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    Should I Buy A Pontoon Or A Fishing Boat?

    Ok heres the deal, last year I bought a lemon of a boat (not by choice), I liked it because it was a 20ft with lots of room for the kids and wife. Well every time we were out on the water no one really had fun because of all the problems it gave us. So now I am deciding on a pontoon. I get kinda...
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    Will my outdrive fit a chevy from a ford

    I have a ford 351 with a alpha one outdrive. Will the splines of the outdrive slide into a chevy 350? Or do I have to change the splines on the outdrive?
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    Can you advertise to sell on theese threads?

    I am new here and I am wondering if you can advertise to sell here?
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    How hot should my coil get?

    Ok I got my boat idling outside right now and touched the coil. It was pretty hot I could touch it for about 5 seconds. I have a 351 with the coil mounted 1/2 inch from intake. How hot is to hot? How much of the heat is from engine? Should I space it higher? I have a problem bogging and loosing...
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    Carb ?

    I took my carb apart to clean and check its a rochester 2bbl on a 351. How many turnes out on the needle valves should I start with?
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    power comes and goes please help ford 351

    It has always been a problem but now its getting worse. What happens is when I nail the throttle its bogging and when plained out I am loosing about 400 to 700 rpms. Worse after a good 10min beat run. The strange thing is when I am plained out going about 4200 rpm throttle to the max, all of the...
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    Loss of power

    Ok I have a reman 351 about 50hrs on it. The problem I am having now and always has been a issue is I loose about 400 rpms on top speed and then somtimes it will jus kick in. Somtimes out of the hole can be sluggish and other times not. When I did motor swap I changed to electic ign, coil, new...
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