plus long. Also shown is the big TV screen (satellite connected) on the cabin wall as you enter and there was a 22" Majestic marine TV on the Port arch (also satellite connected) in the cockpit aft seating area.
Mercury MSRP is CDN$161.30. Most Mercruiser dealers should have it in stock but if you get free shipping from Amazon it's a better deal if you can wait for delivery.
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Power couple!!
I also got the windshield gasket replaced and accumulator tank installed. Almost summer ready!
Workin’ her to burn off the old gas.
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