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    Outboard exhaust drifts towards cockpit

    My guess is I would still have the exhaust issue with a 4stroke?
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    Outboard exhaust drifts towards cockpit

    " The boat moving forward creates low pressure behind the windshield which pulls smoke into the cockpit." That makes sense. When I install the enclosure and vent air front to back its much less noticable.
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    Outboard exhaust drifts towards cockpit

    Wondering if anyone else has this problem and if there are modifications to redirect the exhaust away. Boat is a 1996 Seaswirl Striper 1850 with a 99 Oprimax. Even with no wind blowing and vessel moving over 5mph the exhaust seems to draw towards to cockpit. I don’t know if its a boat or...
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    For Sale / Wanted

    Is there a for sale and wanted section in the forum? MOD EDIT No - Check the Rules. Sorry.
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    Replace steering rack with NFB or original?

    I need to replace the original Teleflex rack and pinion steering rack on my 17? bowrider. It has a mercruiser 3.0LX Alpha 1 Gen 2 without power steering. I would like to spend a little more for the Teleflex/seastar No Feed Back (NFB) option but the descriptions are a little confusing. The NFB...
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    Lead Ballast

    Found this on a rocky gravely shore in Beverly. First saw it years ago but only the fiberglass part was showing. This years storms exposed it enough to recover it. The fiberglass was attached to the lead with large copper nut/bolts. I'm very curious of its history but know nothing about it...
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    1993 Evinrude 140 - Low RPM issues.

    I have a 30 min ride at headway speed (1200 RPM) before I can throttle up.Usual WOT rpm is about 4400. I don?t know why but occasionally WOT kicks up from 44 to 5100 on its own. So yesterday at WOT it ran at 4400 rpm for about 5 minutes then sped up to 5K. A few minutes later she suddenly...
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    Plastic molded seats with broken support hole anchors

    The anchor mounting holes on the bottom of my molded plastic seats are broken and I cant attach it to the pedestal securely. I see almost identical seats at west marine for a decent price but they dont have the mounting holes where I need them. I'm attaching a pic to help explain. Going to try...
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    Can a stripped trim cylinder be repaired?

    I have a stripped front hole on the port trim cylinder of my 1993 3L mercruiser with Alpha 2. Can it be rethreaded or repaired or am I going to have to get another one?
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