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    New Stuff on Vehicles likes/dislikes

    Still can have lifter issues though. Seen a few collapse which is concerning. All my other gm vehicles have been 6.0l engines and are running like a Swiss watch still. The L8T already has a tick. Luckily it is a company vehicle.
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    New Stuff on Vehicles likes/dislikes

    My dealer did a warranty job for a collapsed lifter on a 5.3 and replaced exactly 1 lifter and sealed it back up and called it good. I can only imagine their surprise when it came back in a couple weeks later for more failed lifters...
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    New Stuff on Vehicles likes/dislikes

    I run oil analysis along side the GM OLM (which has been in use since the late 80s) and its extremely conservative. My 04 used to run 14k miles on it and that things out there with nearly 400k miles on it. That is one of the few things I do actually set and forget. My current truck maxes out...
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    New Stuff on Vehicles likes/dislikes

    Only time I used adaptive cruise was when I learned it was practically useless with all the asshats on the parkway. With everyone weaving in and out of traffic it'll slow you down to 40 just to try and maintain whatever following distance you set. In the case of that car it was: almost can't see...
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    I spent the last 24 years driving at 29.25 miles per hour

    You have one of those that the engine hours didn't reset on?
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    I have a leak.

    I mean it may be possible. I did bead blast and strip/paint the whole thing and didn't recall seeing one... but now torqued with the inner transom plate it may not be visible. It's just odd that it was bad enough to be visible last fall and trip the bilge pump at rest... and now there's nothing.
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    Engine, Carb or Prop? need suggestions or ideas please.

    Not going to lie... that almost sounds like a rev limiter... This is me running bouncing off the limiter last fall. The merc book states its about 100 rpm above WOT which judging by the tach would be correct...
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    I have a leak.

    I'm back!!! Over the weekend I swung the engine and today I float tested. I actually weighted down the back of the boat with sand bags and got it sitting lower in the water than it normally would with the engine in... aaand I couldn't find any drip. It floated for an hour and a half. I moved the...
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    I/O (Sterndrive) Conversion to Outboards

    Merc has dual props on the 600hp outboard I think. Obviously not on the smaller units.
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    Frogs, Lizards and Wasps

    Dad and myself have been using 42/5200 for years and I can say comfortably... that it doesn't seem to work the way it used to. I also always really liked the cleaner compound and that seems to have changed as well. Their high temp double stick adhesive also seems to not work as well as it used...
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    Frogs, Lizards and Wasps

    I'm here for the eventual 3m rant. :D
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    I/O (Sterndrive) Conversion to Outboards

    I'll preface this by saying I am very far removed from the current outboard market in terms of ownership... but I did go down the rabbit hole looking into the current crop of them. My understanding is that merc really did their homework on these new ones and spent a ton of time tuning them to be...
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    MC-1 Drive Dog failure?

    Define sloppy... fit to the shift shaft or fit to the bellhousing? There is a little play in the lower for the foot to move around and align if memory serves.
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    MC-1 Drive Dog failure?

    It's 50/50 if I can get an 8mm on a hose clamp or not. The drive ones may be okay, the ones at work don't fit all that well and usually hop off... Those carb adjuster screwdrivers (the cable ones) work well for that as well. Stick a nut driver adapter in the end
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    MC-1 Drive Dog failure?

    It should be 5/16.
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    My 84 4winns horizon 195 project.

    Rolled two coats on the bottom. The hull is obviously too damaged to strip back to gelcoat... as much as I'd like to anyway, the blue actually looks quite nice on this boat. I typically don't like bottom paint but this is one of the few where it didn't bother me to be there. Before: As you can...
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    Engine, Carb or Prop? need suggestions or ideas please.

    I just wanted to add, our boats are similar in size and having the same 090m block... while I can't verify what exactly is in your mill I can say with a 1.84 merc drive I can sling a 19p up to the rev limiter. The internals should be similar for a marine engine. Obviously not apples to apples...
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    How do you trim?

    Thats like me walking into work after the "A team" worked a weekend. Never ceases to amaze me the different ways someone can find to screw up what is a pretty simple process. So I guess none of this should surprise me.
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    How do you trim?

    I think the thought of over trimming scares people too. I think there is a pretty large sum of boaters out there that just tilt down and drive around all day and thats it. Never even touching it.
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    How do you trim?

    Seems everyone is mor or less confirming that how my friends boats behave is... odd. So my exact process... I have the older MR transom that has the older style trim rams with less negative trim than what was later offered on the alpha. Anyway... 1. full down hammer down. 2. Bow pops up and...
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