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    Alpha 1 stuck in gear

    I have a 1988 4.3 L Mercuiser with a Alpha 1 drive. Just did a carb rebuild got all the setting adjusted. Put her in the water drove around the lake, went to dock it and the drive was stuck in gear. I had to shut the boat off to put it back to neutral. I took it out again backing out it stuck in...
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    Carb gasket

    I just put a new carb kit in my 1988 4.3 L MerCruiser two barrel Rochester carb. He gave me two gaskets to attach it to the Manifold. One is completely open One has a bar between the two Excelerator flappers. For God sake‘s which one do I use spent three hours online trying to figure it out...
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    1988 4.3L mercuiser Carb problem

    Hey it's me again. My original problem was my boat was stalling after the elec, choke opened up. Runs rough It couldn't Idle at a speed low enough to put it in gear with the choke open. I had to push the throttle almost to full to make it run. So I had someone put a rebuild kit in last week...
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    1988 4.3L merc. Gas Problem

    My engine began loosing power after about 5 minutes. We decided it was a fuel line problem. Well I replace the Fuel pump and had the carb rebuilt. We found yellow crystals in the fuel filter and Carb. I believe this means water some how got into the system. I have a full 20 gal. of gas in the...
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    1988 4.3L merc. stalling

    I have a 1988 4.3L mercruiser inboard that starts well, runs at top speed well for about 5 minutes than slowly losses power. If you slow it down it will stall out completely and you can't restart it. If you can restart it you have to give it full gas to get it to chug to shore at 5 MPH. You have...
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    1988 4.3L shutdowns when the Alt. Belt slips

    Alternator belt slip engine won’t stay started Why doesn’t my 1988 4.3L mercuiser motor run on just the battery when my alt. belt started slipping. Is this normal for this engine? When I was tooling across the lake the belt started slipping and the engine kept turning off. I have a new bet in...
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