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Quattrodave

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  1. On 10/02/2025 at 14:58, Alan de Enfield said:

    You can get XL (25") and XXL (30") shafts but the are horrendously expensive and are designed for the monster 500+ hp engines.

     

    If you are planning to steer the outboard(s) 'by tiller' you really need to have the engines and 'pivot point' above the stern of the boat, or you are going to need a complex arrangements of universal joints.

     

    Or, as has been suggested, clamp them onto the existing tiller and maybe remove the actual rudder blade.

     

    Last year I accidentally (just don't ask🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️) purchased a Tohatsu 25HP 4 stroke extra long shaft outboard. Bloody nice emgine BTW...  if you can wait till the weekend I can send you @Dom Hopking measurements and part numbers if you're interested??

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  2. Personally I remove the crappy tails from devices (where available) and replace them with tails and power connectors of the required spec.  I find it makes a much neater, cleaner install.  I will also use tinned cable wherever possible, it is however more expensive but I feel the upgrade is worth it...

     

    Hopefully the OP has calculated the cabes for 'the round trip' not just 'to' the device...

  3. IMHO surveys arnt worth the paper they're written on!! Read the small print, for everything listed there is a 'get of of jail' for the surveyor... If i couldn't see it, not covered; if i didn't see it, not covered; if i got it wrong, not covered, if i just plain forgot, yup you guessed it not covered...

     

    Its all well and good someone saying its a good boat but if there is zero comeback you don’t really know....

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  4. Perfectly feasable to make any diesel heater BSS compliant, safe & reliable, are you planning on diy install? Be aware if its an automotive unit the voltage cut in/out settings are different.

     

    Have a search on the forum, definitely a thread where I listed required parts and links....

  5. 1 hour ago, LadyG said:

    the last guy I had on board  said it would take him an hour to identify what was happening at the moment

     

    I think he underestimated that, I think it would have taken longer, but he was open and honest with you.

     

    1 hour ago, LadyG said:

    me, I just turn off each isolator  (plenty to choose from) in turn to find out what's happening.

     

    Yeah, that'll tell you everyting you need to know won't it... 🤦‍♂️

     

    1 hour ago, LadyG said:

    There is a diagram somewhere but I've never been asked about that.

     

    That's because it will cause more confusion than it solves... Have you added to the diagram any changes you've had done?? Boat electrics are generally ripped up, modified and altered and re-layed so many times over the life of the boat its usually a complete mess.  Finding the cause of a problem can be a nightmare!

     

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    Also you've guages are probably so wildly inaccurate they'll cause more more confusion than they solve, by your own admission you were reading one backwards!!

  6. Oh great, more stuff the EA is trying to away without doing... Just because you call something by a different name, doesn't mean its function has changed...

     

    Getting really fed up with the EA doing less and less and blaming the problems on everyone else...

    I was in Brampton Lock 2 months ago, there were contractors there supposedly doing repairs, they spent the entire time running around like 5 year olds throwing cement balls at each other...

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