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  1. Texasmark

    Amazing

    The 3 cyl was the low seller? Know why? Cubes maybe?
  2. Texasmark

    Amazing

    Well not double but a lot more cubes.............
  3. Texasmark

    WOT on startup

    Amazing. How do you get enough CFM into the cylinders to do that.....not through a 5/16" vacuum hose.....650 CFM? No Sir.
  4. Texasmark

    Amazing

    I was looking in my Optimax manual today to aid a poster with a problem. The manual covers the 115, 130, and 150 HP OM. I don't have one. I was buying a manual for my engine and accidentally bought the OM manual...later found the right one and bought it. The OM engine is a 2500 CC...
  5. Texasmark

    Need prop for low speed manoeuvres

    Take a trolling motor location as an example of what I am saying. Put it on the stern and anything will blow the bow around and you can't "push" the stern around well enough to control things. Put the trolling motor on the bow and you can "drag" the boat anywhere you want. Apply that to your...
  6. Texasmark

    Starts and runs at idle great on muffs or in a bucket - won't start at all in the lake or ocean.

    That eliminates all that. Do you find fuel around the inside of the cowling traceable back to the carb venturis? Would occur when the engine was tilted up...source improper float level or needle valve that the float controls isn't sealing properly. Under powered means deposits in the...
  7. Texasmark

    Yet another prop question thread

    As I recall Solace has a tutorial on their site to answer your questions. Running SS props, just bought a 4 blade Solace to replace a 3 blade because I wanted better control at cruising speeds and wasn't worried about top end...Crestliner 1750 and 115 Merc. I was running a Mercury Laser II 3...
  8. Texasmark

    125hp ELPTO 2+2 miss/hesitation at high speeds

    Ensure that your floats are per the manual...usually carb upside down, main support of the float is parallel to the flange where the bowl touches the carb casting.
  9. Texasmark

    20hp 4 stroke only runs with choke on.

    Don't forget a good dose of 100# compressed air with your cleaning and a little fine wire in the hollow tubes and Berryman's Chem tool for carbs and such. Little fine wire: Remove the insulation from a piece of old lamp cord.. cut off a strand. Is Copper and soft but will work.
  10. Texasmark

    Starts and runs at idle great on muffs or in a bucket - won't start at all in the lake or ocean.

    Exhaust relief ports at the rear below the powerhead should have solved that problem. Don't do carburetors is a clue to a potential problem. Do you have the engine on a boat transom (vertical) or toss it in the trunk (horizontal)? How frequently do you take it to water to run, not at home on...
  11. Texasmark

    125hp ELPTO 2+2 miss/hesitation at high speeds

    Could be sticking. due to non-use or old fuel....metal to metal, lubrication in the fuel...I don't see a wear component on check valves. You'd think the 3-4 filter would keep crud out of the line. On linkage all mine open fully....parallel. On the transition zone I think it's more of how you...
  12. Texasmark

    125hp ELPTO 2+2 miss/hesitation at high speeds

    Would you explain that sir? Is the 2000 the same engine as the 2002? My serv manual seems to think so.....like 1996 was the big change and nothing till the series was terminated in 2004-5 time line. I use CDMs connected directly to the Stators....no switchbox.
  13. Texasmark

    boats-from-usa site?

    Hey Scotty, you mean they are mining our conversations about how we play with our boats?????? Geez all the stories I've told on here about when I was a kid, like one for instance, trying to learn to water ski behind an 18 hp Rude??????
  14. Texasmark

    volvo penta trim/tilt goes down but not up

    The DC motor operates by reversing polarity across it to cause it to change direction. You have 2 relays interconnected such that selecting and energizing one, say blue for blue sky which is UP has 12v on one wire of the motor and ground on the other. This circuit requires both relays (DPDT)...
  15. Texasmark

    Starts , runs great then wont start after shut off

    What is your starting procedure hot?
  16. Texasmark

    Primer ball not holding pressure

    Back in the old days we had the Mercury diamond shaped squeeze bulb that the big guns on here said is what you needed to use and have the arrow pointing up......(probably to get the internal check valve on the tank side to close so that when you squeeze it fuel would go toward the engine). Fast...
  17. Texasmark

    Question on 30 year old boat

    You were right on the tab above the prop. Turn the rear of it into the problem area...if it goes left, looking from the rear, turn the rear of the tab to the left....from what you are saying, you may need to go full left which is probably about 30 degrees from where it is. The trim tab has a...
  18. Texasmark

    Water splashing over transom

    Several folks nailed the problem. Looking at the picture the Anti Ventilation is the black line just above the prop. It stops at the leading edge of the mid section. The next black line above it in the picture is the water deflection plate that sticks out roughly an inch "ahead" of the mid...
  19. Texasmark

    Best prop

    Maybe an inch or two higher. What I don't see is a planing surface on the boat. The hull is narrow first of all and second the bottom doesn't really have a flat surface. Get on the www and ask to see pictues of aluminum flat bottom John boats and look at that hull preferable from the rear...
  20. Texasmark

    Prop rubber rubbing

    How about you just taking a picture of the prop shaft and LU casting and then pictures of the old and new prop in the front view.....the view of that part of the prop that is closest to the LU....any hardware, washers and what all, include in the pics and explain when used. Another couple...
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