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  1. Texasmark

    First post, new (to me) boat, and how badly did I screw up?

    Check around for fiberglass repair shops. May not be a boat repair facility...may be a custom car outfit that does FG work. They have the tools, parts, and expertise........ For what you paid for what looks like a very fixable boat, you should be able to spend a few bucks to get her ready for...
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    Which deckboat 17-19 foot

    My main concern when selecting a boat is smooth ride in a chop because around here the wind always blows. Back in the 70's "Deck Boat" I think was the brand that had a flat hull with a suggestion of a V at the bow. The ride was brutal!!!!! Later somewhat Veed hulls became available. Other...
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    Cut Holes for Improving Engine Access

    My I/Os had a removable engine cover...top, sides and front, that just slipped in place, weighed about 50#, easily removed, or just tilted forward out of the way. Hinged front would work for the above if you wanted to secure it. If seats are in the way (driver and shotgun) with a couple of...
  4. Texasmark

    The newest outboard from Mercury

    ......or 5 or 6....the Miami boat show is the classic.
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    Yamaha or Suzuki Motors.-

    Suzuki and Yamaha have both been in the 2 stroke business for decades. Rumor has it that Yamaha followed the OMC design when entering the market...forget the year. Don't know the Suzuki background. Yamaha seems to be a wider market but I have heard some "gee I want to buy one" desirable...
  6. Texasmark

    2004 Mecury 90 hp wont start

    In Roscoe's solution, the "kill switch" is an ignition killing switch at the operator's station that is made for a lanyard attached to your person while operating the boat....if you have the lanyard attached and fall overboard, the boat stops. If his starting procedure doesn't work: You said...
  7. Texasmark

    Steering

    Question was answered but a little extra: Back in the 50's when Lone Star Aluminum boats were in my boating circles, cable steering was the norm with the drums under the dash and if a runabout, a cable usually went down each side of the boat attached at the front and rear with pulleys, a pulley...
  8. Texasmark

    3 Blade or 4 blade prop?

    I was running a 3 blade 20P early edition Laser II which would run 48 on calm water, summer heat. As you are talking here, I like to run around 3000 RPM and 25 mph most of the time so I bought a Solace 4 blade 19P. I lost 3 mph of top end (and some RPM) which I don't miss (because I know I can...
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    08' Merc 90hp --Ditching The Oil pump/going mixed fuel..

    I removed the automatic oiler in my 2002 90 hp. It was really complicated......I undid 3 screws holding the pump in place and temporarily disconnected one oil line attached to it to get the pump out where I could grasp the geared drive shaft and pull it out.....which I did. I put the hose back...
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    Boat going in reverse instead of forward

    Thanks for the intro but I can only try to help. Force (Mercury Marine product) was initially a West Bend, then Chrysler, then early model Force...Mercury's low ball market entry, and later incorporating some of Mercury's parts/designs. I don't think it was ever intended to enter the up scale...
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    1985 Mercury 85hp (4 cyl) runs great for 20 minutes then boggs down

    Test them. Get a container of fuel and set the float in it with you propping up the pivotal end like happens in the carb. If plastic, it ought to float like a cork on your fishing rod...right on top of the fuel since objects displace their weight in a liquid and a plastic float is near...
  12. Texasmark

    Used Outboard Sites and Replacement Advice

    The John/Jon is defined as a flat bottom boat.....popular in rivers and protected waters. Aluminum Johns are about all that are available in my boating circles so you have a light weight boat with an excellent planing hull...nice and flat, especially at the transom, on a light weight boat. I...
  13. Texasmark

    Is My Mercury Prop Spun?

    Other than the binding problem, how did it perform?
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    Is My Mercury Prop Spun?

    I/m guessing that your gear ratio is 1.76 on that engine. Here is where you are: https://www.go-fast.com/Knowledge-base/Find-your-prop-slip/Prop-slip-calculator Something isn't right.....way too much slip as you should be up around 55...
  15. Texasmark

    1985 Mercury 85hp (4 cyl) runs great for 20 minutes then boggs down

    Moving right along. Marine carbs these days are real simple. The moving parts are the low speed adjustment screw, float and needle valve. The adjustments are the float level....usually with the carb inverted, the seam on the float is parallel with the top casting mating flange. The low speed...
  16. Texasmark

    Drain plug confused

    I had to laugh at your "Sheer Pin" comment. Back in the day my boating circles called the pins "Shear Pins" also since they sheared at the most un-opportune moments....course anytime wasn't wanted. Optomistically the OEMs referred to them as "Drive Pins".
  17. Texasmark

    1985 Mercury 85hp (4 cyl) runs great for 20 minutes then boggs down

    Get one that attaches to the battery for power, vs one that plugs into an AC wall socket. Get a helper to drive while you sit by the engine and monitor the spark. When connecting the high voltage clip, observe that the direction arrow on the clip, points toward the plug as indicated. If the...
  18. Texasmark

    Engine Re-power

    You must have lucked out with your prop selection. Having 200 additional pounds of weight at the transom is surely a force with which to recon on hole shot or getting skiers up and on the water. Glad it worked for you.
  19. Texasmark

    '94 Bass Tracker handling question

    Your biggest problem will be getting pounded to death if you are in any kind of chop and are running at any kind of speed...my last boat was like that, 17 1/2' Fishmaster with a 90 Merc......pictured in my Avatar. In big water just slow down and keep the bow up, finding the approach angle that...
  20. Texasmark

    Drain plug confused

    I had a 1960s 14' Taylor Craft fiberglass open runabout of identical construction. It differed from your boat in that there was a plug at at the bottom of the transom into which a "thermos bottle" plug (common drain plug) just above the deck for draining the interior of the boat either underway...
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