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    Formula 330 SS Head Liner Refubishment

    I noticed that the headliner cloth was hanging down at the end of last season. The cloth seems to be separating from the foam backing, etc. So, I planned to do a little bit of work on it as part of the prep for this season. My plan is to remove the center section of the head liner and rebuild it...
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    1969 Mercury 7.5 HP Drive Shaft . . . .

    Yaaaayyyy . . . The drive Shaft arrived today I checked various dimensions with my digital caliber and it measures out as the same. I was a bit concerned since the parts are 11 years different and not called the same number. (45-39078 vs 45-95873) So, once the other parts arrive, I should...
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    1969 Mercury 7.5 HP Drive Shaft . . . .

    UPDATE: After much trail and effort to loosen & remove the retainer nut (aka bearing cover) I finally decided to drill into it and break it apart. . . making sure, of course that I could buy a new one. Here is the retainer nut all busted up . . . Disassembly of the lower unit was fairly...
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    Small Mercury Outboard Drive Shaft Removel Question

    I am trying to take the drive shaft out of the lower unit on my 1969 Mercury 7.5 HP outboard (serial # below in my sig). I have got the bearing carrier out of the lower unit and removed the bolt off the pinion gear at the end of the shaft . . . but the shaft does not want to come out. :noidea...
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    Bravo III . . . aahhh phooey !!!

    UPDATE: I have done a little work on the outdrives. . . . drained the starboard outdrive down and last night, removed the old bearing carrier and installed the new one. Here are a few pictures: Since I did a bunch of work on the outdrives last year, I have the tools and the bearing carrier...
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    Electro-Mechanical Trim Indicators

    UPDATE: I finished the second mechanical trim sender unit. So, now it is a matter of waiting until I have the outdrives back on the boat, and then I can install the trim indicators. Here are a few more pics . . . The 2 units . . . The mechanical actuators The electrical converters (slide...
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    Electro-Mechanical Trim Indicators

    I have been working on a project to replace the standard Mercruiser trim indicators with something that would be far more accurate. There are mechanical trim indicators available in the performance market, but those have some short comings in that they usually only monitor the lower end of the...
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    IRS wants THEIR Billion back . . .

    Well the Admiral called me on my way home from work today all upset. It seems that we got a demand letter from the IRS for taxes owed . . . happened to be related to a 529 account from a couple of years ago. After an hour on hold and then talking with the IRS, they said that we did not file...
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    Bravo III . . . aahhh phooey !!!

    The bearing carriers arrived the other day . . . Here's $800 sitting on the table :rolleyes: I'll probably bring the outdrive home this weekend so I can work on them in the garage over the next few weeks. Still pretty cold to work on the boat itself.
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    Engine swap on my old Toro Snowblower . . .

    With the record amounts of snow fall this year, here on the east coast, I have become quite the snowblower gear head. Not that I was a novice before, I just did enough to keep the thing running. My Toro crapped out on the first snowfall of the year, and at first glance, it looked to be an...
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    Claw anchor for my 33 foot boat. . .

    Well, I ordered a claw anchor, along with an appropriate bow roller, for my 33 foot Formula. The anchor arrived yesterday and at first glance I thought that I might have gotten too big of an anchor. I got the 33 lb claw from Lewmar. Boat is 9K lbs dry . . . Ocean/bays. I was thinking a 22 lb...
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    Formula 27PC Transom Work

    Yea, I did something like this, because I saw an issue with leaving the under side of the stringer uncovered with something.
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    Spring Boat Prep Work . . . Mantenance, Repairs, Upgrades

    The Admiral can always tell when Spring is upon us as I rack up many $1,000's on the credit cards with boat stuff purchases. This year is no different. Along with some surprises, I have a fairly substantial list of projects this year, both from an upgrade and a repair perspective, along with...
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    Household Electrical Wiring Question . . .

    Just to clear up any confusion about the circuit, this is the best that I can figure out, based on the wiring that I saw and tested. Circuit as observed . . . (white is pictured as gray for appearance) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
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    Household Electrical Wiring Question . . .

    This might be a question for any licensed electricians in the crowd . . . I am putting in some programmable/automatic timer switches for the summer house, replacing the standard SPST switches that were original. In doing so, I ran into some wiring connections that just don;t look quite right. I...
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    Bravo III . . . aahhh phooey !!!

    I am at the 'summer house' doing some maintenance and took a look at the bravo 3's for my boat in the garage . . . A telltale oil drip on the ventilation plate . . . oh I hate it when that happens :rolleyes: This one is the starboard outdrive. . . and I did replace the oil seals on both...
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    Decarb a Mercruiser 7.4 LX MPI

    Just catching up with this thread from a couple of months ago . . . Here is the check sum label . . . both units had the same number, so to me that would mean the same program. The only weird thing is that the number is a hexidecimal number (0-F) and it is unusual not to see a letter in the...
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    Boston, MA Area Snowmaggedon 2015 (pics). . .

    Well I think we have rivaled the 'Blizzard of 1978', which paralyzed the region for a couple of weeks. Only difference is that in 1978, it came with 1 storm that lasted a couple of days . . . this time it has been several storms over the past few weeks. I got out yesterday (after snow blowing)...
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    New England Boat Show Feb 14 - Feb 22

    I went to the boat show today . . . it was closed yesterday due to the snow storm.. It seemed to be bigger than in the past few years, taking up most of the Boston Exhibition Center. Here is the display for one of my favorite brands . . . I might get something like this some day, once my...
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    New England Boat Show Feb 14 - Feb 22

    Yup, indoors . . . here is a photo from the 2013 show . . . I hope you are staying warm . . . -10F this morning when I woke up, so it must have been below that out where you are.
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