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RESTO 1998 SeaDoo Challenger 1800 Restoration Project

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Sweet, but what a friggin' let down. Not one pic of the goods??? I see metal all day long at work. Now I see metal on Guest_Users thread. Pics of the desert, tired of the meat and potatoes! Pics of the seats or this thread is useless! Lol.

And I love the craftsman steel square with the rust hairs under the clear. I had the same one and it made a great one way boomerang.


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I know the seats are back a few pages, but I want to see the real life pics from PRP, not iboats.

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Lol. Pull your skirt up Mary. 40, lol. I keep my house at 66-67 and drop to 62 over night. It's gotta be warm if my kids run around with no shirts or socks on.

Heat pump, no way. I'll stick to my oil fired boiler with hot water baseboard heat. I burn just over 1.25 gallon of oil per day averaged over 365 days since my heater makes my hot water too.


Any who, those seats look good and can't wait to see one mounted up. Thank for the pics brother! Go PRP!

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Lol. Pull your skirt up Mary. 40, lol. I keep my house at 66-67 and drop to 62 over night. It's gotta be warm if my kids run around with no shirts or socks on.
Heat pump, no way. I'll stick to my oil fired boiler with hot water baseboard heat. I burn just over 1.25 gallon of oil per day averaged over 365 days since my heater makes my hot water too.
Any who, those seats look good and can't wait to see one mounted up. Thank for the pics brother! Go PRP!
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66-67 is not warm. :)
 
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my favorite is hot water base board, oil fired.

and we had another place that was in Historic distric that had radiators, oil fired furnace... it was awesome!!!

these heat pumps are crap, no wonder the podunks here are , well, you know...:facepalm::rofl:


the best part is when the heat strips come one, you can see the meter flipping out like you had a welder hooked up...

I just don`t understand the bass akwards way they think around here...

not far south enough to not have heat, so why not have a good heating system... this heat pump is garbage...
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Cheap and easy. The amount of days we're below 40* is pretty limited. This is an insanely cold year. I think last year over the winter it got down to mid 30's only a handful of times.
 
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Agreed, the average temps here are okay for most heat pumps. I did see my system turn on the AUX heating strips, but only once (then again, I wasn't constantly hovering over it). My house has been cozy during this cold snap, but it is a new home and very well insulated. I also insisted on a more efficient outside unit (15 SEER) when it was built. Yesterday the high was 25, Saturday we'll be back in the 70's. That's NC for ya :willy_nilly:
 
Sweet, seat frames look nice! As far as Lowes, they're phasing out the "bins" all their stainless now hangs on pegs in clear plastic containers and they have a superb selection. I order online if we don't have it at the shop(9-10 we do have what I need). I know in the last 12 months they have revamped both my Lowes hardware departments and I would figure down by you on the Bayou you would have a great selection. It's not the little white and black Hillman baggies anymore.
 
Dude this weekend is gonna be mid 70's!! Hope to be Able to get my s2000 washed and then back in the garage and covered. Been waiting to wash it before covering it. I'm quite mobile now after the surgery.
 
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Glad to hear you are feeling better!:thumbsup:

no such luck here, been raining, windy, the shop gets soaked with humidity if I open the overhead door... sheesh, when is the weather going to get nice???
The heat pump here is the original unit and been told it`s not likely to be the right size for the sq. ft of this place. I also know as the HP`s age they become less and less efficient regardless of how they are maintained... The time is coming to move on from here tho...

anyways, both seat adapters are made up. I gave the seat a bit of a reclined position as these replacements are pretty much straight up...
When the hardware arrives next week, I`ll finish them and then install the seats... yay!:cheers:
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Yeah we had some nasty weather here today too. Had some big trees get blown down. It'll get nice about March.
 
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