Hello-
I am trying to put the old girl back together. While clamping the cooling hoses back in place I noticed a couple of hoses to the carb looked out of place. One is a black one that fits perfectly between the valve cover breather and the carb. The other is coming out of the choke and heading...
Happy Memorial Day!
We took the boat out for its first run of the season yesterday. I replaced the coupler and the rear mount bushings back in 2009, using an alignment tool and advice from here and other places. I got somewhere around 30-40 hours on the replacement. As we were doing a...
Hi Folks-
140 Mercruiser, 16' boat, 14.25 x 17 and 19p props. Boat cruises mostly and occasionally launches a tube or wakeboarder.
the 17p is missing a couple pieces from last season, the 19p is currently installed and has been "rolled" in a couple places along the old repair weld metal...
While troubleshooting an ignition problem for hours on an early 70's Mercruiser 140, I "let the smoke out" by hooking up coil minus/distributor lead to the solenoid and ballast wire. Most of the damage was the insulation heating up on the tan solenoid wire. I also saw a little puff at the...
Hello Silverliners!
I thought I'd post up about my boat. It's a 1971 Silverline 165T Comoro.
Previous owner redid the carpet and upolstery, not really stock but functional. The back was redone from jump seats to a 1-piece sundeck, similar to the Samosa option in the catalog. We enjoy the...
While trying some nighttime boating without the plug, motor got a bath and took in water probably at the rear seal or rear oil pan gasket. Yes, I am at fault. Yes, it was that deep. Yes, I knew there was some sort of oil leak there when I changed the coupler but figured that I would never...
Hello,
I am finishing up replacing the engine coupler on an early 70's vintage Mercruiser. I did the motor mounts and coupler as people here suggested, as well as made an alignment bar per the sketch from Don S.
I have taken the front mount up and down to the point where the bar will not go...
Ahoy!
Could someone educate me where the best places to attach lifting points to a 140 Mercruiser (GM I4) engine? There is one eye tab bolted close to the valve cover on top in the front, but something tells me that without two or three places of attachment that the engine will rotate and not...
