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    My flush plugs missing when I got it.

    My 1974 mercury 7.5 hp model 75 had not a flush plug in it when I bought it. It's just a plug right? If I was to get a pipe plug, there shouldn't be an issue, as for as blocking cooling passages, was thinking of like just the Allen wrench style plug with a tiny dab of Teflon RecTor seal...
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    1974 7,5 mercury

    Im back! Finally had the chance to take my mercury to the water,well it Was a river a low one at that, ran sweet going down, but coming back up the river it dropped to one cylinder again, after replacing the coils. When I got back home I checked for fire on the number two cylinder and there was...
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    1974-76 mercury 7.5 coil wiring

    I was about to swap coil positions to see if the problem was the coil or the stator, if the problem followed the coil, when I noticed the wires were reversed" the top cylinder coil has the green with white stripe on the negative terminal, the solid green wire is on the positive terminal, (the...
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    1974 mercury 7.5 hp 2 cycle

    Has the two red coils behind flywheel, if a coil is going bad or bad will it spark internally? It has spark at the plug but not as big of a spark as the number two cylinder, drops to one cylinder at idle then other cylinder comes back at mid range point through to wot. Any info would be...
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    Mercury 7.5 hp sparking sound from coil area?

    Well I got the reverse shift cam put in and carb and fuel pump kits in, runs good mid range to wot, but when you get below mid range it sounds like the plug wire is jump firing to ground, I waited till it got dark out in hopes of seeing the spark. No luck! Just replaced the plug wires (solid...
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    Is there an easier way to reinstall lower unit on 7.5 mercury?

    The 1974 7.5 mercury I purchased had just had the water pump impeller replaced by previous owner, well they got the shifter bevel gears out of time, got that to where the detent tab and shifter moves to reverse neutral forward perfectly. Went to put lower unit back on got the water tube back in...
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    What year is my mercury?

    "Howdy from Texas" just bought me another motor, and at the moment it looks as if I'm gonna have the same problem I had with my 6 hp evinrude. No specific year.kinda like I find the only fatherless motors, lol" china version perhaps? Just got an older motor, late seventies early eighties I'm...
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    6 hp evinrude spitting

    First of all I'm new to iboat. Not even sure if I'm in the right place to post a post? I just purchase a 6hp Evinerude tiller steer ; 6702D E08598 is on the freeze plug, I can see where there was a tag on the transom clamp, can someone tell me what year this motor is with this number? I found...
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