Trojan Boat Forum

you can get the water pump impellers at west marine or other places probably less cost but you will need to know what pump you have. or take one out that is still intact to take with you. my chryslers have a sherwood pump and the sherwood 10615k impeller but you want to make sure what you have. did...

Ok so now I got good connections at all of my battery wires, cleaned all of them with a wire brush and used wd40 before I tightened em all down. Starboard motor fired right up after that, but seems as if carberator has an issue, idles fine but falls on its face when the throttle blades open. And I f...

one thing that will keep you from getting the rpms from the engines are the centrifigual advance mechanisms in the distributors. take the cap of and see if the advance can be moved and see if it snaps back when you let go of it. theres a good chance there is rust and the springs are weak or gone. i...

Thanks for the reply. I am going to replace the battery cables to the solenoid and the starter tonight on the stbd motor by making my own and crimping the ends on. After that im gonna fire it up and see if the manifold still leaks. Yesterday when I was adjusting the packing on the port motor I could...

We took the boat out last night, stayed about 170 on the port temp gauge and held good oil pressure. Couldn't get it much above 2200 rpm before it would fall on its face, but we were only running one motor, is that about normal for one motor? We only ran one motor because the stbd motor wouldn't cra...

I didnt know you could mount a depth finder in the bilge. I always thought they had to be mounted on the transom. What is everyone using that's bilge mountable? Are they accurate?

Hello all, I am new to the form, and I have got to say there is a good wealth of information here that is very helpful. I just bought a 1975 F30 with twin 225 chrysler 318s and it needs a little TLC. It has been in the water for awhile, but lived aboard by the previous owner for the past 2 years. It...