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    evinrude 60 wount stop!!!!!

    help ! i've just rebuilt my evinrude 1983 60hp twin after extensivly stripping it down. After putting a little juice in the pots it fired up and ran great until i tried to switch it off, the key and kill switch failed to work but disconnecting the fuel did...eventually. However, on checking my...
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    Pressure relief valve

    Recently stripped the head of my evinrude 60 (1983) in an attempt to find out why my tell tail is dribbling despite a new pump and found the pressure relief valve that sits just abvoe the t-stat is missing. What significance does this valve have?
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    exhaust venting from pee hole

    One Evinrude 60hp twin, 1983 model, bought this last week with a weak tell tail. Cleaned the tell tail and tube back to the head, replaced the impeller, its housing and all the associated gaskets etc, (the old impeller was new, if that makes sense) Started it in a drum with the water about 2...
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    evinrude 60, low tell tail pressure.

    I have just purchased a 1983 evinrude 60 twin outboard. I saw the engine running and intially there was no water coming out of the tell tail and was told it wount until the thermostat opens, but it didnt. Bit concerned, as all the other engines i have owned started pumping from the second they...
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