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  1. midcarolina

    Question on possible failures

    So... here is the story, I have a 94 mariner 115 has always ran great except for the usual rough 2+2 idle. This morning I decided I would do the gallon of gas and can of seafoam treatment to clean up carbs/top end, got everything set up put muffs on cranked her up walked back to motor and...
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    Mariner 115 service manual clarification

    I have a 1994 Mariner 115 I need to order the correct OEM manual, I'm just a tad confused on which is the correct one...The motor serial # is 0G062891 Thanks...
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    Anyone use one of the sonarphone products?

    I was messing around the Navionics site and followed the link to sonarphone........... seems interesting curious if anybody has had any hands on expeiriance with these products...........
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    I just wanna say..........

    Gooooo Gamecocks!!!!!
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    modifying bimini top width

    A buddy of mine gave me a pretty nice 3 bow bimini......center of mounting points on boat is 73" bimini frame is 69" I know I can spread the bimini to get it to mount, But the problem is the narrow frame lay's over the outside portion of the sun deck......making it a pain to open the deck to...
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    Test post forum

    Just thinkin....... with all the posts on can't reply. can't post, pictures won't attach and such I wonder if it wouldn't help if one of you techies put up a test forum atleast unitl things get back to normal.......folks can test posting pics or whatever and can be easily cleaned up every so often.
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    Another issue to add to the list

    When I come to the forum I usually click on the new topics tab........browse the new topics, If I reply to a thread and actually get it to post it resets the new topics to 2 pages even if prior to the reply there where 14 pages where did all the other pages of new topics go?
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    4.3 merc Cracked block, blown head gasket, or manifods? (LONG)

    Re: 4.3 merc Cracked block, blown head gasket, or manifods? (LONG) It's kind of hard to describe how to make up the adapter check this image out.......I think it will give you the basic idea Of coarse the water separator shown is not needed, you could also make it up out of PVC since you...
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    Odd mercruiser serial number

    I thought for a while this motor was a 305....But it has vortec heads 8 intake bolts, did vortec's even come on a 305? The OE Mercruiser tag is missing from the back of the block, there is a tag on the front of the block just below the head stamped V05269ZA I'm guessing this is a reman...
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    Shift interrupt clarification

    I have a Merc 5.0 with a alpha one gen 2 with the new style button shift interrupt switch........I have searched but could not verify.... Should you be able to physically rotate or ratchet the V plate that activates the button switch if you removed the lower shift cable from the shift plate? I...
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    Does a hydro foil = stiff steering?

    First a little history, I purchased a Glastron SX175 the po had the boat repowered with a 5.0 and alpha gen 2 drive. The po spent a lot of money trying to make a fairly light bow rider into a wakeboard boat.. any how the boat has sat in the po garage for the past 3 years he was told the motor...
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