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Put in a new water pump kit while I had the leg off, now I've got extra parts....
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If you look at the above picture of the kit from Sierra here at iBoats, you'll see two gaskets for the pump that are identical, one small o-ring, and...
So, plugging along this weekend on my swap of an old 305 to a new 350. Here's a little background on my 22' Glasply cabin cruiser--bought a new Kodiak Marine TBI 350 complete from belts to bellhousing for a very good price, pulled my 1978 305 merc 898 out, and started fitting parts. Solved the...
I've got a merc 898 (305 Chev, 1978) with a newer reman'd leg (Alpha gen-1 style, new in '07, running 1.47:1). I'm swapping the old engine with a brand new, zero hour, 350 TBI from Kodiak Marine. The new engine comes with a 14" flywheel, and I've ordered a conversion 12.75" flywheel from the...
Cruising along at 2900 RPMs on plane today and the engine cut out dead. Fired it back up after about 30 seconds, ran for a couple hundred feet at a fast idle, started to push up on plane, and it died again. Got worse and worse until it only ran at idle for ten seconds or so before conking out...
