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    4.0 HO V6 seems a little hard to start

    Not sure if I am not pumping the throttle enough to start when cold, didnt want to flood it, but it seems to take a little longer to start than it should, put in new plugs, my friends altho not a 4.o merc starts with a touch of the key, I replaced the plugs, it has good gas and runs perfect...
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    Mercruiser alpha 1 lube grease fittings

    94 alpha 1, There are 3 grease zerts on my out drive, one on each side for the tilt hinge and there is 1 on the right close to the back where it bolts to the boat, what does that grease, the gimble?, I grease it but do not know what it is greasing as I do not see grease coming out anywhere like...
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    adding 2nd battery for stereo

    I want to add another battery to dedicate the stereo to it, In the past I had a drain problen, so I put in a battery shutoff on the main battery, ad I have to run the stereo batt+ wire directly to battery so it wont loose memory, my friend said put in 2nd battery, run the neg to eng block and...
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