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Looking at pictures of other 04 Sundecks, looks like the hinge is a piano style. Are the screw holes stripped on the door side or where it screws into the bulkhead? I've had to do a repair on my boat where I filled in the screw holes with epoxy and re-drilled new holes. Actually, Lazy Daze...

I have a 2011, 260 Sundeck where the vinyl is splitting at the piping seam on one of the seats. The split is about 8" long and I was thinking of removing the seat to take to one of the vinyl repair shops near me but am unsure on how to do this. On the sundeck, the aft seat (couch like seating...

Anyone with recommendations on fogging a 350 MAG MPI EC engine? I'm worried about fowling the catalytic converters if I use 2 cycle engine oil in the fuel system. I probably need to just buy the #51 Manual.

Lazy Daze, I've been reading your posts and appreciate your willingness to to share your knowledge with the community. I was planning on winterizing my 260 Sundeck on my own this year and saving the cash for cooler upgrades. My question after reading through the other posts is using the 2oz...

Quick question on the vinyl weave flooring. I removed the old carpet on my Sundeck before the season this year. It was old and worn out. My wife has put new carpet higher on the priority list than the wakeboard tower I was going to install next spring (though I still might be able to slip...

Thanks, Bill! My throttle control doesn't have a trailer button. When I bought the new trim sensor kit it came with a blank off plate to replace the analogue trim sensor on the starboard side. Mercury Marine tech support said that the DTS engines don't use it anyway. I had read somewhere...

Update! The trim guage generally work but when I'm towing and turning a bit at high throttle settings, I get the 5 beeps and the lose the trim indications. When I slow down for a time, the trim indications come back. That's confusing to me. I thought maybe I just need to adjust the sensor...

netbldr, I didn't take the guage out. But it seems accessible through the hell access panel in little cabin just forward of the helm. My current SC1000 tachometer's LCD has no issues. I will swap it out with a MercMonitor (79-8M0135618) that has tow control maybe next spring. Towing some...

I replaced the trim sensor without removing the outdrive. The process is outlined in the attached PDF. It wasn't that bad. Took about 2 hours but that included time learning exactly what I had to do. I think I could do it in about an hour if I had to do it over again. Good luck! Let me...

Update! I was able to get the paddle wheel hooked up and working. I needed to get a new harness, part number 8M0075945. I found the paddle wheel plug on top of the engine near where most of the other wire bundles plug in. It only had one pinkish red wire plugged in to feel the fuel tank info...

I want to share this response from Mercury on this thread incase anyone else has the same questions I did so it's in the official Club Sea Ray record. I had asked Mercury to let me know when the Rev Limiter logic is invoked and if I went to the next pitch up propeller what would the results be...

The boat gets to 5k RPM with the lower unit all the way down at about 43 MPH. With a few shots of up trim, RPM to 5,300 and speed up to 46 MPH. I have to make sure the trim tabs are up. Pulled a tube with three teenage girls and 9 people in the boat no problem. Holeshot seems fine but I've...

What performance changes would I see by upping the pitch? I imagine the acceleration initially would suffer with a higher top end? I suppose mine are the 22.5 pitch and I'd go up to the next highest pitch which would be 24. I'm asking Mercury when the Rev. Limiter kicks in. The shop did say...

I do have a Bravo III. I think 22.4 is stamped somewhere on them but will have to see if I have any pictures of the prop to tell. I believe the props are stock from whatever came with the boat. So what's the standard that came with 2011 Sea Ray 260 Sundecks? I have a 4 bladed that's just...

Hmmm...so there is truth to the Rev limiter? Is 5k the limit? I can easily get over that at WOT with a little trim. Highest I saw was 5,300 RPM. My engine is DTS. Seems like there might be a setting that is messed up if the throttle allows that. My shop said they are talking with Mercury...

The saga continues... I'm on the third week of the shop having my boat while my summer slips away! They said they could get to it the first week. So the got to it late in the second week. They hooked the computer up to the PCM and said that the PCM had logged the engine misfire. In...

Ok...here goes. I replaced a 20 degree transducer/temp sensor with the TRIducer pictured. The old transducer (part 888828A21) was a 20 degree, made to be placed off center on a V-hull. My Sundeck has the transducer right on the keel so no need for the 20 degree. It should be a zero degree...

The triducer was a form/fit replacement for the old transducer. The transducer cable (different than the paddle wheel cable) just plugged into where the old cable went. There was some wire bundle wrangling but everything went together well. I did need to adjust the depth reading on the smart...

Thanks, Skyman! I actually do think the engine is misfiring based on the secondary indications. It doesn't happen all the time but it for sure is. Dropped it off at the shop yesterday. They said they'll get to it next week. Fingers crossed it's something small. I will post what it was for...

Ok...I really do think my engine is misfiring. O2 sensor error and a sulfur sort of smell after coming to idle. I'm perplexed because I get 5,200-5,300 RPM WOT. If I had a cylinder misfiring I can't believe I'd see that. I did notice an odd sort of rattling sound when the RPM is between...