Working on the 1988 Sea Ray 16' Seville with mercury 100 OB. In restoring this puppy, I was working the throttle/shifter and noticed it was hard to move. Looking the OB over I noticed that the shift rod leaves the powerhead in about the center of the shift tube. At the lower unit the rod...
As my restoration project moves forward, you will see me posting the issues in hopes that it helps others.
Boat has it's original 100/115 Mercury OB on it with a non-working trim motor. I did the basic diagnosis of testing the trim switch on the controls. This is a three wire setup using...
Hi everyone, Boat is a 1988 Sea Ray 16 ft OB Seville. As I'm going through it getting it back on it's feet, I refilled the steering on the original Sea Star I system and had noted that oil had been on the carpet under the helm. Boat sat for 14 years. Using the correct Sea Star steering fluid...
Hi guys, First post here, forum looks great and has helped a ton already.
I picked up a 1988 Sea Ray Seville with the 100 Merc outboard on it. Original owner said the 88 was a transition year and actually the motor was a 120hp with the 100hp cover. From what I can find it looks like 88 was...
