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    Alpha one bearing noise

    Looking for advice. I've got an alpha one gen one that makes a bad bearing growling noise when I turn when cruising. It's not the gimbal, I already replaced it with no change in the noise. The U-joints were free of any binding and no movement due to wear. If I spin the prop by hand while on the...
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    1984 Four Winns rot under ski locker

    My boat is a 19' Four Winns Horizon and this summer I've noticed the lovely decomposing wood smell every time I opened the ski locker. Now that the season is over, I've decided to spend the winter working on it. After opening things up, I found water logged foam under the floor of the ski...
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    Alpha one shifting problem

    I have an 84 Four Winns with a Alpha One and a Chevy 305. While on the water the other day, it would shift into forward later during the forward travel of the gear shift than usual. Like it would finally go into gear when the engine speed started to increase and would slam into gear. I've...
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    New (to me) Four Winns

    I sold my 81 17 foot Seaswirl and picked up a 84 190 Four Winns 190 Horizon. I'm loving the additional power and room this boat has. However when I make a sharper turn at around 15 or 20 MPH, this boat feels like it tips into the turn a lot more than my last boat. It's to the point where it...
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    Intermediate housing bearings

    The boat is an 1981 Seaswirl with a 120 HP OMC drive. Over the weekend I got a really bad noise from behind the engine and after finding no oil in the intermediate housing, I removed the intermediate shaft and found the bearings are shot. I've bought some new bearings (as well as new ball...
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    OMC 120 HP is a slug

    My dad bought this boat about 8 years ago. It is a 17' Sea Swirl with the 4 cyl. 120 hp OMC I/O. My dad recently gave me this boat (he upgraded) and I'm wanting to take my family out in it and do some tubing, skiing ext. (we have previously mostly just fished with it) The problem is it take...
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