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    Old fuel!!!

    Help! Just bought a 29 Monterey that had been sitting for two years(Fuel could be 3 years old). Tried starting, boat idles and dies, hooked up a fuel tank from my outboard(portable tank), boat starts and purrs.... What do I do with 50 gallons of old fuel that the motor doesn't like?????????Is...
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    Volvo fuel pump

    My 2000 volvo 5.0liter Gi motor has a bad low pressure fuel pump, the only replacement I can find is a complete fuel cell(part number 21545138). Does anybody know where to purchase just the low pressure pump??? Don't want to spend 700.00 if I don have to.
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    volvo no run

    My friend is trying to purchase a 2001 regal with a volvo 5.0gxi-b series motor. The boat starts idles for 5-10 seconds and dies. Boat has sat for one year. this is a gm based 5.0 liter with the throttle body. Plenty of fuel in the boat, new filters, when you turn the key, the fuel pump...
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    cold start problem

    Mercruiser 2007 5.7 carb. My fuel pump works good, pump throttle, fuel comes out from accelarator pump. This model has a 2 barrell carb, but no choke plate. I figure it must be electronically controlled, On the older boats I owned you could take the arrester off and see the choke closed or...
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    Mercruiser No Start

    I just brought home(new to me) Bayliner 2007 Discovery with a 5.7 carb motor. The boat is on a trailer, I hooked up the water muffs to start the boat, The boat turns over, no start. Made sure safety swith was on, no start. Pulled aircleaner, no fuel spray from carb when pumped. Poured some...
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    Bravo 2

    I am looking at buying a 28ft boat with a 454 and a bravo 2 drive. The boat ran fine, got on a plane, ran out to 4200rpm. Question was when boat was pulled out of the water, I spun the prop by hand while in nuetral. It took a far amount of effort to turn the prop, usually you can grab a...
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    Bennett Trim Tabs

    I just received a replacement pump from Bennett for my early 90s boat, at no charge!!! I sent my pump in for repair after posting my problem on this web site, and got a new replacement for no charge, how's that for customer service. I've been boating for over 25 years and have never had...
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    Bennet trim tabs -not staying down

    My bennet trim tabs work when at dock, but when running at a plane, they try to go down, (the bow goes down) and a few seconds later the bow will start rising. Plenty of oil in resevoir, new boat to me, so don't know if it was having a problem before.
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    How to clean a FWC heat exchanger

    Anybody know how to clean the tubes (raw water) in a FWC heat exhanger, I removed the end plates and found alot of crud (salt crystals?) in the end of the unit.
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    generator not starting

    Have a Kohler 6.5 gas gen, if I hold the start button down, the gen starts and will run as long as the start button is depressed, once I let it go it dies, any ideas?? Ro
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    closed cooling question

    Have a volvo 454 with fresh water cooling, model 740 1991-- was servicing the cooling system and was trying to find were the zinc goes into the tank, my mercruiser boat that I had before had a zinc anode that screwed in the bottom of the fresh water tank, but can't find were the volvo put...
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