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  1. skihacker
    @powbmps, the plastic grates that keep your stuff off the floor of the bilge should have a cut-out at the back to get at the drain, any chance they're backwards or something? Should be able to remove the center seat lower piece and reach straight down to the plug.
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    Wife and I picked up an 18 promo last fall, really love this boat but the fan is kinda loud......especially if you're old....(deaf??). We're in western new york, getting pretty cool and I'm thinking no harm in running without that fan for the rest of the season??
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    I float on or off, I've always had my lift set up so the drive shaft stays behind the rear cross bar. Water is usually pretty low in the fall. I have a pole clamped to the rear of the cradle as a reference point, the water is way too murky to see through. The nav light socket is the reference point on the boat. The narrow setup for the bunks works but I kept hitting the back end of the bunks with the tracking fins.
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    I bought 2 boats out of state, first one from a dealer in MI. They were able to give me a temporary trailer plate........that was valid only in michigan. Second time last fall got a prostar out of KY, evidently you aren't required to register trailers in KY so no temp available. Both trips I got insurance ahead of time and threw my old trailer plate on and drove home.
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    The narrow set up leaves very little room to get the tracking fins through, i just built a set of bunks with a gap for the lifting chines to sit in, 2-2×6 stacked with a gap around 1 foot long in the top board towards the rear. I set the rear width at about 30 inches, so far works better but only been a few days.
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    It's always a deep sigh when you hit the key and it just...........starts. No popping or noises or looonnnng crank.
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    According to the insta slalom site usually 10 feet inside the regular turn buoys
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    The 13 inch tool bags that lowes sells stuffed with wheel weights tip the scale just shy of 50 lbs each.
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    So i still have potential?? Cool!
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    Ok so what is a rolling panda??
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    I'm having trouble getting my 18 prostar into my hoist.......its just really weird putting my head that far to the right side of the cradle. I hope I'm a little better in the course??
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    I always use a "dinghy" boat to do course work with a trolling motor, the speeds are much better suited to dragging the bottom and working your way down a mainline, you wont care if it gets munged or dinged up either.
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    You see @Horton some people catch fish from bodies of water with these gizmos called fishing poles. I hear it can be relaxing.
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    I haven't tried any where near the number of skis as most of you but I would also say the elite, I used to describe it as borderline ornery.
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    Manuals are available on their website,
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    @BraceMaker is right, it's very tough to get a working system going from used stuff, and a lot of it is obsolete and no longer supported, so any future failure's leave you stuck. The Wake Stargazer is $1200 I think? If you don't ski tournaments it's probably good enough and well worth it imho.
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    I use a mighty vac mv7201 fluid evacuator, with a small piece of 5/8 heater hose you can pull the oil from the drain tube. It will empty a warm motor in a minute or so.
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    I would suspect you won't see the carbon issues with ski boats, the higher rpm's will tend to keep them clean.
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    I won't remember the exact explanation but @addkerr is correct, it's due to a slightly newer strategy for the valve timing, it allows a lot more crank case vapors back up into the intake. I see lots of problems with coked up throttle bodies and intake valves. It seems to be especially bad on cars that do lots of short trips.
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    @2Valve I'm frankly surprised to hear you haven't had zebra mussels for years by now. Where is your site? I find kevlar ski gloves very useful for course and dock/hoist work.
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    teak only needs maintenance once every 2 or 3 winters if you coat it with cetol, looks awesome, and if one of your ski partners is a wood shop guy even better
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    This past spring we had a hard time finding the main for one of our courses, ended up dragging the grapple up and down the course instead of side to side and eventually found a pvc arm, worked our way back to the main from that.
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    Looks like same pylon i had in an 04 rlxi
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    220.....221.....whatever it takes!!!!
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    I suspect someone added a non oe tilt assembly and it required "custom" spacers?
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