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    Winterization Question

    WHAT: I am winterizing my 6.2 L MPI MX Mercruiser for the first time. It has 3 blue plastic, wing nut style, drain plugs and 1 blue plastic vent plug up top near the thermostat. Of the 3 drain plugs; one is easy to access and is centrally located on the lower front or fore side of the motor. The...
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    Timing chain/tensioner?

    Hi Forum, I'm attaching a link to my video for your review of an intermittent startinf issue I've had with this boat for a couple seasons. Eventually, I can always start the boat, but during my attempt today to lay up the boat for the season it has became increasingly more difficult to start...
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    Starter/Battery/Stator Issues

    Hello and thank you in advance to all you great boat minds, I have a 1985 Sea Ray Seville with a 170 HP, 3.7L Mercruiser. I normally navigate the Saint Clair River in Michigan. Because it's a moving body of water I generally will run the boat at varying speeds (Not hard, but between 10MPH...
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    1985 170 HP Mercruser 3.7-Carb stays at higher idle after throttling down.

    Hi Boaters, I'll try to keep this simple. At the end of last season I had spun out my engine coupler at the end of the season. While the motor was removed, I had my mechanic also replace a leaky oil pan gasket. I never put the boat back in the water in 2012, but it started fine in order to...
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    85 Mercruiser, 170 i/o 224: Won't go into fwd/rvs, overheating.

    Hi Forum, I have a 85 Sea Ray Seville with a 170 HP 224 3.7L i/o which I love. The short: I boated to my destination yesterday and sat for 6 hours. When it was time to leave it started right up but when I went to put it in fwd in would not engage and neither would Rvs. I also noticed the...
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    Removing and reinstalling the lower unit.

    I have an 85' sea ray seville, 170hp 3.7L merc with a alpha outdrive. My question is if I remove the outdrive for maintainance, do I need any special tools for alignment on reinstallation or can I just slide the unit back in and tighten it up?
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    1985 Alpha Outdrive "welch plug"

    Regarding the welch plug on the upper gear case. On alpha one diagrams, it shows that there is a "pipe plug" which is threaded into the gear case and it sits under the welch plug which sits under the sticker. The inner or pipe plug was not present when I noticed that my outer plug popped out...
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    Alpha 1: Welch Plug blowouton upper gearcase and water below.

    Quick question. I have an 85 Sea Ray Seville, 3.7L 170 HP Merc with an Alpha outdrive which is still in layup in the garage. It's been getting warmer and today I noticed a protrusion under the sticker on the upper part of the gear case. I pulled the sticker out and stuck to it was what I learned...
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    3.7 170 hp mercruiser-Just quit and can't start.

    Hi all, I have an 85' sea ray, with a 470 , 3.7Liter 170 hp 4 cylinder mercruiser. Last year was the overhall year. New: Starter, fuel pump, rebuilt carb, coil, points, wires, rotor, cap, plugs, battery. The short of it is it has never run better. This year was no exception.....until...
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