Jmcdonald

I have a 86 Stratos 375-V with a 75 115 Johnson. The problem I'm having is it is almost impossible to turn the wheel right or left. It will turn but I need to eat my spinach before I head to the lake. I had it at the lake and it just completely dangerous to drive! My friend and I looked at the cable and it seems to be way to long for the boat. It curves on top of the gas tank and then curves back to where it runs to the steering wheel. What is the best way to fix this? New cable? (where can I buy one?) Run it a different way? I'm just stumped..... Thanks for the help in advance! Joe

I bought a floating charger (2 for both mt batts) on ebay for $8 each and they seem to be working fine. I'm really happy with them. Edit... sorry I didnt see the on-board charger part of your post.

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Just shake the bottle up. It will be OK. I had a bottle freeze this winter also. I'm not sure if shaking the bottle helped but it seemed fine when I used it.

Just run your TM on one batt. Hook everything else up to the cranking batt.

I got the boat from my father-in-law and the boat has sat for 7 years in the weather.(He didn't keep it covered) I was really lucky all the floors are solid with no weak spots. My son and I spent 3 days just cleaning the leaves and pine needles out of the boat. Its a really sharp looking boat once we got it cleaned up. (1987 Stratos 375-v with a 1975 Johnson 115) The boat still needs some wiring work but everything seems to work OK. I was just disappointed that I had just spent $600 to get the motor running right and we took it out and it ran like crap! I don't plan on doing any tourney fishing. I just want to take my boy (hes 8) fishing. He really wanted to go with us Saturday and it was really hard seeing him crying when i driving down the driveway. It was a good thing he didn't go this time. It was funny when I got home and told him about the bad day. He said "I think we should buy a new bass boat" I agreed with him but my wife didn't like that idea.... I sure things will get better when we get all the bugs worked out. Joe

WOW what a horrible day!! I took the boat to the shop last week to have the carbs cleaned out and it tuned up. Well we headed out yesterday morning. First we hit a dog on the way there..... killed it. Then we get to the water and launch and the motor wont start. We took the boat back to the shop I had it fixed at and he gets it to start right up. We didn't have it trimmed down all the way. (the trim is having problems) We took it back to the lake and it started right up. We drove down about 1 mile and the trim and the throttle is messing up really bad. We couldn't get it on plane due to these issues. A little voice in my head was saying turn around and call it a day but we didn't. We start fishing and I get hung up in some brush so I troll over and get the boat stuck in the brush. We tried to start the motor and it wont start. Both our our tempers are high and my friend and I just blow up on each other..... We calm down and finally after an hour later and two batteries later we get the motor started we head back to the ramp and load the boat and head to the house. The boat goes back to the shop on Saturday and hopefully he can get it running right... I hope all of you that went out this past weekend had a better time than us! ;D

I have a 86 Stratos bass boat. I bought the boat used and the PO pulled some of the gauges out of the gauge cluster. The POs had passed away and his wife sold me the boat. Does anyone own the same boat and if so could you please take a picture of what gauges you have so i can buy them? Im wanting to restore this boat back to factory condition and ive hit this speed bump. Thanks, Joe