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  1. insaneasylm

    Steering wheel hub

    Ok I have a 2018 Lund pontoon. The steering wheel hub is plastic and it went out on me last week. I ordered a new hub thinking that they are pretty standard because everywhere I looked they were all the same. Any way I got my new aluminum hub and it is 3/8” taller, 1 7/8 compared to 2 1/8. Also...
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    Deciding on a new toon.

    i trying to decide on what aft fish toon I should get. The boat will spend most of its life on a private 650 ac lake with some trips to the Mississippi. Tubing, kneeboarding and the such also...
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    Wot rpm's low

    hey guys i have a 99' 1950 bayliner capri with a 3.0l merc in it. I have had this problem for some time now and i cann't figure it out. Here is the back story though. I pulled the engine last summer because i thought i had a busted exhaust tube witch ened up only being loose. So i put the motor...
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    engine lugging at all rpms off and on

    hey guy my 3.0 merc alpha 1 gen 2 started lugging and sounding real funny at all rpms. I had the engine out a few weeks ago and every thing went back in fine also replaced all the bellows. So on to the whole story. I took the boat out twice after doing all the work to it. The boat ran great...
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    gear oil res moves

    well i got the boat out today. It ran like a champ from idel all the way through wot. So all the work i did kepted out the water. If i can do it anyone can woohoo. Ok anyway i noticed when i got to the ramp the gear oil was down to the fill line on the res bottle. I filled it up yesterday...
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    drive shaft and prop spins???

    Well i'm putting the outdrive back on and i went to spin the drive shaft alittle to line back up the splines and i could spin it all the way around. Last time i had it off i know it didn't do this. It would stop at some point. When i was taking the outdrive off this last time i notice i...
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    u-joint,exhaust tube, water hose new

    ok i got my parts in now and i'm starting to reassembel every thing. I got the gimble bearing back in no porblem there. now i need to start on the bellows and hoses. The manuel isn't real clear on the order to do all this. 1. attach new water hose to bell houseing first. 2. attach u-joint...
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    grease zerks u-joints ??? pics added

    Well i got some of my tools in today. I got my engine alignment shaft, bearing installer head, and bellow sleeve installer head. Tomorrow i should have my transom serivce kit, i hope. Well any way i was going to start greasing every thing on the boat. I wanted to squeez some new grease into the...
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    sx smart tabs vs smart tabs

    ok i searched this but couldn't really find any thing that listed the diffrences between the two. Is it just the price and the mats they are made from or does one work better than the other just curious before i get some. My boat is at the bottom. I just want to get a pair to help calm the wife...
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    3.0 back in

    Well i droped my merc 3.0 back in my bayliner today. Out drive still off thought. Not to bad really had a couple of scares. I got it all hooked up and put the battery back in turned the key and had lights so i thought i was good. I wanted to check to see if it would still start so i duck taped...
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    broke a part on the gear oil line

    ok when i was taking off the bell houseing i broke a part on the gear oil line. took the part off went to the boat place and had them look it up. They said they didn't have the part. and gave me the part # 18920a1. So i come home and look it up. Its the wrong part. They were looking at the...
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    bilge, tach, volt not working

    hey guys my bilge, tach, volt are not working. I have the engine out right now so my testing is limited. first the bilge, I took out the bilge pump and hooked it straight to the battery and it works. I then tested the switch with ohm meter fliped it back and forth got a reading of .3 so that...
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    car engine swap out

    i was just wondering how many people have done this. Is it hard or even advised. Just curious because my buddy across the street has a crappy has a 96 chevy van with a 350 he said he would give me if i wanted to put it in my boat. He is the guy i got the cherry picker from and he helped me pull...
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    pulled lags form motor mount

    hey guys i pull my engine out today and i screwed up. I pulled the lags that hold the a-frame motor mount to the floor. Its the bow side motor mount. What should i do about this. Do i need to fill the holes with fiber glass and rescrew new holes. Because i don't think that putting the lags back...
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    Lower Exhaust Assy

    Can some one tell me what may have cause the lower exhaust assy to become loose or broken. I just cann't see it breaking on its own. I can wiggle it about 1/4 inch back and forth may be less. I hope to know more tomorrow. If the weather is nice i'm going to pull the engine. Also i need to find...
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    clanking shifting into gear f/r

    Hey guys got it all back together. Man that book is not real clear when it come to ajusting the shift cable. Any way when i shift it into gear i get a loud clanking sound. It happens when going in to forward or reverse gear. I'm just doing this in my driveway. Is this happening because there is...
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    cann't get outdrive back on

    i haveing troubles putting the out drive back on. Not going to beable to get the parts i need for a couple of weeks so i just want to but it back together so i don't lose any parts. I have the shaft slide back through the gimbal. But i don't know if the splines are lineing up. I get it most of...
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    what's diffrent in these kits

    i don't see the diffrence in these kit's but the part # can some tell me what i'm missing http://bpi.ebasicpower.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=eBasicPower&Product_Code=MAL9-72900&Category_Code=MER2D...
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    water coming in- transom more pics added

    hey guys i have a 98 bayliner capri with a 3.0 merc. I have water coming through the transom. Last year i had water coming in but i could never tell where it was coming from. Now this year i just droped it in the water and i could here it pouring in. The water is coming in right in the middle of...
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    wot rpms 5.7l omc????

    going to go look at a 23ft boat with this engine and trying to find out what rpm's i should be looking for and also the what the avg. temp, oil psi and, and charge should be so i know if anything is out of wack. the marina that has the boat said they did a comp check and it was good and also put...
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