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Hi we have a John Deere 4045 engine in our boat and is setup to route the engine coolant through an external water heater that has a heat exchanger. Our existing water heater died this week and I put a replacement one in. The problem I ran into is that the replacement water heater has a heat...

Hi folks, Our boat currently has two John Deere 4045 145hp engines. Currently the system is setup that the engines start off the house bank directly which is a bunch of 6V AGM. Well it's time for the original house bank to be replaced and I want to switch to individual start batteries for the...

Hello peeps, Happy memorial day. Looking for advice on a JD 4045 engine that started having problems over the winter. Dual engine setup on our boat with engines at 430 hours. When returning from the yard this April our Starboard engine died while coming into the dock and would not...

Well our original city water inlet had an internal component fail on me. I went to look for a like for like replacement and cannot find one. The original had a stainless steel mounting plate as seen in the picture. The replacement I found from Jabsco or Shurflo is a cheap plastic mounting plate...

Hi Folks, A big project next year is to replace our bimini top with a fiberglass hardtop. We are looking for fiberglass top as we plan on putting 200+ lbs of solar panels up there. Anyone have a good experience with a yard in the Pacific North West? Cheers

Well another week another project to look at. So this is our second fuel filter change on our John Deere 4045 engines on our boat. Everything was pretty easy. Changed the secondary fuel filters on our Racors, changed the water filter and primary filter on our JD. The issue came when trying to...

Having an issue with our two VHF radios. We have two standard horizon GX6000 radios. When we transmit on some channels on one radio we will clicks or interference on the other. The weird part is that it only happens on certain channel combinations and not others. The two VHF antennas are...

Well getting around to servicing our Maxwell RC12 windlass for the first time. It's about 4 years old but, has seen little to any use. I did the service on the caspain and chain wheel per a great youtube video by Maxwell. That part went fairly easily. Our manual mentions servicing the lower...

Hey folks, I thought I would check to see if anyone has put in a Maretron J2k100 J1939 to NEMA2k gateway on a John Deere 4050 engine? This is my next project and besides the below link I found a reference that the engine itself may have a port available that is used for mechanics to pull data...

Hi folks, I have a 2016 Westerbeke 10kW BTDA diesel generator on our boat that failed to start last weekend. It has less than a 100 hours on it and we are the single owners. Up until now it has never had starting issues. I started the troubleshooting process consulting Nigel Calder's diesel...

Checking to see if anyone is using the Standard Horizon wireless remote handheld radio (SSM-71H). It pairs up with your main radio with the SCU-30 WiFi antennae and uses the main radio VHF antennae. We had it installed in our setup on our boat but, the wireless handheld has never worked well...