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    1995 evinrude 90 hp pees at idle but doesn't when running higher rpms

    Update, I took the thermostats out again, blew them out, blew the chamber they sit in out and now getting great temps all around..
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    1995 evinrude 90 over heats

    Update, so today I took the thermostats out and blew out all the holes and the chamber it sits in. All of a sudden Im getting temp reads around 150 on the block and heads and over 100 at the thermostats housings. Seems to be fixed....
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    1995 evinrude 90 over heats

    It is new to me, I shot the heads close to the plugs and the heat alarm does not sound off
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    1995 evinrude 90 hp pees at idle but doesn't when running higher rpms

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    1995 evinrude 90 over heats

    After reading on how to determine if its a looper or cross flow it must be a looper as it has 4 carbs not 2.
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    1995 evinrude 90 over heats

    The heads shot with a heat gun over 220 I do not know the difference between the 2, it is E90ELEOC
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    1995 evinrude 90 hp pees at idle but doesn't when running higher rpms

    I installed a new water pump kit and Im finding out that the thermostats are working but the motor will get hot with them in and run cool with them out
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    1995 evinrude 90 over heats

    I put a new water pump kit in and getting good tell tale but it still gets hot. I took the thermostats out and tgey were open. I ran without thermostats and it cooled normaly getting right at 100 degrees. Thermostats closed on the bench. Put them back in and it overheats. Any idea how it could...
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    Releasing shift shaft 1995 evinrude 90

    Trying to do water pump service and cant seem to get shift rod loose. I see what needs to be done by puching the linkage twards the block but im hitting the carburetor before it goes far enough to let loose of the shift shaft. Any advice??
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    1995 evinrude 90 hp pees at idle but doesn't when running higher rpms

    We seem to be having a problem with the engine loosing pree streem at highter rpm. Its pushing a 24 foot pontoon. When we noticed it there was no alarms, I shut it down then fired it back up and it was shooting a good streem. We did this several times with the same reults. Any ideas??
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    Possible kill switch problem

    I do have a strong pee stream. I pulled it out just the other day to hook up batteries and start getting it ready and ran on the muffs for bout 15 minutes with no isues. Didn't see how warm the stream was ir take temo on the block but will tomorrow.
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    Possible kill switch problem

    We bought a 1994 pontoon last year with a 90 horse evinrude. Owner stated sometimes it will run for 10, 15 minutes and shut down, then wait another 10 minutes and it'd fire back up. The thought ut may be the pack causing this. We bought it anyway and the first time we took it out it did the same...
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    Johnson ob won't idle

    This is a johnson tracker model and it will not idle. You have to pop it into gear and push up to bout 2200 rpm and it runs out good from there. Compression is 150 on both cyl. New plugs, and actually had it idling on the muffs, that was the last time it would do that. Any advice where to start...
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    Mercruiser 260 timing

    working on a built 350 for my boat. they rebuilt it with a 78 block, flat top pistons, mild cam aftermarket heads, edlbrock intake. when I got the engine it had a quadrojet 4 barrel carb on it, ran fine. I switched out the carb for a edlbrock and when I checked the timing it was bout 2 inches...
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    1970's mercury 1150 concerns rusted plug

    just picked up this 1979 bass boat that has that tower of power on it. All the wiring looked like new, manual jack plate, shifted smooth exc, exc. It hadn't been run in 4 years sitting outside all that time but the price was right so took a chance. Anyway, took all the plugs out and sprayed the...
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    drill 4 inch thru hull hole in wrong place

    so, I followed the directions from harden marine on drilling my holes for my thru hull I bought the deverters from them. anyway they had a measurement for alpha drives and one for bravo drives. well I used the alpha instructions since that's what's on my boat, only thing I got a 454 in front of...
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    1989 mercruiser 454 mag on alpha drive.

    I picked up a 21 foot regal br 1989 with the 454 mag in it. The outdrive is a alpha one. I looked at my book and it said that year with that engine had 1.32 gears in the outdrive. The outdrive is blown in the lower unit, not sure if there is damage in the upper. My question is would it be ok to...
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    wanting to use a 1979 mercruiser 260 block with the upper half of a 86 mercruiser 260

    I have a good bottom half of my 1979 mercruiser 260 and just picked up a 1986 Chris Craft with a rod thrown. Is there anything I should be aware of by putting that top half on the bottom half of the older engine. I do see the dip sticks are on opposite sides
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    Thoughts on installing a inverter on my boat

    looking at a bestek power inverter Rated power:2000w, Max power:2300w,Peak power:4600w. My thoughts are that I can install this on one battery, plug my shore power into it and keep the battery charged as I run my electrical on my boat off shore power. Any thoughts on this?
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    1989 mercruiser 5.7 running 2500 rpm wot

    Just got this boat out on the water and the most I could get out of it was 2500 rpm. Running a 1989 25 foot Larson San Marino cruiser with a fresh 17 pitch prop. when I got it the flame arrestor was really cloged with burnt oil I assume, It was thick and black so I cleaned it and sprayed the...
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