1987 36 Mariner steering reservoir question

waybomb

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Hi all,

Wife and I just bought a fixer-upper 1987 Mariner. The Hynautic reservoir was taken from the vessel. The Carver manual does not state which reservoir this takes. It looks as if the helm is an H-50. I can not determine if the reservoir was a R-06 or a RV50 or?

Anybody here with a 36 Mariner? Can you look at your reservoir and report the unit number?

FWIW - this is our 3rd Carver. We bought a 1988 Riviera in 1988.

Bought a 1989 42 Aft a number of years later, and sold the Riviera. The 42 was gas powered; not a joy to pilot in weather.

Sold the 42 and bought my offshore boat - 46 Cougar with triple 900hp 572's. It handles weather and waves just fine, thanks. Wife does not like it.

Thus, I keep my Cougar, she gets the 36 Mariner. Needs quite a bit of TLC, but the engines only have 280 hours on them, and look brand new inside with a borescope.

Anybody sell a replacement for the points and condenser system for these 350 Crusaders? I pulled the distributors and installed all new parts and primed the oil systems while I had them out, but I can't imagine changing the parts with that generous 8" of headroom!

Enough rambling!
Thanks for your help on the Hynautic reservoir and a points/condenser electronic solution.
 
I have an 86 mariner 3297. I would think they might be the same reservoir and can check when I get up there this weekend. I know I have the same H50 helm unit as I had it rebuilt 2 years ago due to leaks.

As for the points, we switched to an electronic kit from Sierra Marine parts. I don't know the part number, but I know it was a kit that works with your current coil and resistor, so just a swap out of the points in the distributor. BoatFix may actually sell them too, not sure. My mechanic at the time did the swap, so I don't know the part numbers. I think we have the same engines (Crusader model 270). There are more expensive ways to go with this, but these kits work really well.
 
I bought a 2 qt reservoir, so no need to go check. I'm all set now.
 
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