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I just purchased a 19' Stingray (1998) with 100 hours on the Mercruiser 4.3 I/O engine. Boat has never seen salt water and been stored indoors all of its life. I will be using it in brackish water. I am considering installing a fresh water cooling system to eliminate salt issues. Any...
Well my 1987 Force 125 HP finally bit the dust. I am looking at a nice fuel injected Mercury 115 HP to power my 18' Bayliner center console. We use it to cruise, fish and occasionally wakeboard. Do you think the Merc 115 will have equivalent power as the Force 125 had?
Thanks for your opinion!
Put my 18.5' Bayliner center console in the water last weekend and fired it up. Engine was wintereized as I have done for the past 3 years I have owned it and it was running great. Engine is a 1988 vintage. Boat was unusually slow to plane out and idling /running rough. I suspected it was...
