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  1. nola mike

    3.0 mercruiser valve adjustment

    Which manual are you using that covers everything from a 3.0 to an 8.2l?
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    Any East coasters get hit with that storm yesterday?

    It fell off the lift during the last unexpected storm and is rehabbing in the driveway 😥
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    My new trucklet!

    I came hear to say that...
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    Any East coasters get hit with that storm yesterday?

    Had a surprise storm and tidal surge come through yesterday. Our area on the river took some significant damage. My skiff, which was on the top of a 5-ft seawall, got tossed around and is a bit worse for wear. Also lost a few other odds and ends. Video posted, you can't really see how far the...
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    No Water Draining From Port Exhaust Manifold

    I've had this happen as well, I need to pay attention to what order I drain things in to see if that makes a difference. This year I got very little if anything out of the starboard manifold.
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    Need Help Installing Distributor in 4.3MPI

    This is one of them fully automated 'puter controlled ignitions. As long as the box knows where the rotor is, it can figger out when to fire.
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    Can't mate upper and lower gear housing 1979 Mercruiser 140 3.0L

    They can catch the lower seal and hold it open, or dislodge completely, torn apart, etc and end up in the gear cavity as bt mentioned in post #2
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    5.7L 1984, Rough idle at start up, then ok after a minute or so

    I'd rule out an intermittent fault to the coil pos as well. Maybe run a jumper
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    Electric Boats

    How many times have you run out of gas? I can count on zero fingers the number of times in 30 years of driving for me. How many mechanical problems with your gas powered vehicles have you had? How many issues with the fuel? An EV will end up being *much* more reliable than a gas vehicle, and...
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    Need Help Installing Distributor in 4.3MPI

    Not familiar enough with the MPI engines to give you a definitive answer, however I would stop looking at how to set up a Chevy; you're working on a completely different ignition system. My reading of that manual is that the rotor tang should fall within the reference marks after installation...
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    Second Happiest Day . . .

    I mean, I'll do it, got family in mashpee and Boston and no job, but do you want me to? 😁
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    Air Don't Freeze Winterization

    2 basic types, full or half system. A full system has AF (real stuff, not rv) through the block and manifolds, half is block only. They don't see raw water. Coolant flows through heat exchanger acting like the radiator in your car except it uses raw water instead of air to transfer heat. The...
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    Fuel pump fault

    Doubt it 🤣 Just like it says--wiggle wires and connectors and see if anything changes, indicating a poor connection somewhere
  14. nola mike

    Air Don't Freeze Winterization

    They didn't always recommend this. And if people spray off their trailers with fresh water after every use I bet they'd corrode much less. As far as the manifolds go, well yeah. You're running warm salt water through them still. And the antifreeze doesn't make them last longer, right?
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    Gas Issues

    I'll get flack for this, but you can siphon some from the bottom. That's where all the water is. Do this in manageable batches (2 gallons at a time maybe). Let it separate. Take as much water as you can off the bottom and discard. You should now have only gas. Repeat drawing from the tank until...
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    Winterizing time

    Port side.
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    Only 4400 rpms on V6 4.3 2005 19P 3blades

    Mine hit 49 @ 4600 with a 23p and a 1.84, so same ballpark
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    Air Don't Freeze Winterization

    Meh. If the corrosion from a salt water engine occurred more during storage after being flushed and sitting empty than from actually running warm, corrosive liquid through it, then fresh water engines would have the same corrosion as the salt engines.
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    1987 Mercruiser 470 manual?

    Somewhat off topic, but is it still possible to share files through the new software's PM's? Like if one hypothetically wanted to share a completely non copyrighted file that totally wasn't a manual for example?
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    Alpha One lower unit assembly

    Yeah, that's why I have it in my house...
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