Thes pictures may help from when i did mine.
I had very poor compression but was lucky there was enough metal left that i had bored out to a bigger size piston (.030) and replaced the pistons and rings
New pistons and rings:
Im going to be replacing the head gasket on my engine (mercruiser 165 4 cyl).
Ive read nothing but the fact that these engines tear up head gaskets, and so I am wondering if anyone has ever found a metal skeleton based head gasket for it to help with the gaskets blowing up?
Engine is cooling...
I bought this engine about a month ago second hand and it would run great,warm up until i put load on it, then it would eventually stall out and not start again until waiting a while. Its a manual pull and has no battery. The impeller seemed to be working fine for cooling and the engine never...
