Required Upgrades

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Easy Rider
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Required Upgrades

The Catalina34.org page has a list of required upgrades.  Is there anything similar in the Catalina36.org site?  I'm particularly interested in Required Upgrades.

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Chris Wolcott
new to Easy Rider, 1995 Catalina 36 Mk II.

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There's only two notices that I can recall for the C36. One was to check the steering cable pulleys for possible cracks in the pulley mounting castings and the other was to check the M35 Engines for the addition of a sleeve for the water pump shafts to reduce the chance of camshaft failure. 

There are many improvement/upgrade  suggestions from owners on the site and I think someone published a book capturing upgrade ideas.
 

Paul & Wendy Keyser
"First Light"
Rye NH
2005 C36 MKII #2257
Wing, M35B

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If your boat has an Amp gauge (instead of a Volt gauge) then it's highly recommended that you get rid of the Amp meter.  Mine is an '84 and had the Amp gauge.  The problem is that the wire run for the gauge is very long and as the wire ages the resistance goes up and it becomes a fire hazard over time.  It's a fairly easy mod to replace the Amp meter with a Volt meter and disconnect the wire that was being used for the Amp meter.

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