Recent content by Performance42

Buy a few Ultra switches run to two Rules, and forget about it.

That's where my tilt was leaking - from the fitting in the picture. I stopped it with Lucas Power Steering Stop leak, a very high viscosity red fluid. Checked it today - didn't leak. Google it. Lucas sells it in 55 gallon drums and $8 bottles. Farmers buy it for their old tractors and keep...

That Lucas Power Steering stop leak has so far kept any fluid escape from my tilt motor. Hard to believe, I know. Previous to adding the LSL, the tilt leaked some red oily drops every time I went to the boat and hit the tilt switch (up/down). I added the Lucas on December 23rd. The leak...

Dennis: Agree with all you write; But, it's a little different with a 42foot Performance. The boat has to be driven to the Marina and hauled. Cost just for Marina here in Bahamas is $550. We fixed all the "ram piston" seals (three per tilt on a F225), and the engine has to be loosened to take...

FISHTALE... You were right. It started leaking again after working the tilt motor, but just a slight leak. I have 3/4 of a bottle of LUCAS PS ST left, and will try and locate the leak with my mask tomorrow. It's not leaking from any of the (3) ram seals. this Lucas can slow this leak down to...

Lucas Power Steering Stop leak - stopped a bad leak in my 2005 F225 hydraulic tilt UPDATE: December 23 Added Lucas POWER STEARING stop leak to port tilt. I used the Very thick and red Lucas PS SL Next day still leaking Dec 28 Friday Tilt did not leak today. Went into water with mask and...

I have an oil leak / dripping onto my transom when I tilt my F225 all the way up. I think I may have caused the issue by adding oil, when the engine didn't need more. Anyone run into this problem with a Yamaha F225 or F250 (2002 thru 2100 model year)? It's not a lot of oil on the transom, and...

I have two ULTA switches, if I didn't say that already. They never, ever fail. They never ever stick open - either. Think about that! Just watch for the hot wire when it breaks one day. That's why there are 2 500 gph Rule bilge pumps down there in my bilge. AD.. It's never absolutely dry in...

ANDY: I would not bank on insurance money covering this. Insurance companies are worthless IMO. I insured my house once after it was built, and when two big hurricanes went past taking off some shingles before I had learned to Acrylic latex them down with white Acrylic latex paint, the insurance...

ANDY in Australia: A friend had a 37 foot Midnight Express about 15 years old, and was taking it to Florida for a new fuel tank. That's a 180 mile run. In the Gulf, the F tank broke loose spilling gasoline everywhere and they were knee deep in gas and water for at least 50 miles in heavy seas...

I don't believe any of the big manufacturers build a AL tank thicker than 1/4 inch. The person that built my Performance42 said they are all 1/4 inch. READ THIS LINK: "In the marine industry we usually use 1/8" 5052 to build the fuel cells."...

When I got to this post in the discussion about it being the forward tank that failed, I knew it was, IMO, from the pounding of the sea being much more severe up aft than in the rear of the boat. IMO, it is Marlin's fault for putting a gas tank up in front of the CC (if I'm correct in assuming...

it's not hydraulic fluid. It's engine oil. Haven't figured it out yet, but neither has my mokanic, and he's taken 100 PHs off boats like mine. Funny thing, years ago I was drift fishing a navy AUTEC buoy 30 miles offshore (alone), and I noticed a sheen on the water and thought it was gas. Then...

I noticed oil on transom when tilted up overnight on my F225. I had added a quart of oil a week earlier because it showed oil on the tip of the dip stick now it's in the middle of the hash marks on the dip stick Could the oil I added have caused the oil leaking onto transom?