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Ok so I am hoping someone can help with this issue I replaced the sending units the season before last and the gauge seemed to work fine last year. When I got everything running this year it stopped working, the gauge is all over the place, no matter how much I moved the trim up and down. I...
I have a 1990 Sea Ray with a Merc 5.0 and a Alpha One Stern drive. A few years back it was leaking oil, blue in color I believe, out of the lower unit through a hole near the bottom of the unit. I started doing it again this year over the winter. I was going to take it to the marina and have...
I have a 1990 Sea Ray with a 5.0LX Mercruiser Alpha One. I had some trouble with my gas gauge a while back and bought a new transducer, level indicatar (I think that is what it is called, the thing in the tank). It never really seemed to work last year, so I took it out this year and measured...
I was hoping someone could help me with my seems to be weird issue. I have one of those portable pumps/inflators to pump up tubes. Last time I plugged it in it did not work. I tested the cigarette lighter/power port and I got 12 volts. I plug my phone charger into it and it works fine. I...
I have a 1990 Sea Ray with a 5.0 L V8. It also has a Lowrance sonar as mentioned above. The other day the display started jumping back and forth between 0 and other numbers was too quick to see what they were, and the alarm was going off. Does anybody have an idea what the problem is? Could...
I was wondering if anybody know where I can find a wiring diagram for the above mentioned motor. It is equipped with a dual battery setup...I only used one battery this past season...it had three black wires of varying sizes..assuming one is a ground. I found a positive coming off the switch...
I was winterizing my boat over the weekend and just wanted to make sure I put enough antifreeze in my engine, I have a 1990 Sea Ray with a 5.0 L. When I talked to West Marine they said about 4 to 5 gallons of antifreeze would work. So I put 4.5 gallons in the jug, started running it through...
Was wondering opinions on what on should do with the stern drive oil over the winter..I know I am supposed to check to see if there is any water in it, but do I drain it and put new oil in when I winterize or do I wait till the spring and just change it no matter what.
