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  1. dingbat

    E150DCXSCR 2008 150hp

    There is separate 1-3 gallon oil tank. There is a primer bulb on the oil line. Remove oil line from motor and prime using the primer bulb. Once you get oil to the pump reconnect and your ready to go. Run premix in the first tank of fuel to make sure the oiling system is working properly...
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    2016 Mercury Optimax 150 Pro XS Reviews?

    The Opti is quieter than a carbureted 2 stroke and louder than a Yami 4 stroke. Opti are good motors but I’m done with $30 a gallon oil. When my current motors dies I’m going 4 stroke
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    Hull form versus engine power and torque In maintaining a boat on plain

    Running an under-sized prop is counter productive. Your leaving much needed Horsepower on the table by limiting the output of your motor through prop selection.
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    Trolling Motor Wire Step Down

    BTW: 4 gauge is larger than 8 gauge wire ;) Anderson connectors work great in these situations. They use "solder cup" contacts (pins) so there is no problem mismatching wire sizes. Just select a connector contacts that fits the larger wire of the two...
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    Hull form versus engine power and torque In maintaining a boat on plain

    Plain and simple….hull design determines planing speed. A hull gives x amount of lift for a given planing surface. If the boat is designed to plane at 10 kts. It doesn’t matter how you get to 10 kts. Only that you get there. To change… increase planing surface or decrease weigh per given hull...
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    Transducers and Hull Thicknesses

    Assume your installing an advanced “rock on a string” depth finder. Not getting by with the poor acoustic properties of silicons and sealants on a fish finder type setup. Too much signal lose and frequency shift. Then there is the issue of compensating for deadrise. An uncompensated deadrise...
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    1990 Force....couple issues

    Here is what you want. https://www.fuelhoseziptie.com/ Zip tie guns are the easiest means of tightening a tie but grabbing the tie with the side of a pair of needle nose pliers right where body comes out of the head and twisting/rolling the pliers, using the head as leverage, works just as...
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    Cannot find the right propeller 225 OceanRunner

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    Cannot find the right propeller 225 OceanRunner

    What props are you looking at? I’ve had no issues finding props for my 1997. Don’t remember if I had to change thrust washers or not. Used Merc Flo-torque hub in a 15x15 Merc Enertia. Hub looked long until you torqued the nut down on the shaft to seat the hub in prop
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    XD50 vs XD100 in mid 90s 3 cyl

    with that being the case you might want to look into Pennzoil Premium Plus as well. I buy PPP at my local auto parts store for $18 per gallon. PPP is my oil of choice if I can’t get a good deal on XD 50. I see no difference between PPP and XD performance wise. Ie smoke, smell, etc. PPP...
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    2017 yamaha 300hp 4stroke stalls on slow acceleration or deceleration

    Moving the throttle is common to both situations. I would check for a flakey shift switch or whatever mechanism they use today. I would also check to see if you didn’t have any loose or chafed wires in the throttle
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    XD50 vs XD100 in mid 90s 3 cyl

    I buy XD 50 for $30 per gallon on case lots. Would love to find XD 100 for $15 a gallon
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    1999 Caravelle VDO Speedometer

    Are you sure that assembly went to the speedometer? Upon closer inspection it looks like a transducer with a paddle wheel. Are you sure there wasn’t a fish finder onboard at one time? How many pins in the connector? Be easier and probably cheap to just replace with a GPS Speedo of the...
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    Autopilot set-up for Alpha 1 Gen 1 outdrive

    I troll on AP with my main motor at 2-7 knots. Quite often under less than ideal conditions. No way I could manage the trolling spreads I pull w/o a bit of help. Unfortunately, none of the inexpensive APs will do very well when push comes to shove. A $1,200 Chart plotter add-on isn’t going to...
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    Transducers and Hull Thicknesses

    There is no limitation on hull thickness per say but you must install the transducer in an area with nothing but solid fiberglas between the puck and the water. Even voids in the fiberglass will cause problems. To test your proposed installation site: Put transducer in a ziplock bag full of...
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    Experience of Turning Point props? Prop failures?

    Not saying it’s not a casting flaw but cavitation (prop burn) manifests, looks like air bubbles as well.
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    Engine hour meter and depth finder

    Pretty sure you download hours and rpm from the ECU. Perform PM on an annual basis and the need for said meter goes away. Do you want digital depth (gauge) or a chart plotter/fish finder? Budget?
  18. dingbat

    Power Steering high pressure hose coating flaking off

    You can tell from the picture that the hose jacket is crazing, the telltale sign of dry rot. Like anything else hoses deteriorate with age. Never use hose near or over 10 years from the date of purchase or hose that is past the manufacturer’s use by date
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    4.3 blows 15a fuse when you throttle up

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    4.3 blows 15a fuse when you throttle up

    You have a short to ground in a “wet” location. The bilge pump circuit would be my first guess.
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