Hi all I have water in cylinder 3 when I look at the plug... done various tests and it seems the water jacket needs changing from reading... can anyone show me what this part looks like? Some people say just the gasket others say the jacket itself will be warped so that will be needed with the...
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You may have been some posts last year about my boat never planing... i thought it was a fault but it just seems to be (after having her checked out) she hates being loaded up. I run an alpha 1 with a mercerise 120hp 1.7 DTI. With four people and no gear she planes fine... add 6 people...
Hi guys not necessarily the right area but I have made a static floating pontoon to get to the boat as in tidal. I have used 6 cube floats but they really need some ballast in them as they are all over the place. Can I just half fill them with water or will they crack when it freezes? What the...
Hi Guys - i have another question on here this is not directly related so i started a separate thread.
I bought a used mercury laser II prop off eBay for my boat got a great deal and its in a fairly good condition. When i bout it i was sure to get the Mercury one and not the Quicksilver one as...
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I have a propping question... so on paper my boat a Regal 1800 LSR 1.7D 2:1 Alpha One Leg should be achieving 42mph...
However this is what's happening now:
So I have a Solas Prop
14 3/4
21p
WOT 3800rpm / 28MPH
This is not good it meant to do 42 as I say and wot should be...
Hi Guys, i took the boat for a service a few weeks ago - its about a 20 mile round trip by water. The nearest slip is about 8 miles away anyway background over the boat is moored at the end of my garden and i noticed when i was home the exhaust has popped off (outside of the boat) from where it...
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Really struggling - this is a duplicate as wasnt sure if it should be in mercruiser or diesel section... sorry...
So i have the Cummins/Mercruiser 1.7 dti engine.
Time to service it and the manual only gives me a part number for the oil not the oil itself. A quick goole shows its...
Hi All,
Really struggling - this is a duplicate as wasnt sure if it should be in mercruiser or diesel section... sorry...
So i have the Cummins/Mercruiser 1.7 dti engine.
Time to service it and the manual only gives me a part number for the oil not the oil itself. A quick goole shows its...
Ok you may have seen i had a 50 '82 pull start that was hard to start and now has got to the point it doesn't at all...
Now i'm completely lost...
So I prime it, put it on fast idle, choked it and pulled her over 3-4 times no fire or anything. Unchoked it and tried another 20 or so times but...
Hi Guys,
Not sure if this should be in the mercruiser section or the diesel section.
Anyway I will start...
My tacho is on its way out it seems to be going nuts... when I start it idles anywhere between 4-5k (its not idling at that but tach says it it) it will jump around as...
Just had my Regal 1800 1.7 mercuriser diesel delivered this week - I got it tested prior to buying and was told she was good, got here Wednesday went out for about 2hours and she was good. I then went out flat out this morning for an hour... all good... then we were going at about 10mph for...
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After two years of flinching after everyone suggests a boat trip and having limited range ( I have an 80hp OB, it cost me the equivalent of $40 to do a 10mile round trip, no tax relief here on petrol!)
I have decided on a different route... I have my 16ft bowrider with an 80hp merc...
Hi all,
took the boat along the rivers on Saturday as it was a great day... the water however was the lowest I've seen it - only 2-3ft deep in some parts! Anyway I (as always) was going along checking the tell tale of my merc 80 (4cyl 1986 )every so often as you do (probably between 3-5mins)...
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I have a 80hp Merc '85 - mentioned a few times on here - is running lumpy up to about 2000rpm. Went to look at the plugs today - the two on the bottom carb are silver on the outside and black on the inside and the top carb is black on the inside and black on the outside.
I then noticed the...
