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    wizard wg-4

    just picked it up. seems to have good compression, but have not checked anything else. Are the coils on these as bad as the old omc coils for failure?
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    repair shops fault or just age?

    1972 Mercruiser 120 hp three years ago had the dealer replace my lower shift cable. They routed it wrong and the flywheel tore it up and they had to do it again later. Have not had any problem with it until last outing of this season. Wife took the boat out and running down the river motor...
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    1963 40hp Lark V electric shift tests

    I went out and with an volt/ohms meter did some checking on it. With the forward switch pressed I was getting 10.5 volts to the blue wire. Reverse getting 11 volts to the green. Checked the battery and it was only reading about 12.5 volts. Hooked a battery charger to it and now getting about 12...
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    today at the ramp

    My wife and I decide to go sailing today so pick our boat up at the storage facility and take it to the ramp. In the parking area we raise the mast and rig the sails then pull down to the ramp. Four ramps, but only two that allow you to use the pier to hold your boat while the car is parked...
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    1963 40 hp electric shift

    This is a follow up to a prev post. Motoring along and motor revved up like a spun hub, changed props and not a cure. I drained the lu and found milky fluid. Could this be the cause of my slippage. It seems to shift fine. Switch works good and good voltage to the wires. Prop locks up in forward...
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    stretched cable?

    1972 Mercruiser 120 new lower shift cable last year. Wife took it out weekend before last. I was in the kayak and was watching. I saw here start the motor with the drive up and put it in gear lowering the drive. When she came back in found she had no reverse. She also said at one point driving...
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    trust me to have the odd ball

    1955 Goodyear Sea Bee. 026-3603 which is a 5D11G I only have a generic manual, but according to my manual there were two lu for these years. The direct drive and the f-n-r. With the fnr being the type where you have to pull the powerhead to unhook the shift linkage. I pulled the power head and...
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    just venting

    I buy old motors usually off of Craigslist or sometimes at a garage sale and fix them up to sell. I stand behind my motors and won't sell one I think someone will have a problem with. The problem I run into is I usually deal with motors from the 50's and early 60's and people seem to be afraid...
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    not a spun hub, but similar

    three weeks ago or so I took my 1963 Lark V 40 hp electric shift out for a spin. I got about 10 miles down river and reached the Mississippi and turned around to head back. Cruising along real good and the motor revs up with the boat slowing down. So I think spun hub and as long as I kept it...
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    1957 Montgomery Wards (gale) 5hp

    anyone got a pic of what they looked like? The guy I bought it from painted it solid black years ago.
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    cuts out at mid range

    1972 Mercruiser 120 hp replaced fuel pump earlier this year and rebuilt carb. Boat starts and idles fine and top end runs great. at midrange though 2500-3500 or so it will cut out a bit. Don't notice any change in the tach maybe 100 rpm at most. It will cut out run cut out run. Not enough to...
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    nineteensixtycaddy here's your post 35 hp wiring

    ok, I don't seem to be able to start my own thread, so I'll sorta hijack this one, as it relates to my motor. I've also got an old 35 evinrude lark, with 5 wires only. two thick ones, one going to what appears to be a makeshift starter solenoid, and another to to the block. Then three small...
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    two motors one choice

    I have a 1958 Evinrude Big Twin picked up from the estate of the original owner and a 1963 Evinrude 40 Lark V electric shift. The 40 runs good and has recently pulled my wife out on ski's. I am sure the Big Twin will need a bit of work, but probably not much. It is missing the wiring harness and...
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    oh the ramp

    where we boat the ramp has gotten very bad due the to high water. With the high water the seawall where you would normally drop off passengers is under water so everyone is bringing their boats to the ramp to drop people off. Sunday my wife drops me off. Not at the ramp, but close by on shore...
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    1996 yamaha wave raider 1100

    replaced the starter and took it to the lake. ski ran fine with good acceleration. One of the girls brought it back in and said it all of a sudden got loud and was running rough. Found the rubber pipe on the exhaust riser had come off. The rubber boot had quite a bit of water in it. Put the...
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    trim and tilt bleeding?

    1972 Mercruiser 120hp Had one of the external lines leaking earlier this year and replaced all four of them. Filled the pump full of oil. Local shop here said no need to bleed it so I didn't. Trim worked fine for several outings. 4-6 went out the other evening trim worked fine until I got home...
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    weak return spring or cable

    1972 Mercruiser 120 I had occasion to have to rebuild the carb and realized I had the wrong carb. Got the right carb and when adjusting idle on it noticed the barrel on the cable was all the way to the stern and the idle screw was all the way in. The old carb idled fine at this, but in order to...
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    new sailboat any information ?

    We purchased a used 17ft day sailer. A run of the MIC shows it to have been made by Link Leisure INC out of Michigan. It is a skipper class and the model is Mariner 17. Anyone know anymore?
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    rebuilding fuel pump Lark V

    got the new kit, but no new check valves. Any tricks I need to know?
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    1996 yamaha wave raider 1100

    I am looking at this for a friend and don't usually mess with them so do not have a manual. It appears the starter is toast as it will not run when hooked directly to the battery. It looks like I have to take the exhaust manifold off to change the starter? What about the bendix? Can I slip the...
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