Elijah I have a bunch of the stock seacraft cleats marinum. You are more that welcome to them..

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Thanks Josh, I had those too, but I'll get something a little newer. Thanks though.

Got a new power plant yesterday. 2001 115 yami with 400 hours to replace my 23 year old merc. Got it for a good price from a guy in Maine. I just got it mounted yesterday and hope to have it operational by mon or tue. Lower unit needs some cleaning but new t stats and water pump have been installed. A lot better technology from my 1990 merc. Where do you guys mount the external oil tank? I thought it would fit in the old batter comp. in the starboard seat, but it is a little to big.

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There is plenty of room in the bilge under the splash well for the oil tank if you're willing to put a water tight access hatch there. I also have a Racor filter and the trim tab pump under there. I cut out the splash well and installed a hinged lid over it when I installed the bracket, but you can see the edges of the old splash well in the attached pic. My boat has the live well under the port seat.

Thanks BW. I thought about that. I really want it to fit where the old battery was, so I may make some modifications to it so it fits just right.

Chance is the option of having one made out of aluminum a viable option? A small tank like that mightn't be to costly.

So I've been sanding and sanding and went from this:

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To this, which is only 2 coats of interlux epoxy primekote. I still have one more primer coat and than two color coats of perfectin in Snow White.

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Then I've got to do the same thing on the inside. Gotta get on the water soon...

All done with the bottom finally. Now to move my efforts to the inside...

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looks good capt. looks like new. where are you storing it now?

On Otis, we live on base now.