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  1. JoLin

    Gen II Trim Cylinder Replacement - Bleeding?

    Replaced all 4 trim cylinders and hoses on my Gen II's with new SEI units and wondering about bleeding them. The Merc manual shows their procedure, disconnecting hoses and bleeding the up and down circuits individually. According to SEI's youtube video, however, it's sufficient to simply run the...
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    Rain-X Headlight Restore Kit - Great Product!

    Getting the 2007 Mitsubishi ready to sell. The headlight covers were a mess- just like the 'before' pictures on the infomercials. One of the car magazines reviewed a bunch of them, and the Rain-X kit came in near the top, but much cheaper than most, like 3-M. I bought it on Amazon through one...
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    My New to Me Car

    Been shopping for a relacement for the '07 Mitsu Outlander. It's in decent shape, 'only' has 83K miles on it and has been rock-solid reliable. After 5 years of noise, vibration and the cheap/tinny feel of the thing I'm ready for a change. I make one or two long road trips a year and this year's...
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    Toshiba Laptop Upgrade - Which to try first?

    I have a 3 1/2 year old Toshiba Satellite running Win 8.1, with 500 gig hard drive and 6 gigs of ram. It's about perfect for my use with a nice big screen. I don't do graphics or gaming and the hard drive is less than 1/4 full. I maintain it by running disk cleanup often and making sure the hard...
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    Fixing the Dishwasher

    It's a GE going on 10 years old. For the past year the cleaning's gotten progressively worse- cloudy glasses and dishes not always getting clean. After pricing a new one (ouch!) I hit the web and did some research. After tossing out all the water too hard/too soft, too much/too little detergent...
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    Don't You just Love Internet Shopping?

    Did all the Xmas shopping for my wife in an hour, from my recliner. Take THAT, you cold-weather-shopping-mall-can't-find-a-parking-space-rude-people-out-of-stock weenies!
  7. JoLin

    One Trim Ram Extended By Itself..

    Alpha Gen 2 drive. Disconnected the batteries, pulled the outdrives, and a couple days later saw that one trim ram had extended by 4" all by itself. The other 3 are all compressed, the way I left them. What's going on?
  8. JoLin

    Flushing the Engine Block?

    The boat's out of the water and I ran it on muffs to flush out the salt before I drained the blocks. On the older of my 2 motors (2003 Merc Reman), I had to work to clear both block drains, and a lot of rusty water and debris gushed out. Is there a good way to force water (with a garden hose)...
  9. JoLin

    Rest In Peace, Molly

    Our cat of 16 years, we got her at 8 weeks old. Never wanted or needed much, but she was my constant indoor companion. Was always right next to me in my chair or on the couch, and always laid right next to me in bed. She was most content when I rested my hand on her... she'd purr herself to...
  10. JoLin

    Our Second Annual 'Voyage' Starts Tomorrow

    Our Power Squadron District (District 3) holds its annual rendezvous of the 16 Long Island and metro New York squadrons, in Greenport every year at this time. Last year, my friend Tom and I decided to go on from there to Martha's Vineyard. We had such a good time that when the other members of...
  11. JoLin

    Power Steering Pump Hose "Combiner" - Where Do I Get One?

    Hi, guys. My port engine (2012 4.3 Gen+ Reman) is equipped with a power steering pump, but that engine doesn't provide the power assist to the steering. My starboard engine does. In any event, on the port engine Merc took the simple step of screwing the ends of the two hoses from and to the...
  12. JoLin

    Std Horizon GX1700 VHF - Really Cool Feature

    Since I bought mine with built-in GPS, three of my friends have bought the same unit. We were setting up a couple of them at a raft-up last weekend and we found a really cool feature. The VHF has a sort-of address book that you can use to program others' names and MMSI call numbers into. If...
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    How hard will it be to steer...

    If I disable the Power assist? The boat in my sig has hydraulic steering - it's a Teleflex/Hynautic pressurized system . The boat also has a Merc. power steering system. The two systems are completely separate hydraulically. Each has it's own reservior, fluid, hoses and steering ram. The two...
  14. JoLin

    Finally Happened - Caught in Fog

    Been boating now for about 9 years. Anytime I ever saw fog rolling in I always managed to beat it home. Not today. Rolled in thick and fast, and before I knew it we were socked in at our favorite weekend anchorage. Visibility only about 200 feet at most. The smart move might have been to wait it...
  15. JoLin

    Sweet Justice

    http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/bank-america-owed-couple-over-2k-and-despite-their-repeated-attempts-get-it-bank?Fb=ns Got a chuckle out of this. I own a condo in FL that I mortgaged through B of A, and they've been a royal PITA. I finally paid it off 8 years early by using my (primary...
  16. JoLin

    Woo-Hoo! She Floats!

    For the first time, I DIY'd a major service on both my Alphas. New bellows, water hoses, shift cables, trim sender/limit switches. Modified a motorcycle jack to R&R the drives. Built a pressure tester and as a result, replaced the shift shaft bushing in one drive. Literally spent DAYS adjusting...
  17. JoLin

    Trim Sender Connection Question- Which lead goes where?

    Alpha Gen 2. Somebody cut the connectors off the old trim position senders (both engines) and butt-connected the sender leads directly to the wiring harness. The new sender has two bullet connectors on the leads. One female, one male. Anyone know which lead (female or male) connects to the...
  18. JoLin

    Alpha Gen 2 Bellhousing Continuity Wire - Replace?

    The screw holding the wire to the bellhousing on my port drive is frozen. Can't loosen it (tried heat gun and PBlaster) and I'm starting to bugger up the screw head. On the starboard drive, the wire is broken. Haven't tried to remove the screw(s) there yet, but don't expect much better luck. I...
  19. JoLin

    Alpha Gen 2 Tilt/Trim - No Movement

    Today I hate boats. Last fall when the transporter picked up the Carver to bring it to my house, the port-side outdrive wouldn't trim up. Hit the switch, motor ran, but no movement on the drive. Checked the fluid and it was full. Tried trim switch, trailer switch... couldn't get the outdrive to...
  20. JoLin

    Experience with SEI Replacement Parts for Mercruiser?

    I'll preface this question by saying that I'm big on using Mercruiser OEM parts wherever possible. However, I'll be doing major maintenance on a pair of Gen 2's shortly. U-joint and shift cable bellows (I have exhaust tubes so don't need to struggle with exhaust bellows), trim senders...
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