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  1. nola mike

    Weather analysis for nearshore fishing

    You should know your area better than us. I'm guessing your weather down there always calls for storms in the pm, and they're hit or miss and hyper local. Like us during the summer. If I'm out in the afternoon I keep an eye on the sky and on the radar. If there's a big front coming through...
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    Bad coil?

    How do you know it's getting richer? Intermittent/non firing cylinders will get you unburnt gas in the exhaust
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    Quit My Job . . .

    The key is getting to work little enough that it doesn't feel like work anymore, just something to kill the time for a bit
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    Quit My Job . . .

    This sounds suspiciously like unretirement.
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    Tb IV intermittent spark ?$#???

    no
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    I don't think the heavy stuff is gonna come for quite a while...

    The boat will live to see another weekend. The surge was still a foot or 2 from the bottom, so would have taken a good bit more to actually float it off there I think. Maybe 15 or so other boats on lifts around me, I think that jet ski was the only casualty. House damage limited to some lost...
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    Mercruiser 3.0 Trouble Starting

    So you don't have any power to #5 on the female side of the plug, but do at the gauges? Find the common point of your purple wire under the helm. They daisy chain off the gauges and eventually one goes from the helm to the cannon plug in the stern. Would be strange that you had spark before...
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    I don't think the heavy stuff is gonna come for quite a while...

    Yikes, we're only mid-tide. I don't think I can handle having my boat take another dunk. A little duct tape and she'll be fine One of many newly ventilated piers:
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    I don't think the heavy stuff is gonna come for quite a while...

    Neighbor's jet ski 😳
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    I don't think the heavy stuff is gonna come for quite a while...

    Next high tide 8p, might get a little sporty.
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    Quit My Job . . .

    Mine isn't. You're doing it wrong.
  12. nola mike

    Wiring question for 4.3l Merc

    If he's got power to the alt, the problem is after the plug...
  13. nola mike

    89 Horizon 180 with stock 4.3 upgrade questions

    On behalf of everyone trying to give you good advice...I apologize. Flywheel and/or coupler may be different, rear mounts may be different, front mounts will be different...I'm sure you'll find more problems as you get into your "cheap" project. If it's me, I pull a wrecker 350 for that same $200.
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    Wiring question for 4.3l Merc

    Should be a common take off point for the purple somewhere, not sure where on the TKS. You'll have to trace the alt purple back...
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    2003 Mercruiser 4.3 TB-V No Spark

    This is a 3 wire hall type "pull down" sensor. ICM uses a reference voltage, and there's a signal voltage through the sensor. When the signal wire is grounded to the ICM, it thinks the switch is closed (signal voltage is pulled down from 5v-->0) Can't quite picture this, but the sensor ground...
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    Wiring question for 4.3l Merc

    Yes, with ignition on. Check the purple wire at the OP switch. Should have 12v. If not, check coil (+). Should have 12v off purple wire there.
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    Buying a used boat with Mercruiser 228

    I would add that I'd pop the top cover off the outdrive to get a quick look at the condition of the upper gears
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    I'm stumped, overheated 4.3 MPI, water in oil, replaced heads, still water in the oil

    .005 was milled, don't think he was referring to the flatness
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    Buying a used boat with Mercruiser 228

    It almost certainly doesn't They're all water cooled. Some have auto style closed systems running antifreeze, most don't. Echo the others, transom/stringers are most important. Drilling a core sample is the only reliable way to test the wooden components. Hammering, tapping, etc are fairly...
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    . . . and I Thought Hi-tech Boat Engines Were Bad . . .

    Thought he was talking to me. How/why did you need to register? Mine was still recognized as having been changed in 2020 and listed the same parameters.
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