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    Need options for making the ground flat enough to roll the trailer. Drive way pad.

    Hi Any suggestions?: Hooking up my boat trailer and moving it out of my fenced/gated yard is a problem because we can't push it by hand when it's on the dirt yard and the exit into the alley is too narrow for my van to make the turn into the alley while connected to the trailer. SO we always...
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    wrong jets?

    Paying it forward here, just sharing the pages I have of the bulletin. I hope this helps someone looking to adjust for high altitude(or verify factory jet sizes). To get perhaps a slight amount of power back and to reduce excess smoking and fuel use and engine bogging if still set to sea...
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    High altitude set up ????

    Say I hope this helps someone looking to adjust for high altitude. To get perhaps a slight amount of power back and to reduce excess smoking and fuel use and engine bogging if still set to sea level from the factory. Here I've attached some of the pages from the high altitude OMC 2217 bulletin...
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    Vinyl fabric to protect and allow storage over battery & fuel tank sending unit, etc

    Hi, sharing, I discovered a simple cheap way to protect sensitive wires and so allow storage on top of and around then safely. Such as my boat battery and fuel tank float sending unit. I used a good quality vinyl fabric patch I had. Use a small Phillips screw driver to punch holes where...
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    reverse gear clicking noise

    To be more thorough I'd like to add what I found part of the problem was and how to fix: to also to grab and check your cable's plastic trunnion nut for any excessive back and forth movement in the aluminum pocket that holds the trunnion. If excessive, the nut edges are worn. I found a simple...
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    Hard to move throttle & loose sloppy trunnions at engine, repaired/fixed!

    Hi Just wanted to share my cleaning of the control head’s throttle cable AND EASY *repair of loose sloppy cable trunnions* on my 1980 Evinrude 140 with Power Pilot control head. STICKING HARD TO MOVE THROTTLE / CABLE REPAIR FIX: I watched and used this method of using a compressor and 3/8”...
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