In 7 days gator season opens and a lot of fishing and frogging! I don’t hunt Deer or hogs here in Florida too many idiots and rules.

I’m sure sliding gator or Kwan will chime in, also hit the search function on the site or just type in your questions in google like “gso480 Running temp southern airboat” “ gso480 oil temp or pressure southern airboat” you’ll get more information than you’ll want to read in one sitting. There’s a l...

Pm me I’ll shoot you an overlay from 44 ramp to hotdog island

Stock, is a fool’s errand. The LS platform isn’t able to sustain the thrust pressure from prop force. You are going to destroy your 6.0L especially if this is a engine you are planning to run later with a gear box. Dave (Waterthunder) had a DD LS some years back he had to develop a proprietary thrus...

No I didn’t know, thanks for the info. I didn’t suspect you to be stuck there. I was stating in general wet sand sucks! loaded like that your going to struggle a tad till she’s beaks lose.

Your asking a lot that boats huge and honestly I wouldn’t rev that LSA any higher than than you have too. Wet sand sucks you down and can be difficult to break lose. If it’s new call Faron at air ranger and he’ll give you a no bs answer

Call water thunder, that’s a big boat. Dave has developed an LS engine package that’s purpose built for tour boats. I know the old formula and suggested bbc vs LS On a large boat, however how many tour boats are under 15’ ??? doubt enough to build a purpose driven platform.

55 mph, 16x8 Diamondback, 6.0L PCM/Levitator, 80” 3 blade Sensench K series. @5750ish max rpm.

It’s not difficult to see the issue with it. You want to run one go for it just stay the hell away from others. Get a 1/8” wire wrapped around that prop from striking an object or a weld breaking from cyclic fatigue and see that happens. I can promise you it will be much worst than if hit cage just ...

It would be safer to run a cage with no wire at all than to run one with just horizontal wire.

This is the zinc epoxy primer and activator, it’s quite expensive as it was close to $75 per gal and 15 for the little bottle of activator. I originally planed on painting the entire boat old school BDU like sniper’s old camo boat but couldn’t get the colors at the time. I Also planed on using Rapto...

Thanks Sliding gator, I recon I should have read receipt better, the epoxy primer on there is this a zinc based? I have a zinc based primer to do the inside of my DB prior to using Dominator in silver/gray, but need new hull jacks installed and rigging pulled to do it right. I used it on my step rai...

That’s enough paint to do the rigging and then some, but 1/2 gallon each is a bit on the skinny side and not much less on price. The primer actually goes further than the urethane. Like I said, if you want to save money, get the epoxy primer and then hit HD or Wally World for 2 Quarts of Rust Oleum...

Personally I never run my boat on All unless I have used both batteries. I alternate between 1-2 between shut downs as to always have a fully charged cranking battery to get me home or to jump another’s boat/truck. Or I run on one battery one day and switch to 2 the next.

NaPA belts are made by gates and the Napa Gold are the green belts as well

Take the belt to NAPA they have belts and there maybe $30-40 bucks not $100 PCM parts are a freakin rip off. You can buy a replacement R066037 just about anywhere online but your looking at $90 or more bucks just because it’s PCM I run a PCM/levatator N/A and buy all my replacement parts from anywhe...

I have a crappy lowrance mounted on airboat for new areas and planning in the field, pretty dang durable but have replaced it once since 09’ as it quit finding satellites. I keep a Garmin rhino and a fortrex on me at all time as well both have been through hell but always work, but they both have sc...

Garmin states the 742xs has a IPX 7 rating that does not mean waterproof. It’s water resistant to 3’ for up to 30 minutes. 12’ of water is quite a difference in pressure. Per Garmin it specifically states “ splashes, rain, snow an incidental exposure Up to 1 meter at 30 minutes max. NOT being submer...

Where on hatch were you frogging for 7 hrs for a 2 dozen?? You can PM if you want. I don’t frog a ton but I always hit hatch/cypress, dead river and reedy creek. Usually get around 60-80 frogs > 2-3hrs tops. Frogs are high in population this year for sure. Was talking with a well respected buddy he ...

That looks like Brahma island, if so it’s private property and the methods the Lightsy brothers use are 100% legal.

I’ve seen two completely aluminum rigged boats and Quite a few others with SS seat platforms and engine stands usually powder coated with all aluminum cages. Your biggest issue is the cyclic fatigue of aluminum. If you are to use aluminum tube (round or square) for the engine stand it will have to b...

SARS is a form of coronavirus Wuhan Institute of Virology is a level 4 facility where they handle,use and whatever the f%}k else they do with the shit. Would make more sense to shut it down as this is the second serious virus that made its way from there. And we are to now believe that this form of ...

“Swamp Matt” was the guy airboat maps dot com or something like it. Ain’t heard nothing outa him in quite some time. Not sure ole boy is still doing the map thing.

Diamondback and Gto I know for sure stock the regular belts and also carry the heavy duty Blackhawk belts which are the $400 ones

I’d say the imagination is the limits on what to
Plug it with. Holley makes a plug kit for vacuum ports as do many others. Whatever you use make sure it’s good quality and 100% sealed. Getting a stumble and chasing a vacuum leak swearing it’s another issue will become bothersome !