I have a 1988 chris craft cavalier with a 3L 4cyl merc engine. I recently rebuilt the carb, which didnt work at first, and after finding an upside down manifold gasket I flipped it over and with a lot of pumping it started. I checked timing which was between 8-10* because the engine was...
I have a 2 barrel Merc carb for my 1989 Chris Craft Cavalier that I recently rebuilt. Now it wont start at all. I can see fuel going into the carb when I crank it but it wont fire. This was my first carb rebuild but I felt pretty confident in the end.
I rebuilt it originally because the...
After numerous problems with my 89 Chris Craft w/ 3.0L merc I'm finally getting close to getting ready for the water again. The dwell, timing, and idle are set correctly. Everything runs fine until about 2500rpm's, at this point it starts to lose power, and if pushed further will stall. I...
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I've been fixing up my 88 Chris Craft with the 3.0l 4cyl mercruiser engine. I finally got my dwell set to 34* (took a pretty large gap of .028) and went on to try and adjust timing. The timing was around 0*tdc to maybe even 2* retard. It ran great but the idle was a bit high, maybe...
I have been in the process of replacing my waterpump and waterpocket cover after a burnout on my Alpha One. Finally everything is back together. I started it up to run it (yes there is gear oil) and the drive is making a rattling noise, not sure how much rattle is normal as I am new to boats...
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I've been restoring my gen 1 Alpha after a burnout. Replaced the water pump and exhaust bellows, and while I had the lower off I noticed the water pocket cover was toast. So I pulled the upper and replaced that.
So now I have the lower and upper off and back together and I...
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On everyone's advice I decided to do the water pump myself. So far so good except now that I'm ready to put everything back together I'm not sure whether I use all the o-rings in my Quicksilver kit. This is a picture of my kit...
Shop quoted me $400 to replace, saying they had to pull whole stern, align w/ engine, and pump oil to gears, etc... Said I couldnt do it myself needed special tools. I have read you can do it on the boat right? Are there any special tools? I looked at some how to's seemed pretty easy. I am...
Hello, I'm new to the forum and boating. I recently bought a 1988 Chris Craft Cavalier with the Mercruiser 3.0L 4cyl and Alpha One outdrive. The boat had been sitting for 8 years in a garage. We got it running on the water hose and took it on its first voyage last weekend. Everything seemed...
