Recent content by jdh82831

Little boat is coming along slowly. Had the transom cut open and found the wood to be perfectly formed dust! So instead of replacing the wood, we built an aluminum frame and skinned it with 1/4” aluminum plate and reinforced with 1/2” in the middle. Put the old skin back on and it looks great...

Thanks for all the help. Picked up a pre-made fuel line for a pre-1998 Mercury and the OMC fitting. Gonna try em out.

I need some help please. We just acquired a 1969 Merc 200 - 20hp and two gas tanks and we are needing some help identifying the correct fittings for the engine and gas tank ends of the fuel line.

I am looking for a manual for our (new to us) 1969 Merc 200 20hp. Thanks in advance for your assistance. My email is [email protected]

That's the plan, gather as much info as we can before we cut. We have a couple of family friends who are fabricators and welders that we're trying to get to come look at it. Hopefully they won't see too much difficulty in putting it back together.

Thanks for the thoughts, The knee was through bolted to the transom but is riveted to the hull. We were waiting to remove the rivets just incase we didn't need to. The shelf is a separate piece from the panel and it is riveted to the bottom of the transom. Even if the shelf was removed it is...

My son and I recently acquired the 14' 1971 Ouachita V hull that my father and I fished with when I was a kid. So we have a new project and the first thing to work on is the transom. Ive seen several transom projects where the board is fully or partly exposed but in our case the board is fully...