A friend of mine has a 1992 Crestliner Sportfish with a Volvo-Penta I/O. He brought it into the big Crestliner dealer in town for winterization. The dealer said that the plugs were rather gummed up and they were actually surprised the boat ran. My friend has had problems this summer with hestitation and rough running. The dealer suspected bad gas and recommended that the tank be emptied of the remaining 5-6 gallons of gas. The dealers wants $118/hr and estimates it is a 3 hour job. My friend said no thanks and has decided to do the siphoning himself.
He bought a manual siphoning kit and 10 feet of hose. He has tried siphoning the gas through the fill hole and hasn't had any luck. Does anybody have any recommendation on how to empty the tank on a Crestliner like this? The gas tank in under the floor of the boat with limited access.
Wasn't terrible at a state park beach. Antelope island maybe. I wouldn't recommend it as a beach destination tho. Figured I was there, I'm getting in it.
The water looked and smelled disgusting with hundreds of thousands of birds sh*tting in there. About as gross as the Salton Sea. When I duck hunted there I didn't even want to touch the water.
It's kinda gross with the algae in the summer but I got in it anyway. Wanted to see the increased bouyancy at work. You can kinda tuck yourself into a ball and you'll just float with your head above water. When dry off you look diamond encrusted with the salt.
We went to the flats too. I dipped a tire on the rental car onto it just to say I’ve been there,but it was still pretty soft from winter melt. After seeing some moron in a BMW suv get dragged out of the muck I had no intention of repeating his stupidity.
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A friend of mine has a 1992 Crestliner Sportfish with a Volvo-Penta I/O. He brought it into the big Crestliner dealer in town for winterization. The dealer said that the plugs were rather gummed up and they were actually surprised the boat ran. My friend has had problems this summer with hestitation and rough running. The dealer suspected bad gas and recommended that the tank be emptied of the remaining 5-6 gallons of gas. The dealers wants $118/hr and estimates it is a 3 hour job. My friend said no thanks and has decided to do the siphoning himself.
He bought a manual siphoning kit and 10 feet of hose. He has tried siphoning the gas through the fill hole and hasn't had any luck. Does anybody have any recommendation on how to empty the tank on a Crestliner like this? The gas tank in under the floor of the boat with limited access.
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