On Jun 2, 8:00*am, HK wrote:
Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 20:38:07 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

remember my dad having an aluminum boat when I was a kid. *It had a
Mercury 115 "tower of power"

Neightbor has a aluminum boat since 1970 or so. Has a tall Merc 100
hp. I am pretty sure he pull starts it. I have started a 109
Graymarine by stomping on a crank stuck in a nut on the front of the
crankshaft. *Started first kick every time. We trashed the starter
when the key stuck at start. Got a cream separator crank at a
junkyard, and put a cross pin in the end of it. We swapped in a Buick
V-6 and lost that capability. A friend had one of the first of the
Land Cruisers and it had a crank, as did my Land Rover. Why don't all
the smaller cars have one?

Casady

Because a crank wouldn't start a modern car, even a small one, without
significant changes under the hood?- Hide quoted text -

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Holy ****! This from someone who claimed at one time to have a
mechanical engineering degree!!! Why wouldn't a crank start a "modern
car"? With electronic ignition and fuel injection "modern cars" start
much easier than carberator and points/condenser engines.

wrote:
On Jun 2, 8:00 am, HK wrote:
Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 20:38:07 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
remember my dad having an aluminum boat when I was a kid. It had a
Mercury 115 "tower of power"
Neightbor has a aluminum boat since 1970 or so. Has a tall Merc 100
hp. I am pretty sure he pull starts it. I have started a 109
Graymarine by stomping on a crank stuck in a nut on the front of the
crankshaft. Started first kick every time. We trashed the starter
when the key stuck at start. Got a cream separator crank at a
junkyard, and put a cross pin in the end of it. We swapped in a Buick
V-6 and lost that capability. A friend had one of the first of the
Land Cruisers and it had a crank, as did my Land Rover. Why don't all
the smaller cars have one?
Casady
Because a crank wouldn't start a modern car, even a small one, without
significant changes under the hood?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Holy ****! This from someone who claimed at one time to have a
mechanical engineering degree!!! Why wouldn't a crank start a "modern
car"? With electronic ignition and fuel injection "modern cars" start
much easier than carberator and points/condenser engines.

I love it when Harry hints at being knowledgeable about something. He is
such a doofus.

wrote:

We went out on the new boat this morning... Pulled out of the slip at
9am, picked up a friend at his lake house at 10am, the went to
Spinners for brunch.
http://spinnersresort.com/
Ate brunch there, then cruised the lake, checked out a couple of
marinas up the river, messed around until late afternoon. Dropped him
off about 6pm, covered the boat up back at the slip about 7:30pm.
Saw an old Starcraft boat... all aluminum, it was pretty cool. Also
saw another Premier pontoon with a Yamaha 350 on it (!).
A 350? Damn! Can they be fitted with twins?

The local dealer has one... a 10' wide deck 28 footer... that has twin
225s on it. It seems like it was $72k. Pretty cool, it doesn't have
a swim ladder. It just has maybe 4 foot wide"steps" in the center of
the "transom" that lead down to the water.


I was thinking something along the lines of twin 115's would be better
than a 350 in the middle. Twin 225's must be beyond the rated limit!

jim78 wrote:
HK wrote:
Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 20:38:07 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

remember my dad having an aluminum boat when I was a kid. It had a
Mercury 115 "tower of power"

Neightbor has a aluminum boat since 1970 or so. Has a tall Merc 100
hp. I am pretty sure he pull starts it. I have started a 109
Graymarine by stomping on a crank stuck in a nut on the front of the
crankshaft. Started first kick every time. We trashed the starter
when the key stuck at start. Got a cream separator crank at a
junkyard, and put a cross pin in the end of it. We swapped in a Buick
V-6 and lost that capability. A friend had one of the first of the
Land Cruisers and it had a crank, as did my Land Rover. Why don't all
the smaller cars have one?

Casady


Because a crank wouldn't start a modern car, even a small one, without
significant changes under the hood?


What kind of changes?

He has no idea. He's just punching away at his keyboard.