Friend of mine was giong across the lake with his Mercury and it died - no start. Paddled home. I told him I'd take a look. If I remember right, it's a early to mid 70's Merc. 10 HP. (Sorry about the lack of detail on that, it's been a while since I looked at it and he wants to get it going...
I restored an 18 ft. aluminum a couple years ago. The floor is marine plywood with marine vinyl over the top. I joined the vinyl to the interior sides with a bead of marine or RV goop like 3M 3500 or something like that (can't remember exactly it was but it's pretty tough stuff - takes a week...
I've got a 1976 Evinrude 15. It does not have a pee hose out the back so the indication the impeller is working is water spitting out a port near the top of the lower unit. Recently it seemed to be taking too long for the water to come out as the other engines I have start peeing within a few...
I have a 1953 Fleetwin 7.5. Every couple years I get the ambition to work on it again but just can't get it right. I rebuilt the carb and it has new high speed coils, plugs and wires. It's spotless for the most part. The compression is about 70 psi, equal on cylinders. I'm not sure if 70 is...
