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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,774 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You might be able to find a hub that’s thinner. I can’t remember if there will be enough room to put the center cap back on though. Contact Isotta and let them know what your looking for or want to do, maybe they can help you. The model steering wheel you have is the Isotta Carlotta. 


    2008 330EC
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,774 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This is what your hub looks like. It’s possible you can have that top section milled down. Again, you will have to take notice if there will be enough room for you center cap to be installed with the extra material removed.


    2008 330EC
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,774 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If you go ahead and have this done and it doesn’t work out how you want, Hardin marine sells new hubs. These can’t be milled, there’re a different design. I had to order a new one because some of the bolts were corroded in and snapped. I was able to remove a couple but not all of the broken screws.

    https://www.hardin-marine.com/p-104178-splined-steering-wheel-hub.aspx
    2008 330EC
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  • YYZRCYYZRC Member Posts: 5,417 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks Aero!  Is the original hub metal or composite?  I pulled the wheel off last time I was at the boat but I didn't take note of the material.
    2006 390 EC
    2008 350 EC
    Georgian Bay
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,774 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It’s aluminum.
    2008 330EC
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  • YYZRCYYZRC Member Posts: 5,417 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2020
    What a nightmare of a task to remove the seawater pumps on a SeaCore engine because of the air fittings. The port motor water pump bracket had a tab on it (“had” because it has now been ground off) that wouldn’t let it slide past the harmonic balancer without removing the cool fuel box.  :/  Starboard side tab had already been removed so that was a 20 minute job. 



    On the plus side (?!), I found a bad alternator and a bad pulley so I will fix that stuff up. 

    Aero, on my starboard engine, the cool fuel box is right up against the fibreglass where the genny sits - is yours like this too?
    2006 390 EC
    2008 350 EC
    Georgian Bay
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,774 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don’t understand why those tabs are on some brackets. Both of my brackets didn’t have them and there were no signs of them being ground off,strange. Yes, starboard side is up against the fiberglass. I didn’t have to remove it so not sure how difficult it is to get out.
    2008 330EC
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  • Liberty44140Liberty44140 Member Posts: 4,414 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Good move grinding off the tab. I just dealt with them but always said I’d like to grind them off. They are just a nuisance. 
    07' Cruisers 390 (Previous Rinker's: 06' 342EC & 01' 310FV)

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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,774 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It also helps a TON if the studs come out of the block when you remove the pump.
    2008 330EC
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  • reneechris14reneechris14 Member Posts: 3,134 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My studs came out with the bracket so pump came out easy. But I never gound that tab off os next time I'll have to loosen the fuel module. I also leave the back connected and take the 10mm bolts out and the front housing.
    2005 Rinker FV342  Pawcatuck river,Ct
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,774 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @reneechris14 , does your pump have the quick release fitting on the inlet hose?
    2008 330EC
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  • reneechris14reneechris14 Member Posts: 3,134 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No, one hose to the sea strainer and other to tramsom. In do have air fittings for the horizon set up.
    2005 Rinker FV342  Pawcatuck river,Ct
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  • YYZRCYYZRC Member Posts: 5,417 ✭✭✭✭✭
    aero3113 said:
    Yes, starboard side is up against the fiberglass. I didn’t have to remove it so not sure how difficult it is to get out.
    Do you worry about damage to it rubbing against the hull? I guess they have survived for 10 years now but seems like a bad design. 
    2006 390 EC
    2008 350 EC
    Georgian Bay
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  • YYZRCYYZRC Member Posts: 5,417 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2020
    reneechris14 said:
    No, one hose to the sea strainer and other to tramsom. In do have air fittings for the horizon set up.
    Do you have the old style design (no wear plate)? One of mine is old style and the other is newer with the wear plate. There’s some scoring on the old version and I’m debating replacing it or having the face milled down. The part is hyper expensive  :'(
    2006 390 EC
    2008 350 EC
    Georgian Bay
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,774 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @YYZRC , mine isn’t rubbing on the fiberglass just very close.
    2008 330EC
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,774 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2020
    You can see in these pics I have that it’s close but not touching. 



    2008 330EC
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  • YYZRCYYZRC Member Posts: 5,417 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think mine is actually touching. Will get a pic next time!
    2006 390 EC
    2008 350 EC
    Georgian Bay
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,774 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Next time I’m in the boat I’ll take a closer look.
    2008 330EC
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,774 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I do know that in order for me to get the blue drain plug out, I have to remove the screw for the clamp that supports the white drain hose that’s in the pic (clamp is behind the wire harness).
    2008 330EC
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  • YYZRCYYZRC Member Posts: 5,417 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I can't find a vendor that has the template for the 330/340 cockpit carpet - any suggestions?  I really don't want to be bothered shipping my old carpet to be templated.
    2006 390 EC
    2008 350 EC
    Georgian Bay
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  • reneechris14reneechris14 Member Posts: 3,134 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Last year I put the Hardin pumps on so now I have wear plates. 
    2005 Rinker FV342  Pawcatuck river,Ct
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,774 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @YYZRC , mine definitely isn’t touching.


    2008 330EC
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  • reneechris14reneechris14 Member Posts: 3,134 ✭✭✭✭✭
    the motors in the 342 definitely sit different. This was before the new pumps.
    2005 Rinker FV342  Pawcatuck river,Ct
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,774 ✭✭✭✭✭
    WoW, big difference on how they sit.
    2008 330EC
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  • YYZRCYYZRC Member Posts: 5,417 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks for verifying! I will check mine again, maybe I was imagining it. I had been contorted for quite some time under there!!

    Any recommendations on a really good degreaser to clean the bilge?
    2006 390 EC
    2008 350 EC
    Georgian Bay
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,774 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Purple Power and a scrub brush. Let it sit for a few minutes an go to town!
    https://www.walmart.com/ip/Purple-Power-Degreaser-1-Gallon/16778256?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&wl13=2915&adid=22222222228019585098&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=m&wl3=40839547112&wl4=aud-430887228898:pla-78652797032&wl5=9004502&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=local&wl12=16778256&veh=sem&gclid=Cj0KCQiAhojzBRC3ARIsAGtNtHXQ3Ms4wAjzhvvHTmIhnnQQp51kP5fayQ_80Kr7f542iyTg0ru1gZkaAvbLEALw_wcB
    2008 330EC
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  • YYZRCYYZRC Member Posts: 5,417 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just picked this up - stoked to have the right wheel!


    2006 390 EC
    2008 350 EC
    Georgian Bay
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  • reneechris14reneechris14 Member Posts: 3,134 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That is a sweet wheel
    2005 Rinker FV342  Pawcatuck river,Ct
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  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,774 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice!! Did that come from Rinker? Mine had a black center cap, had to buy the cap from Rinker.
    2008 330EC
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  • Dream_InnDream_Inn Member, Moderator Posts: 7,924 mod
    YYZRC said:
    Just picked this up - stoked to have the right wheel!


    That's the wheel I have.  Definitely love it!

    Dream 'Inn III -- 2008 400 Express

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