Jmorris195
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- 16
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- Location
- Ozark, AL
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2021
- Boat Model
- AR
- Boat Length
- 19
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I grew up boating in salt. I was tasked with cleaning/maintaining the boat. So it was engrained at a young age. It was significantly more work keeping up with a salt boat than this one. I will say this is my last black boat. I should have gone with the white/gray/red color scheme for the 2020 model. This is too much damn work.@suke , damn it man your boat never seems to be dirty whereas mine is never clean. I’m jealous but also admittedly lazy about cleaning the boat.
Always wondered how PPF would do in a marine environment. Let me know how it holds up.I definitely agree with the difficulty of a black hull. I tried ceramic coating , it helped but still was not good enough. I just had my boat wrapped with a gloss clear wrap by ceramic pro it’s a self healing film. it was done from the rub rail down to the water line. Made the whole side of the boat really pop. It’s a self healing wrap so even if you scuff it or tear it the wrap will mend itself back together. I’m done with the boating season in NY to see how it works. It will def make cleaning easier and hopefully add a little stess free protection as well. Just a thought.
I always put some dielectric grease on the porcelain of the plugs to keep the coil boots from sticking to the plugs and I see never seize oh no all the torque heads will be upset lol I also use that and always have just a tad on the threads and never have a plug get stuck And for the intermediate bearings I put a hose barb on the housing and run some tubing out away from the cover . And I inject gear lube I never grease those as was discussed many times this avoids pressurizing the inside of the bearing housing and prevents separation of the rubber from the housing and prevents damaging the seals plus the gear lube lubricates the inner parts a lot better as I also do that to my pump bearings and had the original pumps and bearings etc at 850 hours when I sold my last 2- 2014 fxho cruisers .I changed the spark plugs in both of my Waverunners in about an hour. Not much to see but here are some pics anyway. I also assembled the intermediate bearing grease extensions for both Waverunners (the bearings are hard to get to in both the FX and GP.
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Interesting! From the first time I took her out had unrealistic dreams of swapping the TR-1s in my 210 FSH for some supercharged 1.8L goodness!kept plugging away at the MR-1 HO repower... GONE are those stinky 135 two strokes..
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