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Recent content by ezstriper

  1. ezstriper

    Checkmate Powerboats to be Dissolved

    The boat market has changed dramatically over the last 10 years, If you are not doing center consoles or pontoons you have missed the boat...literally. So with them not making a change, they only had the one 25 CC they did not promote worth a crap you could see this coming...sad as the boats...
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    270 convincor props and setup

    I agree with above comments, thinking bravo 1 24p would be best all around prop...tested many on my 251, 253, hard to beat the bravo 1. Mirage+ a tad faster but not as good everywhere else
  3. ezstriper

    Slow electric hatch opening...

    well known issue on many makes, the relay is the best answer
  4. ezstriper

    im surprised that I havent read about this here

    I've seen a couple of the Baja ones floating around now and then, they also had a 28 as well..
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    New Toy to Tinker With!

    Pressure washer !!! lol:bigthumb:
  6. ezstriper

    Checkmate logo wanted

    can make early and late styles in any size/color Rob @ ezstriper@aol.com
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    Bravo-1 or Hydromotive prop?

    On my procharged 253 the bravo 1 worked better, but the hydro we tried was a LH and boat did not like it...
  8. ezstriper

    New Toy to Tinker With!

    I have a 13 that I bought new, been a great vehicle, use around my small farm, you will love it !!! gets a bit warm inside in summer !!
  9. ezstriper

    Upgrading Smartcraft guages from analog

    early 2000's were the beginning of smartcraft and extremly incompatability between the ECM and the gauges(which are not all the same). I ran into this on my 2001 optimax O/B with had smartcraft gauges but faces were killed. I talked to merc many times, they told me what gauges I needed, no go...
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    '1986 251 I/O conversion to twin O/B's

    No, you want a aluminum tank...seen some nice aluminum engine brackets as well, my CC has a real nice one and have seen the same one for twins
  11. ezstriper

    '1986 251 I/O conversion to twin O/B's

    the trash can full of foam brought back memories of when I redid the floor in my 251...mine weighed well over 100 lbs soaking wet ! great job !
  12. ezstriper

    BIG News Coming Soon.....

    I have worked on the smartcraft stuff, the speedo has a separate tube connection from the water pressure, like a bravo drive type.
  13. ezstriper

    What engine do I exactly have..

    as far as I know they never made a mark IV style 502, decals are cheap, drive could have been changed from another boat, somebody had changed the dribe on my 502mpi and it said 454. Without pulling engine apart no way to tell what you really have.
  14. ezstriper

    454 MAG MPI Pro Charger upgrade

    Its all about the setup and the tuning...do like instructions say and you are in trouble
  15. ezstriper

    Leaky Boat? End of Day Drainage

    unhook the battery, lift bow very high and add water watch here comes out...goes both ways usually
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