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    Lower Unit Drive Shaft

    Hi: Everyone, I have a 1989 90 hp Evinrude, and the Evinrude service manual. My L/U drive shaft twisted off level with the bearing housing. Can the drive shaft be removed and changed with out pulling the prop shaft, or rebuilding the entire L/U? Thanks, Lee
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    Bypass cover hose fittings

    Hi Everyone: 1989 90 hp Evinrude. Wanting to know if the 2 bypass cover fittings under the bottom carb should allow fluid or air to pass both ways thru them? Mine will only allow fluid or air to pass thru from the screen side of the fitting and not from the nipple side of the fitting. Not sure...
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    timer base?

    Hi: everyone, 1989 90hp Evinrude and Evinrude manual. Joe Reeves timing procedure say to set timer base under the flywheel tight against the rubber stop on the end of the full spark timer advance stop screw (wire it against that stop if necessary). Being that I don,t have the timer advance...
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    Pocket core plug ?

    Hi: 1989 90hp Evinrude. I used a punch to pry out pocket core plugs. In one pocket the punch slip ever so slightly into one of the holes that allows gas to enter throat. It took out a little nick from inside the pocket core, and not all the way thru. I took a small file and smoothed up the nick...
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    Carb rebuilt..to much fuel

    Hi everyone: I just rebuilt the carbs on my 1989 90hp evinrude. Running on the hose never noticed a problem. Put it in the water today and throttled it up and it sounded like it was running out of gas and shut off. Pulled the cowl and air silencer cover off and tried to restart it and seen that...
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    high speed orifice

    Hi everyone: I have a 89- 90hp evinrude and I'm replacing the carbs with what I believe is a set of carbs off an 89- 110, 112 or 115 hp not sure which one it is. I'm rebuilding the carbs before installation. My 90 hp carbs have #56c high speed orifices and the ones I'm rebuilding have #67c high...
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    Fluke tester question.

    First of all thanks to all of you for your time in answering all these questions for me and everyone else. Your experience with trial and error sure saves us a lot trial and error problems. So thanks again for your time and experience. I have a 89 90hp Evinrude and the OMC manual. 1st...
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    Spark arcing issue

    Hi Everyone: Just installed a used power pack on 1989 evinrude 90hp. Had pulled off flywheel, stator and rectifier to clean and check for problems. It's dark out and I'm using a flash light. With everything back together, I went to start it up and noticed- looking just above the carbs, under...
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    89- 90hp power pack

    I have a 1987 90 hp parts motor with 2 power packs. My 1989 90 hp has only one power pack on it. Is there a way to install the 2 -87 power packs and use then on my 89 motor? Thanks
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    89-90 hp Plastic float chamber cracked and leaking.

    I have a set of 87 and 89 carbs for my 89 evinrude. The 87's have metal float chambers and the 89's have plastic float chambers. I don't think the chambers can be switched but the carb kit will work for both sets. Would there be any problem rebuilding the set of 87's and just using them on my...
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    Evinrude flywheel cross reference

    Hi everyone: My first post. Can i install a 1987 evinrude 90 hp flywheel (E90TLCUR) on a 1989 evinrude 90 hp engine (E90TLCEM)? Will there be any problems with any balancing differences? Thanks Lee
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