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    Wont crank, starter or solenoid, oh yeah i also found a wire just hanging pic inside

    last year i stopped using the boat because i thought the starter had gone out, one day it would just not crank while in the middle of the lake, I was able to start it with the cord thing. So two days ago, decided to start working on it, and when i decided to fire it up, it cranked and started...
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    another - no neutral thread

    ok so i have a 1987 bayliner capri, with a 85HP Force motor. I changed the impeller a once and have dropped the lower part many times, more time than i can count, and was always careful since i have read here that if you somehow put it in gear or mess with the throttle handle you can loose...
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    added a tell tale and no water just vapor, also water trough spark plug, please read

    so my boat died on me last sunday at the lake, it started sputtering and whenever i turned it back on it will die when placed in gear, also i was getting a lot lot of pressure coming out the outside exhaust (the little 2 holes) everytime a wave came and water level went up, lot of pressure...
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    can i swap cd boxes

    ok so the 85hp is a 3 cyl, with 2 cd boxes, each one of them with connections for 2 cyl, since the motor is a 3 cyl one feeder is not being used, and my cd box that feeds 2 cyl one half is not working properly, so can i swap it with the one that is only using one side?
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    ok now top cylinder working but no spark on bottom cylinder, help!!!

    my last thread was about my top cylinder sparking but not really making a combustion, so today while i was looking at it, i say a wire underneath the flywheel that had been rubbing with something and was almost striped, so i replaced that wire and then when i fired it, the top cylinder now works...
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    FORCE 85hp sudden loss of power :(

    i have a 87 capri bayliner, the outboard motor on it is a force 85 hp (unknown year) last saturday at the lake the boat was running great, then we turned it off and just relaxed for a couple of hours when we turn it back on the boat would not go over 10 mph, at wide open throttle the engine...
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