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    1950 FIRESTONE 3.6HP LOWER UNIT SEAL AND GREASE?

    I picket up a nice 1950 -1955 vintage Firestone 3.6 motor. Ordered a new decal and stripping off all the old paint. All seems to be fine mechanically except I need a gasket for the take-apart lower unit and not sure about what grease to use in the lower unit. Any help would be...
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    Hard starting 7.5 hp 2 stroke

    I have an 84 7.5 hp Merc 2 stroke that is hard to start. I have taken off the carb 4 times....soaked it, cleaned it, rebuilt the fuel pump, put a new carb to block gasket on, new needle valve. New plugs. After I get it started it runs great and will continue to restart on the first pull...
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    Old 20hp merc sputters at idle

    I recently picked up a nice old 1974 20HP Merc. It has 110 PSI on both cylinders, and looks very clean and underused. Great spark. I took off the carb, took it all apart and cleaned it, although it was very clean already. Reset the float a little. All "looked" good. Checked the high speed...
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    94 200 hp yamaha ran out of oil

    :( I did the unthinkable. Ran my Yamaha out of oil. There was plenty of oil in the boat reservoir but it did not pump into my motor reservoir. No alarms went off, the motor just suddenly dropped down to idle. I shut it off right away and added oil to the motor tank. It started up but was...
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