inboard to outboard

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Ex: Your in south Jersey? The NJ crew is going to try and have a boat gathering this summer, stay tuned. Keep that Potter built in its original IB set-up! I have experienced a blown starter on a new engine, ran the battery's down by accident and had a lot of water. The engine does sit low, but I have "top" mount starter on my 454 and try to lube it often, I run two bilge pumps; forward and aft, and my boat has drain tubes thru the transom, not thru the deck, and I use the ping-pong ball scupper caps and it keeps the water out and it makes the deck somewhat self bailing. The water I get is usually due to my own oversight, such as leaving the radio on and draining the batteries, otherwise its pretty dry. Try the modification to the drain tubes, it does help. I can't speak to the IO set up as they seem to have a lot more moisture intrusion anyway due to the outdrive unit.