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    50hp Force - tilt rebuild

    Hi guys, I have an 89 50hp Force and 2 years ago I put on a trim/tilt that I found on ebay. The thing worked great until this year when it started loosing pressure. I decided to rebuild it and ran into some trouble. When I open the working section of the pump, a few ball bearings and a spring...
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    Speedometer Identification

    I am looking to replace my speedometer, but as I am searching I am finding that speedometers are listed with R/I ,V/L or S/P at the end of the description. Can someone tell me what it means. My speedo works with air pressure so I am thinking that it has something to do with how it is activated...
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    Force 50hp Tachometer

    Hi Guys, I have a 1989 Force 50hp outboard motor that currently does not have a techometer. I am not sure I can even put one on, but I would like to try. Does anyone know if this is possible on this motor? If so, which number of poles would I use? I searched long and hard and have seen 2...
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    50HP Lower Unit Assembly

    Hi Guys, I started putting my loewr unit back together and I have two things to ask you about. 1. When I was installing new seals in the upper section of the lower unit these U shaped wires fell out of it. I have no idea what they are. Check out the picture below. 2. The race for the pinion...
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    Dog wear

    Hi Guys, How do I determine if my dogs and gears need replacing? I am having a problem my 50 hp Force outboard. It feels like it jumps out of gear and then back in. it does it quite often at very slow speeds and as I go faster it happens less and less. When this happens it is only for a split...
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    Clunk at low speed

    Hi Guys, I recently boat a bass boat with a 50HP Force Engine (507X9B) and when traveling at slow speed there is a clunking that happens once every couple minutes or so. It does not happen when I traveling say 1/2 speed or faster. It feels like it is disengading and re-engadging. I do not want...
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