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    Ads,ads,ads.........

    I'm sure it's just me but... I just received my US-News for September 1st and there's only 18 pages out of 120 that don't have ads on them. I tune my AM radio (yes, there is such a radio) and the real program only occupies about 25% of the time, the rest is spent in ads. Even a lot of the time...
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    Why insure my cars...?

    Since I own about 5 vehicles, I got to thinking that it makes a lot more sense to get an insurance package that simply insures anything that I drive. That would include rented, borrowed, owned, etc. This would make sure that all registered and licensed drivers would be insured at the time that...
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    Is it just me? 900 horses...

    Wow, just read the latest issue of Trailer Boats and saw an article on quad-225hp-Hondas. Does this make sense to anyone? (I just realized that this is the April issue..I think I've been hooked). $68K for the outboards? Wow! To think that I've been enjoying an 80 hp Mercury (1972) on a "glass"...
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    V-3, can't even find the other 3.

    Hey gang, I made this wonderful to-do list which had me changing the old spark plugs on my 3.8 liter (1994) Ford V6. I changed the front three cylinders but I can't even figure out how to get to the rear three... any ideas? Do they change them from the bottom of the car? I'm dazzled..... I...
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    Keeping outside oil tanks flowing well.

    Hello Gang, My oil supply form an outside tank quit and left me burning wood to survive. Just for fun, I put a 25 watt, 225 ohm resistor on a six foot line cord and plugged it on to a 100 foot extension, drooped it into the tank and the oil flowed within 2 hours at full speed. This at zero...
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    Strange tax thoughts...

    Can any of you very astute gentle persons help me to figure out my conundrum. I'm trying to figure out what the "true" tax is when I pay through out the year until it's fully paid. It seems to me that the government is collecting interest on half-the-amount for the entire year but I only get...
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    2-cycle oil in generator?

    Good day, I'm on my fourth day without power to the house and the 5 kw generator is on it's 14th hour of running. I got to thinking that the upper lube effects of 2-cycle oil might really help the rings and valves. I just started using a 150:1 (fuel to oil) ratio as a starting point. <br...
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    Need Merc distributor information.

    I need to have some info on the guts of the distributor on a 1972, Merc 800, 4-cylinder battery-powered CD ignition system. I know it has a four lobe interupter but by measuring the <br />current drawn (12.5 ma's) I almost suspect an LED or something similar. Anyone been in to one and could...
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    Switch box needed...

    Hi, please search your "parts" bins for a switch box, part#337-441 or upgrade, for my <br />Merc 800, 1972, 4-cylinder, ser#3188000. This is the switch box for the distributor model. <br /><br />Jim Reed, jhreed@epix.net
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    Schematic (member)

    Good morning, having problems with thunderbolt <br />ignition system on 1972, 4 cyl 80 hp and you were refered as the local expert. Do you have any info on the distributor specs? Does it zero output on firing a cylinder and at what current. <br /> Thinking of trying it with a...
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    Schematic (member)

    Good morning, having problems with thunderbolt <br />ignition system on 1972, 4 cyl 80 hp and you were refered as the local expert. Do you have any info on the distributor specs? Does it zero output on firing a cylinder and at what current.
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    Switch box going going gone...

    Have a Mercury 80 hp, 4-cylinder, 1972 with the famous thunderbolt ignition system which includes the "dead" switch box and the distributor which feeds same. Being poor, I <br />wish to "duplicate" the box if possible. Anyone out there who even has an inkling what's in the swith box and/or...
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    Who knows about MerControl?

    Have an circa 1972 era MerControl and would love to know what the smaller folding-down lever is for. The main (large) one seems to shift and <br />throttle the Merc 80 hp engine. Can any of you <br />help me with this one? Thanks, Jr..
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    looking for shift and throttle cables

    Hello, I'm needing at least one and may buy two <br />of the Mercury (1972) throttle and shift cables. These are 14 feet, six inches long from end to end. If some one knows a good source to get them, I would appreciate that... thanks, James <br />Reed. jhreed@epix.net
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    looking for shift and throttle cables

    Hello, I'm needing at least one and may buy two <br />of the Mercury (1972) throttle and shift cables.
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