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    speedo pulling water-accurate?

    my boat has an old airguide speedometer-the pinot (probably the wrong spelling...the sending unit part in the back that converts water force to air pressure) needs replaced as it is bringing some water up as well as air to the guage. will replace ASAP but I am curious if this happening will...
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    wax=faster?

    I was once told waxing the bottom of a boat would give a gain of a few MPH-is this true?
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    dosent like champions?

    I have a reoccuring problem of my 62 28 johnson not firing on relativly new plugs.pulled a wire at a time and found it only running on top cyl-switched plugs and only running on lower cyl.put in old autolites it had when I bought it and it runs good.this time I am blaming it on the de carb I...
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    fogged nieghborhood

    some may have read about my '62 28 sea horse that does not seem to be revving out to proper rpm at wide open.I am still trying to get my hands on a tach,or even compression guage to further the quest.in the meantime I remembered the guy I bought it from saying the boat had been passed around...
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    I need a tach-

    I am in need of a tach in a bad way that will work on a twin cyl 2 stroke outboard-one on the dash would be great but for now I just need to know how fast my motor is spinning for troubleshooting-anyone have suggestions for reading RPMs on the cheap,or maybe could send a private mssage if you...
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    Blue Star

    Mine is a '60 16' runabout-very little info on them on the internet-wondering if anyone here has one?
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    missing spring in fuel pump?

    Gentlemen,I am agian in need of help.I bought a fuel pump kit for my 1962 28HP sea horse.upon taking apart the fuel pump,I found it had been assembled way differant from what my clymer manual shows-I found a spring and cup placed over the check valve furthest away from the air vent,and a cup...
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    adjust or pull carb now?

    '62 28 horse johnson- I've rebuilt the carb,and adjusted low speed needle to Joe Reeves method in a tank,have high speed 1 1/2 out.I have been troubleshooting what seems pretty lame wide open preformance.today I had my Daughter squeeze the primer to see if perhaps the fuel pump wasent keeping up...
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    28 to 40+?

    I have a '62 28 horse Johnson-as written in other threads,I've recently got it ressurected and may or may not be at it's potential for powering my boat-if this is all it's got,I'd like to go with more power.In the back of my mind is a winter project of putting a bigger powerhead on or replacing...
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    cutting prop down

    Hello -I have a 1960 16' alumn V that I would describe as on the heavy side for this type-'62 28 horse Johnson motor.the motor seems to be running well but dosent seem to rev out as I expected-seems like timing isnt advanced(though it seems to be at spec in checking synch)-kind of flat. so,being...
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    trolling motor cables

    My alumn v bottom has a factory front deck from which I removed a swivel seat-the problem I now have is that the foot control for the trolling motor wont reach were I will now be fishing from.I cant find a way to re mount the trolling motor further back,and have decided the ideal option would be...
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    clock

    I have a 1960 Blue Star 16' alumn. v bottom-the dash has a speedo and fuel guage and a hole were a clock used to be-(I found a badly crumpled up clock face and needles behind it)-I'd like to 1-smack whoever tore out and destoyed the clock,and 2-replace it....seems by memory to be about 2...
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    super?

    I've been looking at old brochure pages of early '60's Johnsons-my year,'62-lists the 28 as simply a sea horse-a year or two later they are listed as "super" sea horse....what made the later ones "super"? an ad writer or actual change to design?
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    28 Johnson

    I had written about ignition problems in a thread titled "lost"-the problem there has been resolved but I still need help in a bad way- I have a '62 28 HP Johnson-I have rebuilt carb,synched the timing to linkage,put on new points,condensors,and coils.new plugs.everything gapped /set to...
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    lost-'62 johnson

    Hello all-I bought a '62 28 horse johnson and have come to the conclusion that I'm fixing everything but it's real problem and I need suggestions.I bought this a couple months ago not running and have done a carb kit,cleaned and gapped points,synched the carb and advance plate,checked fuel flow...
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