Don,
First welcome to Washington. I am a couple of hours form Ocean Shores.
Now my question. I have a 1979 SeaRay with the 305 GM/Mercruiser 228 engine. I bought the boat from a friend who had not run the boat since 1998. I have go through everything and put the boat in the water yesterday...
I bought a boat and trailer a while back and I have been getting it ready to put in the water. I wanted to make sure trailer brakes were ok so I removed the hubs and went through the brakes. One spindle nut was very hard to turn off and I found the threads on the nut and spindle had been damaged...
I have a 1979 228 Mercruiser. I bought it last fall and I am getting it ready to put in the water. Everything has been gone over and is working well except the trim sender. I traced the problem down to being a corroded through wire at the sender on the out drive. How hard is it to replace this...
Don I have seen you tell many of the folks here what manual they need. I need some advice on my manual.
I bought a 1979 Searay and it came with a manual. It is Vol 2. My engine sn is MC 228 5400698 and my Transom assbly is 5429742. Inside the front cover of the manual it states the sn it covers...
I think I have read that the mercruiser 305 gm fuel pump is not rebuildable. However the one one my boat looks to me like it could be easily taken apart. There are screws around the entire circumference of the body. Is it true that there are no kits available for this fuel pump?
