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I think it’s alway safer for your alternator to discuss nnect the battery and put it on a charger to see if it comes back up to at least...

Another possible cause might be a clogged screen (if it has one) on the fuel tank pick up tube. Also look in the stickies, there is a...

People who do that haven’t had the experience of doing the same dang job twice with their own hands lol!

Those will come apart when you disassemble but my experience is they rarely leak. But I guess you gotta do what he wants but with the...

No but it means that it has to be sized in terms of amp capacity for what loads will be put on it, or else the batteries will never be...

They actually look pretty good. Are the fire rings totally intact? If so it makes it even more important to have the heads checked...

water got in somehow, do you still have the old HGs, post up a pic. Given the labor to R+R and have to do it twice, explain to him it's...

hard to say, but that could also just be the HG leaking a bit in that spot. That is where they crack though, in the cam valley. isn't...

I was thinking the same thing, no pressurized air from the cooling system should wind up in the intake.

You made a lot of progress there, report back after you find out from the machine shop if they are good or not. Did the head gaskets...

ARCO has some good tech info on their site about alternators, one thing I recall from reading it is that alternators are more of a...

The warning is valid, but the explanation is a bit off. The alternator isnt going to send dangerous amperage through the electronics...

it is really surprising the extent that mercruiser went to just to avoid installing a half closed cooling system. When my brother had a...

stainless steel isn't rust proof it just stains-less! I think if you changed your brake fluid every 3-5 years (some trailer...

Looks like a Pre-Vortec 12 bolt intake, those don't tend to leak as much as the Vortecs, which needed the updated improved intake gaskets.