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    saw a good one

    HI<br /> saw a real gem on the weekend, I was at my local ramp and there was a fisherman there with a rather large shark, now of course this created a crowd of people looking at it, and, a guy came in from fishing in about a 16foot aluminium boat and saw the crowd and got to the jetty and got...
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    fuel gauge

    I have a quicksilver fuel gauge in my boat and it has died, does anyone know if I use an OMC gauge if the calibrations are the same for the sender unit which I assume is a quicksilver. the tank is under the floor and cannot be seen or easily removed.
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    how many old motors

    Hi<br /> I have been reading posts here for a while now and it really amazes me how many old motors there are in the US, there are lots of posts from people with motors from the 50's you would never see motors like that in Australia (except maybe in some shop display) a motor in the late 70's...
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    anchored to the road

    happened to my mate on the way back from a fishing trip, we were both towing small tinnies and he had an F150 and you could not even see the trailor behind, I was following a few miles behind and I came across his boat with winch post still attatched sitting on the road, a quick call on the...
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    115 ficht starter

    HI<br /> I have a small but irritating problem with the starter, when I start the engine it sort of "kicks back" and disengages the starter bendix (just like and old merc in line 6) the other motor is fine and the starter stays engaged till it starts, which is quite fast really but the other...
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    115 ficht rebuild

    Hi all<br /> i have posted before about my pair of 2000 115HP fichts, they have over 2000 hours on them and I was going to get new motors later this year, the old ones still go great by the way, but they have a lot of hours on them, as I relly like these engines is it worthwhile to rebuild the...
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    120 looper to 115 ficht

    Hi All<br /> this may be sort of interesting to some, who knows! I had a pair of 1990 120 loopers on a 20 foot twin hull, which I had done nearly 1,500 hours, in 2000 I swapped for a pair of 115 fichts, now the fichts are 5 years old and have over 2,000 hours on them so I think I know them...
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    98 175 Johnson

    HI<br /> I have a friend who has a problem with his carby, 175 1998 johnson, he has had it back to the repair shop a lot and it is still not fixed. The problem is the overheat alarm goes off and engine slows to about 2000 RPM, sometimes turn off key for 10 seconds or so will fix problem but not...
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    bad choice

    this is rather long but has a few important hints for first timers, way back when I was just a teenager my mate and I thought we should get our own boat, so we started looking around for something cheap that needed some work, I had heard of just the thing in a persons backyard, we went around...
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    115 evinrude ficht throttle butterflies

    I have a pair of 2000 115 Fichts and on both motors the port butterlies have started constantly jammed in the closed position, the starboard pair have never jammed, to fix I need to disconnect the linkage that joins the two and spray with WD or the like and work back and forth, now seeing as...
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