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    Nails popping

    Hi fella's<br /><br />I just removed the carpet in the boat and found half a dozen small bulges in the fiberglass floor and a couple of them the fiberglass is slightly cracked and you can see a head of a rusty nail or something. The boat is approximately 27 years old, it is a 16ft swiftcraft...
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    Tacho wire

    Hi again fella's<br /><br />I have a 1975 Evinrude and found the Tacho wire is a metal sheathed cable ( I guess to stop interference) all the way to the engine, but in the engine it joins in a connector and splits into four and goes and wraps around each spark plug lead and is taped on there...
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    Oil on outside of plug

    Hi fella's<br />I have a 1975 135hp Evinrude and am slowly learning how to maintain and repair my outboard through all you blokes years of experience, which is saving me heaps of dollars. Thanks!.I don't know if I have a problem or not but there is a small amount of oil around the outside of No...
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    Gear box oil

    Hi fella's<br /><br />Going to show my inexperience again. Is 80w/90 automotive gear oil ok for marine gear box's or not. I have 20 litres sitting here and thought I may be able to use it.<br /><br />Thanks <br />Macca
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    Won't go in reverse

    Hi fella's<br />I have a 1975 Evinrude 135hp.I just installed a new water pump, after putting it all back together I ran the controls from reverse to neutral to forward and back to neutral and all was ok.I then decided to lubricate some of the other linkages and then ran it from neutral to...
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    synthetic oil

    Gooday fella's<br />as some of you know I'm new to the boating world so here's another decision I'm not sure about. I have just purchased a 1975 135hp 2 stroke evinrude outboard which has had leaded fuel run in it most of it's life until it was no longer available and then lead replacement fuel...
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