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Buddy of mine has a 2006 50hp 4 stroke Merc , is there anything special to do to winterising this motor ?
All help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance :)
Seems i have a few left over quarts of synthetic oil with a couple of onces left in them is it alright to mix them with regular TCW3 outboard motor oil . I am mixing 24 to 1 for a 1963 Johnson 18hp .
Your input is appreciated :)
Well i have it up and running after replacing Coils, Condensers, Points , plugs and wires. Next step will be water pump impeller and maybe a lower end seal kit. When i picked up this motor last fall with a broken prop and crank key i did not have much hope of getting it going but i did get it...
Well wile im waiting for decals for my 1955 15HP Evinrude i decided to take a look at a 1963 Johnson 18hp i bought off a guy last winter for 50 bucks :)
When i bought it he said he had it running on the river and it just quit and that he did not have the time to look at it .
Well to me he did...
Hi all ,
This weekend i stripped the paint off my 1955 15hp Evinrude brought it right down to bare Aluminum applied self etching primer to it the a filling primer ,all on separate days , so this evening i decided to give the motor cover a coat of what i tought was a close to original paint...
Hi a buddy of mine has a 1962 28hp with lower unit problems , he used it with no oil plugs and now everything is seized . Question is he can get a complete 1968 33hp ,are the lower units the same .As far as we can see they both use the same gasket an seal kit. Are they the same lower unit ? Any...
