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    WATER JACKET/HEAD GASKET 1987 25 HP 2 STROKE MERCURY

    My readings are considered low? Great!
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    WATER JACKET/HEAD GASKET 1987 25 HP 2 STROKE MERCURY

    I checked the compression: The lower 83.0 The upper 88.5 85.0 87.5 89.5 86.5 I pulled 5 times and then read and repeated 3x's...
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    WATER JACKET/HEAD GASKET 1987 25 HP 2 STROKE MERCURY

    I will check the compression tonight.
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    WATER JACKET/HEAD GASKET 1987 25 HP 2 STROKE MERCURY

    I just bought this motor, had it out 2 times. The last time it had only been running for 2 minutes hadn't even left the dock when water starting coming out one of the spark plugs! Do all failures of this gasket mean the engine overheated? or can it just be because of age? I am going to do the...
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    Throttle linkage cable barrel at motor will not go into hole without moving throttle.

    I REALLY need help! I took the shifter and throttle parts off my 1989 Mercury 20 hp 2 stroke and installed them on a 1989 Mercury tiller 25 hp 2 stroke. I have a quick silver remote control box. When hooking up the linkage at the control box the way it was for my 20 hp the throttle cable at the...
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    I am at the end on my rope with trying to install my throttle and gear selection linkage at motor.

    Now I have a 20 hp and a 25 hp that I cant use, great!
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    I am at the end on my rope with trying to install my throttle and gear selection linkage at motor.

    Hi all, I guess you are right the configuration is different! Here's the thing, the parts aren't avail. anymore and I thought what I did would work, wrong. How depressing! I have been looking for a 2 cyl. short shaft with controls 20 or 25 hp for 10 years, with no luck! I have a homemade boat...
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    I am at the end on my rope with trying to install my throttle and gear selection linkage at motor.

    I tried looking up my exact motor on that web site crowley marine and it doesnt have canadain models.
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    I am at the end on my rope with trying to install my throttle and gear selection linkage at motor.

    You can't flip cables end to end. They are different at the box end.
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    I am at the end on my rope with trying to install my throttle and gear selection linkage at motor.

    This is everything that came from the 20 hp
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    I am at the end on my rope with trying to install my throttle and gear selection linkage at motor.

    Here is a video of what is happening https://www.facebook.com/debbie.mowat
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    I am at the end on my rope with trying to install my throttle and gear selection linkage at motor.

    I have tried switching the throttle cable with the shifter cable at the motor and at the controls, nothing I do makes this work right! I am ready to just drive my boat with the cable sitting with me up at the steering wheel and just push and pull it from there without the control box.
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    I am at the end on my rope with trying to install my throttle and gear selection linkage at motor.

    I bought a 1989 Mercury 25 hp 2 stroke and took off the tiller. I installed all the parts from my 1989 Mercury 20 hp 2 stroke. that I needed for remote controls. The control box worked fine on the 20 hp.
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    I am at the end on my rope with trying to install my throttle and gear selection linkage at motor.

    No boat shops around here!
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    I am at the end on my rope with trying to install my throttle and gear selection linkage at motor.

    Ive done what you wrote above but when getting to hooking up throttle cable the barrel doesnt adjust back enough to line up to hole. It runs out of threads!
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    I am at the end on my rope with trying to install my throttle and gear selection linkage at motor.

    If I disconnect the throttle and shifter cables the motor starts on the first pull. If I hook up the cables I am unable to pull the starter rope handle, it wont move because Ive had to move the whole throttle assembly forward to line up the hole where the barrel goes.
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    I am at the end on my rope with trying to install my throttle and gear selection linkage at motor.

    With the cables disconnected at the motor,To figure out which cable is which it says to move the control arm of remote forward a bit and whatever cable starts moving first- that is the shifter cable. So I hook that up first no problems but then next is the throttle cable and as I said before...
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    I am at the end on my rope with trying to install my throttle and gear selection linkage at motor.

    Yes But the barrel wont adjust far enough so the throttle moves connecting it. And it says everywhere to make adjust to insert barrel without that happening.
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    I am at the end on my rope with trying to install my throttle and gear selection linkage at motor.

    I have a quick silver commander control box, cables work good, not hard or seized. Put in neutral, hook up shifter cable, fine. Throttle cable barrel doesnt adjust enough to go on peg without moving the throttle forward. Anyone got any answers or suggestions.
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    Where I can find information on what type of wood. size and how to go about making new trim around my boat? I just put a new plywood deck,

    Thanks for the reply, that helps. Plane off fiberglass? And if I do then wont I lose all of my strength?
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