In a previous thread I posted about
my mercruise 160 with water in the
oil. I was told to do a pressure test by
applying air pressure to the hose
from water intake hose coming off
the thermostat housing.
So on this test what am I looking for or
listening for.
Going to pull a 160 mercruiser out of a 68 seaswirl. Owner said it has oil in the water. Said that when he was out on the lake noticed the temp gauge getting hot. He shut the engine off and check the oil level; found to be milk shaked. He also reported that it was not winterized after the prior...
So this 76 reinell i just got started has a closed cooling on a mercruiser 140. The boat has been sitting for
years. I recently got the boat to fire up after diagnosing crank no start problem. I put water in the resivior tank and
when the engine fired off, water came out of the exhaust/prop. I...
Newbie here and I'm running into problem on a project boat that I got for free. The engine is a 140 mercruiser serial number
#462913 and the problem is the engine will crank over but has no spark. I checked to see if it was
getting power to the coil and it is ( 11.85 volts ) but there is no...
So I'm looking for a replacment gimbal assembley for my 1968 19' gulfstream. The engine is
a 160 mercruiser (inline six). The pre-alpha gimbal was disassembled and just hang'n there.
So i want to replace it with another pre-alpha. I found one from a similar vintage 140 (inline
four). So my...
Hello all!
I'm a newbie to the boating world and just picked up my first ever boat! It's a 1967 gulfstream
with a merc 160.
My delema is the person I purchased the boat from disassembled the out drive to replace the
hydrolic lines for the rams. he did keep all the parts, but like heck if I...
