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    55773d exhaust cover/gasket leak

    Hello fellow johnsonrude's..I have a 1977 55hp evinrude 55773d. I have had this motor for about 3 years now and I love it! It doesn't push my pontoon quite as fast as I would like but I love the engine and can't bring myself to replace it. it has in the last couple of outings been really hard...
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    help identifying this mid 80's evinrude

    so I have a 1977 55hp evinrude on my pontoon and I love it but you can always use more power right? so there is a guy close to me who wants to sell his mid 80's 90hp, actually he wants to power down and trade my 55hp for his 90, too much weight is my assumption, it's on craigslist and I don't...
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    pontoon rebuild 3 battery question

    ok so I'm trying to understand how to set up my batteries, i have an 80# thrust 24 volt trolling motor, 25 amp amplifier, fish finder, phone charger, nav and stern lights, and a set of head lights. not all running at the same time, but I will be trolling and music and occasionally trolling...
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    Rebuild of the 20 Ft Pontoon, Jolleen's Hole

    Hello friends, I'm starting on my 20 ft pontoon rebuild. I have spent a lot of time on this forum reading all your information and now it's time for me to start my own project. I have many questions and many problems with my toon but she fishes great and my wife and I plan to have many more...
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    1977 55hp trying to change from side controls to binnacle

    howdy fellas, I'm new here but I just bought a new to me 1977 evinrude 55hp. it came with side mount controls, I also bought a big nice center console for my 20ft pontoon, so what I'm trying to do is set it up for binnacle controls, looks like brp has a really nice binnacle but it says that it...
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    2001 merc 25 hp running problems

    this is a two stroke motor that sat up for a while, then I took somebody out on it and it wouldn't plane, which it normally does like a champ. motor seemed to slip out of gear, and rev really high when wot, I was told it might be the carb(probably the prop hub after much reading on this site)...
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    2001 merc 25hp 2 stroke won't plane

    We'll I'm new here and I'm not a boat mechanic, but I am mechanical and want to learn all about my motor. It's a great little motor and it has always run fine, I push a 16 foot jon boat and we load her down and still plane and move out, so now as I increase speed and just before she planes the...
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