Recent content by JerryIrons

Greetings all, just thought I would post the leak I found in my lower unit, kind of interesting to some of us maybe. Last summer I started seeing evidence of water intrusion in my outdrive gear oil, the color started changing to light green when I changed it. Not too bad, but clearly water was...

I have a small oil leak that has progressively gotten worse, right where the elbow screws into the oil pan. (the other elbow end holds the dipstick tube) After some troubleshooting, I discovered that the bracket that holds the top of the dipstick tube to the engine hook has broken, allowing...

As part of the 470 owner club, I am in the process of changing out my water seals and putting on speedi sleeves to fix a leaky weephole. According to the manual, "both water pump seal lips face water side". I'm under the impression that this means both seals are installed facing the same...

I have a mercruiser 170 engine that I have been doing a lot of work on. I never even saw a point or condensor before I got this boat, so this has been quite an education! According to the merc manual, the distributor advance curve says that the total advance spark, minus initial timing should...

Hi everyone, Just wanted to mention that I picked up my first boat ever recently (last year), a 1986 Dynasty 19' cuddy with a 170 mercruiser engine in it. It had a few problems with it, lots of bad chalking and a problem going into reverse that I was able to fix myself, in large part due to...