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  1. Texasmark

    hi, i have a 2004 140 hp merc.

    If its a V6 you have thermostats at the top rear of each side water jacket cover.....2 each. The starboard side is probably stuck shut....it happens BTDT with a stuck stat, on an inline 3 cyl. 90 hp.
  2. Texasmark

    Looking for Service Manual - 2001 Mercury Optimax 150 Serial 0T304632

    I have one I bought off ebay......Serv Manual for SN OG960500 and above. Mod EDIT
  3. Texasmark

    Running outboard during freezing temps?

    Like some OMC engines of the day I guess you start them in gear and Reverse gear was a 180* swivel of the engine. I saw them on other boats running really well for the apparent HP but never got close to one. What did one do for fuel.......tank part of the engine proper like early OMCs....and I...
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    Running outboard during freezing temps?

    Mentioning duck hunting, dad had a friend from Honey Grove, Arkansas who regularly hunted the White River bottoms. I recall in some of his stories where he said that he chipped the paint on the bow of his boat running through surface ice while duck hunting. His engine was a 7.5 HP Martin with...
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    Running outboard during freezing temps?

    Well sir I live in N. Texas and I have been out fishing when the guides on your rod would freeze due to the water picked up as the line was retrieved and the ambient temp. You just bang your rod on the side of the boat, set your Abu Garcia casting reel to fee spool and cast back out there...
  6. Texasmark

    Weep hole??

    Mid 90s its time for all the rubber based parts in the engine to be replaced plus fuel filter and inlet hose and saueeze bulb. I'm, assuming that's the fuel pump and you are probably right on that one.
  7. Texasmark

    Motor vs. draft

    Weigh the contents and the boat. Calculate the area of the boat to be in the water. Take a cubic foot of water at 7.5 gallons of water at 8.3 pounds per gallon and . The boat will displace the amount of water equal to its weight. Since the hull isn't perfectly rectangular and the answer...
  8. Texasmark

    14 Foot Jon Boat Identification

    My experience with boats over the years is that the boat in the pictures is an aluminum, semi-V skiff, not a flat bottomed, blunt bow, John (Jon) boat. Over the years, no telling how many boat companies made them and with them being of the same basic design, unless a serial number or decal is...
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    Mercury Trim Switch Blowing Fuse (unusual circumstance)

    2 stroke engines of that HP (like mine) use a 20 amp fuse in the wiring harness. If you are running a 15 that extra 5 amperes could make a difference in high stress conditions...course one would think the design goal would be to size the fuse for 50% of the normal load. Increasing fuse size...
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    1972 evinrude 9.5 need long shaft or different trim?

    "The rear boat's bottom must be impeccable clean before water testing or will produce an uneven water flow passing thru the lower leg, report your findings, good luck !!" You may have hit onto the problem. I don't see the engine sitting too low. Looks like its sitting just right putting...
  11. Texasmark

    St Mary's Ohio Lake

    "The other thing is anytime we went over just to look around the chop seemed to be unreal." You can blame the shallow water for that....can't build swells in shallow water.
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    St Mary's Ohio Lake

    When I was a teenager learning to ski we used Taylor Lake, drained into Clear Lake (Nasa's Houston Facility location). It was a coastal marsh. Mud was 1'deep at least and if you fell off your skis you just stood up. Water was about 2'deep at low tide, 3' at high. Our boats were semi-vee...
  13. Texasmark

    New Boat For Christmas

    I remember the ones with the wings. Tail fins were bad enough but the wings....can't imagine what they were like in heavy seas...bone jarring for sure and whether or not the "chopper gun" glass would hold up was anybody's guess. Course on the cars, 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 2 door hard top and...
  14. Texasmark

    1989 mercury 115 ignition test

    Agree on older engines having them. First nothing...hit a stump, engine lower unit slammed up out of the water, engine went to "destruct" rpms, gravity put the lower unit/prop back in the water running at max RPMs then whammo, knock out the transom or a mounting bracket. Then comes shocks and...
  15. Texasmark

    Question about engine oil

    Probably its the additives and anti-rust would be the king pin. Course any additive dilutes the lubricity of the oil so they aren't always all that great.
  16. Texasmark

    1972 evinrude 9.5 need long shaft or different trim?

    Go to the lumber yard and get a piece of wood....HD or Lowes for a couple of sources.
  17. Texasmark

    2014 Tracker 24 DLX vs 2015 Lowes SF 214 - Help

    My first thought would be which one has the potty?
  18. Texasmark

    1972 evinrude 9.5 need long shaft or different trim?

    Never saw an engine do that. Course I never saw a RIB. Whether its purely a RIB phenomenon or something else, who knows....surely Sea Rider does.
  19. Texasmark

    is it to heavy

    I'll iterate.....get the 25 HP!
  20. Texasmark

    Used boat I might buy

    Ebbtide was in the running around here in the early days of bass boats, around 1969 when they started becoming popular. My definition of quality is that it withstands the test of time............
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