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My 4.3/Alpha One powered rig is becoming increasingly harder to get into neutral, requiring more "jiggling" to come out of gear. Starting is not an issue, nor is not staring once in gear so the switches are being made jut fine. My thought was to spray some lube into the shifter housing. The...
I have got down to the short hairs on my next boat and the only thing left to work out is whether I buy a newer jack shaft model or no. So to anyone having experience with the jack shaft model or even better with both - do you find the mid cockpit engine box more or less bothersome than the...
I have a solid and very fine running 4 bbl 4.3 rated at 205 hp that cruises my rig at 22/23 knots current/wind depending @ 3400 RPM. Now that is plenty fine performance in a heavy deep v hull but on the ice cream days I would really love to be able to cruise around 25/26. My feeble brain thinks...
