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    84 evinrude140 miss/ cough

    I've been at this for days. I'm at the end of my rope. The carbs have been cleaned twice, floats set with factory gauge, plugs and wires replaced, timed to 4 deg, 7/16 spark on all 4, new fuel 40:1, fuel pressure 3ish lbs at idle and the reeds are good. I cannot get rid of this damn cough. when...
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    98 mercury 115 idle mystery

    A buddy of mine recently picked up a sea ray with a 98 mercury 115. I runs 30-40 mph so I would conclude that off idle it runs fine. But......... Compression, spark, fuel, fuel pressure are all good. #1 and 2 mixture screws are set at 1 1/4 and timing is set to 0 (spec -2 to +4) At an idle it...
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    95, 120 jet. OK I'm at a loss, hard start and pop/cough

    .I've been through everything I can think of. Starting, It will what I will best discribe as a backfire out the exhaust [never thru carbs] and stop the motor then turn a couple more times then do it again. I can get it to run by putting the control in full start advance and cupping my hand over...
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    mercury 120 jet. 1995. odd flywheel and starting question

    I've been working on this boat for a bit now. It had blown #4 piston so I bored it 30 over and rebuilt the motor. All is fine with that (i think). All appears as it should be anyway. But within the build I saw that the flywheel had 2 broken magnets and another loose one I ordered and replaced...
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    1995 mariner CDI. no spark 1,3,5. Please help

    Just picked the boat up last week and it idled fine on land so we took it out just to find out that it wouldn't go at all.:( pulled some wires and 1,3,5 have no spark. I followed the manual and swapped the red and blue wires on the switch boxes with no change. So I disconnected the...
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    What should I do??

    O.K. this may take a second. I have/Had a 1986, 3.0L in my boat. A month ago I had the impeller break off a fin and it went into the intake side of the pump,block it off and over heat the motor. I had a 1996, 3.0L motor sitting in the garage so I swapped them out. [ now, all I did was...
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    another Identification problem

    I picked up this boat [1983, 21' glastron W/A] a few months ago, got it all done and started doing wiring, but the diagrams I have aren't doing much good. The guy I got it from says it's a 84, 225 johnson.I have doubts on this. Now I have searched the forums for ID'ing this thing and I can't...
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    planer boards ?? [tampa area]

    :confused: why dosn't anybody use planer boards in the gulf? or salt water in general. Am I missing something? is it weeds, waves, fish attacks? waddauthink?
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    castle nut???????

    1986 merc 140. alpha1 o/d converted 3.0Lx I've had this for 11 years,:D It used to shift fine [long time ago]now a days I can either get forward without grinding slowly into gear or adjust it back to get reverse the same way. It has a new shift cable,all parts are working freely, no water or...
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    1985 mercruiser, 3.0 lifters

    1985 merc. 140 hp 3.0 L I've got some noise coming from the distributer side of the motor so I've decided to replace the lifters, Can I use automotive lifters or is there some unknown differance? I looked it up and the lifters are the same for GM 3.0,4.3,5.0 and 5.7 L Marine motors...
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    mercruiser 140 cam

    I need some second opinions, I have a 1986 3.0 140hp It' had been sitting for a few years and had been started aprox bimonthly durring that time.One time the motor had stuck but not badly. finally the hull was finished and 3 weeks ago I took it out.first day was flawless,the second day was fine...
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