amazing what a diff it makes with just a bit of heat. You can do the same getting bearings on shafts etc by heating them. We have a couple bearing heaters at work that Ive used for jobs like this.
do yourself a favor and get a factory service manual (merc manual #14 for gen 2 drives)
While the answers above are correct - the manual will have all the detail on this and any other repairs, any special tools, What lubes , sealants etc are used where
agreed seen was not meant literally.
I think the oldest gas I ran was about 8-10 years old, and this is E10, was stabilized originally but car just sat as an unfinished product for years.
Conversely this summer my buddies boat fuel smelled fine but got milky when sitting in a jar. Something in...
I’ll play the other side of the fence , have you taken a sample of the fuel out and seen what it looks like first. I have seen stabilized fuel older than that be fine. Have also siphoned fuel out of rusty fuel tank, let it settle in 5 gal buckets, siphon off the sediment and run it through a...
if you haven't used these types of low temp solder connectors before they are fantastic. uses a heat gun vs torch to melt the solder inside the heat shrink...
pretty typical these days. Its not that bad once you wrap your head around it. on my toyotas its actually pretty accessible. I'll take it over the old school drop the pan as the drain plug....
I don't ever recall seeing a carbed TBV 4.3 that used a knock module. I'll look though my TB V ignition manual (4B) manual tonight but dont think you'll find a listing for it.
Attached is a module listing from sterdrive.cc , the only 4.3 knock modules it lists are for TBI engines with Delco...
Agreed especially if there are no engines in there anymore. Had an old penn yann years ago (30+) that had it in the hull bottom was a PITA even with straight 6 ...
Same here the sun tach and dwell I bought in 1990 ish died, so I use my fathers that he bought in the 60 s, still works. garage Sales and FB market place are good places to look.
normally a shop tach is for temp hook up either on a plug or the negative side of the coil. if you need a timing light I would get a timing light with a tach. I keep waiting for my old dial back timing light to die (1990 vintage...)...
good to know thanks for sharing this. I have never bought a new boat, but our current one is a 2004, kids are almost out of college, was trying to warm the wife up to it.
We have had two smallish Sea Rays ('91 and '04) and they have held up really well but I was really disappointed with the...
Are you happy with the boat in general. Was just at the Philly boat show and thought the fit and finish on the chaprrals was pretty good. Was not impressed with the Sea Ray SPXs. SLXs were comfortable interiors on the other hand.
I had zero issues in 20 years of having our DDIS 3.0, boat was 5 years old when we got it, so 25 years trouble free. I never even changed the plug wires. I would run it until something breaks which If I recall correctly is normally the module or coil pack.
