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    Whatever to do???

    OK, not my first rodeo but I could use some input on this. I dragged a wellcraft 19.6 home the other week. I like the hull and am going to set it up for cruising and fishing in the sound and inshore. It currently has a mercruiser 470 in it that recently seized up. no water in the oil and it...
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    Well CRAP! Fuel system MESS - I think I screwed up....

    I've been running E10 in my boat, but found a place that has 93 octane ethanol free gase and have been running it in my corvette. I switched the boat over yesterday not thinking about the possible problems and I am pretty sure I REALLY crapped the fuel system up... needle valves leaking past...
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    half closed vs full closed cooling..

    I've recently upgrade my boat to closed cooling (aluminum heads, intake, etc... want to run in brackish without issue). I bought and modified a big block set-up so I'd be sure to have enough capacity for my engine. It works great with the manifolds cooled by raw water. Does anyone have a...
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    gear sets...

    Don, Bond-o (others if you like). To the extent you can tell from the pics, what do you think about the following two gear sets wear / wear patterns? Mainly in the context of using either... the first two pics are one, the second two another. Thanks for any time you spend schoolin me /...
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    external above decks fuel tank...

    What is the safest / preferred way to set an i/o up for a second, external (above deck, externally vented) fuel tank? There are days I want to be able to carry more fuel than my permanent tank holds. I have an external 12 gal plastic tank I would strap to the deck and have accounted for the...
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    using gears, shafts and bearings from one upper in another...

    Is there anything I have to watch out for if I do this so long as I keep matched gears and bearing sets, clean, inspect all parts, set rolling torque (2.5 - 4 lb in) and reshim using the propper tools? Thanks in advance for your help.
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    alpha gen one impeller / water flow and gear ratio..

    Don, Bond-o, others? are there any numbers published anywhere for standard water flow or pressure rates from a standard alpha one gen one water pump for the different gear ratios? I've done some searching and haven't come up with anything yet. Thanks in advance for any assistance...
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    An extremely interesting read regarding outdrive failure...

    http://www.jklopman.com/articles/sterndrives2.pdf I ran across this paper while digging around and thought it was great! Based on another careful look at the upper gearset i "cooked" (burnt the high end merc synthetic lube black, caught it before it turned into many bits of metal), I can say...
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    Changing upper gears...

    I want to change the upper gears in late 80s alpha drive I just bought. It currently has a heavy duty 1.32 gear set in it. Do I understand correctly that if I want to install a 1.65 gear set, that I will need to get new bearings that are sized for the other gears? I've got someone good to do...
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    tiny slivers of metal, burnt gear lube...

    Most of all I'm looking for an impression from folks that have had a lot of experience with drive repair and changes of how bad it is that I had some very small metal shavings on the magnetic plug when I drained the lube. and some of the lube was burnt looking. Alpha gen one, 1.8 gear, original...
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    bond-o, Don, some others with omc experience... please

    I know this is an oddball question, especially for this forum, but some of you on here are a wealth of knowledge and have good sense as well. I appreciate any thought you give this. running a merc alpha drive with a long duration camshaft, one of the biggest problems is setting the idle low...
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    I just siphoned a GALLON of water from my gas tank!

    this afternoon I started the boat in the drive, cheked the timing and a couple of other things, ran it a bit and then decided to go the river for a quick afternoon blast on the water. stopped at the corner to top off the tank (probably put 10 gal in a ca. 27 gal tank). put in, running great...
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    diffuser ring questions...

    My understanding is that the diffuser ring on a prop (that bell shape after the blades) is to create a low pressure zone behind the blades to help with exhaust gas exit, and to help keep exhaust gas from curling back into the blades and causing cavitation. My questions are relative to stern...
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    Shift Bracket Assembly location?

    Bond-o, Don, others... Is there any reason that the shift bracket assembly has to be mounted on the exhaust manifold or even on top the engine (mercruiser alpha v-8). As long as the cables aren't binding, it's securly mounted and the wires are connected correctly, is there any good reason it...
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    outdrive painting

    there are routinely questions about different ways to paint an outdrive, but rarely accompanying pictures to show what kind of result you can expect for a given way of doing it. Here's what i did the other day and consider this a decent, but far from anal retentive job. Sorry I didn't think to...
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    intergrip and imron...

    Just redid the interior on the ski / play boat and wound up putting low gloss imron with interlux additive down and it turned out GREAT. I was shocked to find that imron has come down so far in price that I bought two quarts enough hardner for a gallon and the non-skid for under $80. If you do...
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    BLACK water when I drained the block today...

    Engine is out on the stand, chevy small block, water is black. If it were a car I'd say that had a slight head gasket leak, but am leaning toward galvanic corrosion (black aluminum oxide?). Static compression when checked a few weeks ago was 190 - 195 on every cylinder and I haven't noticed...
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    Sealing the cap..,

    my bowrider takes on water from under the rubrail where the cap and hull meet. I've got everything out of it right now for to repaint the interior and engine compartment and do some engine mods. I'm wondering how it would work to seal it from the inside. I would still seal the outside when I...
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    Who here has converted an older boat to a self bailing cockpit?

    I picked up a ca. 20 foot 1979 cruiscraft (aussie made) boat with a well made, fairly deep v hull that I'd like to set up for fishing the sound and inlets, maybe ocean (close, calm days, etc...). It came with a trailer I bought ;) for a couple hundred bucks, but when I got it home the hull and...
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    I have a problem

    every time i think I've got things just right and am ready to just enjoy boating on teh local waterways, I look up and I'm covered in fiberglass dust, smell like styrene and have epoxy and paint all over me and have no idea how I got there. I just can't seem to stop... Today, I'm out there...
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