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    battery isolator question.

    ok first off thank you for all your help you have provided me in the past. ok so here we go, i have a 87 wellcraft cuddy, witha merc 470 4 cyl. it has the larger heat exchanger, and an alt. conversion kit installed, it has a 100 amp one wire alt installed, an SE106 outdrive, and i replaced the 2...
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    outdrive install...

    so i have a 87 wellcraft with a 470 merc engine with a se106 outdrive, i replaced the gimbal bearing and now im trying to install the outdrive, i know it is tight, i rotated the prop and the shaft slid into the motor and went on aout another inch but i can get it to the point where the threads...
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    merc tilt trim pump...

    ive got an 87 wellcraft with an SE106 outdrive and a merc 4 cyl 170HP. so i uncovered the boat today after a long wet winter and started to check everything, seems my tilt trim motor is dead. solenoid click so i tried to jump b+ to blue and green leads (one at a time) nothing happened. soooo i...
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    shift cable question, and 1 more

    i posted here about a month ago asking what was wrong with my shifter. problem was it would bind going into reverse and stall the engine. so i ordered a lower shift cable and tool to remove it. i removed the outdrive today and found 2 things. some water in the bellows. and when i move the...
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    prop movement

    just another quick question. took the boat out for a bit today. lil chilly but not to bad. any way, when i got back in and back on the trailor i dont know why but i spun the prop when i was walking by, then i noticed the prop had some free play. not to much but if i grab the center of the prop...
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    deck project for the winter

    ive got a question about the deck on my boat. ive got an 87 wellcraft 19.5 foot cuddy. just baught it a few months back. it has the blue i guess you would call it carpet in it. i mostly use it for fishing, i have been thinking about the deck since i was out on a friends sport fishing boat. i...
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    stalls when i shift

    well heres the story, i have a 19 foot wellcraft with a 4 cyl merc in it, its an 87. heres the problem. starts fine runs fine drives fine throttle seems to work fine, but after im out in the water driving around for a bit, when i slow down and shift into neutral i have to rock the shifter back...
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    exhaust question

    so i just read another post here about a different boat and it made me wonder about my boat. i have a wellcraft with a merc 470with the closed cooling. runs great, no overheating, brand new sea water pump and housing and inlet lines. heres my question. when looking at the back of the boat with...
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    alt. output question

    simple question, my merc 470 came with the alt. conversion installed with a delco 100 amp one wire alt installed. ive takin the boat out fishing and cruising a few time and last trip i noticed the batteries were crankng the engine slow. so i got home and tested the batteries with a midtronics...
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    coil upgrade?

    found my coil is leaking so time to replace it, my question is, its a merc 470 engine, with a resistor wire, can i replace this coil with an automotive coil? if so would i still use the resistor wire? just trying to increase the spark since i have to replace it any way, if its a hassle ill just...
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    trouble opening service info

    so i have been trying to open the service manual all after noon, installed 7zip and winzip. downloaded the file to my docs. then i right click file and select open archive. it goes through its process. then i have a winzip file in my docs. so i click open with winzip and it says its not a valid...
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    coil leaking?

    i have an 87 mercruiser 470. i wiped everything down a few days back and lubricated all linkages but was careful not to make a mess. after i had noticed on the two wires that come off my coil there was a yellow oil almost dripping off, didnt think much of it, looked around for an oil leak...
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    fuel water separator

    i have a 87 wellcraft with a mercruiser 4 cyl in it and a sterndrive engineering out drive, boat runs great, i bought it a few weeks back and put some work into it and got it running good. the boat did sit for a full year, so i pumped all the gas out and put new gas in with some fuel treatment...
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    gimble bearing

    i have the outdrive off of my wellcraft. figured now is a good time to check the engine allignment and gimble bearing. it is a merc 4 cyl, and it has a se106 outdrive. any help would be awsome. thanks
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    exhaust flapper?

    i have an 87 wellcraft with a merc 170 hp 4 cyl inboard with an se106 outdrive. i have been reading all the posts i can trying to learn everything that i can about boats since this is my first real boat, (i always had small 13 foot boats with small outboards for the local lakes and rivers when i...
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