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    1961 johnson 18 hp. Should that be there?

    So I've had an 18 for years but she just got too tired and busted up. Picked up what appears to be a super low hour matching motor to my old one. I've been going through it thoroughly to clean it up and make it reliable. My question is I found what looked to be 2 o rings in the end if the crank...
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    Trailer balance questimate?

    So here it is. Just did the boat, jacking plate and motor. With the new setup the trailer is sitting at a total neutral balance. You can set it on the skeg or the tongue and it will stay. Picking up the tongue of the trailer it has absolutely no weight. I got lucky and my dad rented a dock for...
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    Insane good tower of power fuel economy?

    So I just finished this boat up. 15 foot wildcat, but pretty light since it's all new core and transom without and old coast guard safety foam. Running a last year 115 tower and a 24 pitch laser 2. Runs 60 mph on the dot at about 5700 rpm even with a good cup in the rear of the hull. So it's on...
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    Tower of power polished cowl wrap.

    So I went at this old girl that was already in surprisingly good shape for the year and decided I wanted it perfect. I went with Mercury's phantom black enamel paint and that side of it came out perfect. Can't say enough good about this paint being its from a rattle can, it laid out so smooth...
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    1986 115 tower of power cylinder wear

    Ok, so i picked this 86 115 up to go on an old wildcat. I bought it off someone i know and if he said it ran well i believe him completely. the trouble started since ive been running it on the watermuffs(just mounted it up on the boat). i noticed a water leak at the exhaust cover where the...
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    how fast ?

    Here it goes. I'm not really sure if this is a great idea or a really bad one. the boat looks to be in disrepair but i'm really just cutting a few rotten spots out of it and reinforcing it along the way, the transom and structure are still very strong. with a 9.5 and a factory prop i was seeing...
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    1954 Johnson 10 HP Parts.

    Hi. I've posted on this forum a few times before about this engine and a few others and always got a great response, so i figured this is worth a shoot. I've been using this motor about two summers now and what little rubber was left of the cowl mounts has simply turned to dust at this point...
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    Mercury KE-7 tuned pipes

    Hi i have got may hands on a KE-7 just as a motor that i can put on a sea flea probably a tiny titan, although i wanted a kg-7 i haven't found one at a reasonable price here in Canada in two years of looking so i settled for a e, i know i wont get the insane rpms out of it however i want the old...
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    need more power. 1954 johnson QD-15

    Hi. I have a 1954 johnson 10 hp that i like to run on a 8' tiny titan sea flea, all together me and the boat wegh under 300 lbs with everything except the motor. I was wondering what the best prop would be to get the most top end speed. Further more I run the motor without a cowling, pull start...
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    1965 Evinrude sportwin trouble

    Hi i recently purchased a 1965 evinrude sportwin 9.5 Hp outboard. I got the motor which had supposedly ran the year before however it was obvious it had not ran in years on closer inspection at home. The motor refused to run at all so i did a total rebuild on the carb by cleaning all openings...
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