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    Mercury gauge shows hot- but no other symptoms.

    We rarely use our 1995 Mercury 150HP 2.0 Black Max. We have owned the boat about 5 years and probably put less than 2 hours a year on the boat. The motor is original to the boat and only used in lake water. Yesterday Paw noticed that the gauge showed the engine was running hot. This may have...
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    How to find oil leak in mercruiser 3.0?

    We have a mercruiser 3.0 that has an oil leak. A few weeks ago and we just used it for the first time since last year and it was dry. We filled it with oil that day and this weekend the dip stick wouldnt register. Paw said it is leaking all the way down in the oil pan. Maybe a bad gasket or...
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    Winterizing Jet ski in Alabama .....anti-freeze

    Couple of questions based on some Youtube videos I just watched about winterizing your jet ski (1) you don't need anti-freeze? according to several videos if you run the engine for 30 seconds, let it rest, and repeat 3 times? (2) you don't use marine or rv anti-freeze .....you just dilute...
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    How cold before you winterize? (add antifreeze)

    We usually wait and winterize our motor when we see we are going to have two or three nights of temps in the upper 20s. Here in Alabama we normally don't reach those temps to mid November. But I have recently heard that a guy in Nashville said that it is safe to wait to add anti-freeze...
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    How cold before you winterize? (add antifreeze)

    We usually wait and winterize our motor when we see we are going to have two or three nights of temps in the upper 20s. Here in Alabama we normally don't reach those temps to mid November. But I have recently heard that a guy in Nashville said that it is safe to wait to winterize your...
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    mercruiser 3.0 IO OB will not start after de-winterizing

    We bought a pontoon boat in Dec 2012. It didn't exactly crank fine. (you kinda had to move the handle back and forth few times to get it to start.... and then it would not idle. Once you throttled up it would run fine. We took it for a ride in Dec. Then with the winter setting in we...
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