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    3.0 merc weird firing issue, need some direction NOW WITH PICS

    I have a 1990 Cobia Spirit 180. It has the 3.0 mercruiser in it. It doesn't have a distributor like I expected it would. It didn't run good at WOT, and the tach wasn't working. With it running, I pulled all the plug wires of one at a time, and the #1 cylinder wasn't firing on the plug side, but...
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    New Boat owner!!!

    I bought a 1990 Cobia Spirit 180svr. 3.0 mercruiser. The PO couldn't get it to run right, and top speed was 28mph. After taking everything apart and cleaning everything from the carb to all the nuts and fasteners, it ended up being a faulty plug wire. With the new set on, it runs 38mph at...
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    Another, "HELP! I'm trying to buy my first boat Questions from a newbie."

    I've been looking for my first boat. my inlaws live on a small lake here in MI, and said we should buy a boat to keep at their place. We used a friends there one summer and had a blast, and it was an under powered POS boat. So now I've looked at a ton of boats trying to find one that is in our...
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