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    Reverse lock adjustment on a 61 800 FGS

    Ok I have had this problem just crop up, now I should just do some research and check out if there is an adjustment for this..... however I will just ask instead. I adjusted the motors trim setting by moving up the pin one hole on the transom mount (bottom hole to next hole up) and now a couple...
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    Old inline 6 ignition wireing question

    Ok I have a 1961 800 FGS. trouble is the ignition switch. Now the old one is toast, I can get a new one, yet the replacements are only three terminal's not four. The red output rectifier wire is to be hooked up directly to the battery, and then the B wire (white on my harness) is put on the...
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    I am pretty dumb some days

    Ok, now here's the idiot of the day post. I have a 1961 800 FGS mercury motor. Now I took the top cowl cover off as is sometimes required, in order to work on it. Guess what, I lost the four nuts for the cover, I also left the cover at the cottage. Now can some kind folk on the boards tell me...
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    Setting up timing marks on an 80hp fgs

    I have a 1961 80 hp FGS that I aquired last fall. The motor is in good shape, but has not run in 35 years. I read clams link and sinc post. My problem is, the flywheel has no marks on it, except the vertical line, used to set the timing belt up. I have made up a degree wheel, and I proposed to...
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