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  1. nola mike

    Wiped cam lobe mechanical fuel pump

    Great idea. Mine will die, but only after the bowl (and bearings) are dry...
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    '04 Merc 25hp dead(ish) cylinder

    So I got the flywheel and installed with no change (my torx bit sheared trying to swap the ring gear, so now I've got to drill that out...). I did get the DVA. It was giving me some strange readings before it completely failed, but off the stator I was getting 310v off one wire and 80 off the...
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    mercuiser 888 wont idle below 1000 rpm

    Did you check compression yet?
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    1989 Sea Ray thunderbolt no spark

    Sensor is pretty cheap and easy to replace
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    1989 Sea Ray thunderbolt no spark

    Extremely reliable systems. Mine is 36 years old, so...
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    mercuiser 888 wont idle below 1000 rpm

    Get a Get a timing light. Absolutely no way to time an engine otherwise.
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    mercuiser 888 wont idle below 1000 rpm

    Did you set the mixture screws on the carb?
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    mercuiser 888 wont idle below 1000 rpm

    Wow, didn't know both of you guys were bilingual!
  9. nola mike

    Tips On Replacing Starter

    Or put the phone in landscape
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    5.7 EFI stalls when warm and shifting into gear

    Have you verified that the throttle plate is closing completely?
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    '04 Merc 25hp dead(ish) cylinder

    Resistance check OK, waiting on the DVA to check voltage output. Ordered a new flywheel since I don't think enough of the magnet is gone to substantially affect the capacitor charging/stator output, but who knows. I thought that the 2 stator wires together put out the charging volts, but if each...
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    Ethanol free gas for Mercruiser

    You only have phase separation when too much water gets into the fuel. Ethanol has the ability to absorb some of this water before it separates. E0 can't absorb any water so any water that gets in the fuel is always separate.
  13. nola mike

    '04 Merc 25hp dead(ish) cylinder

    Carb has been apart so many times... It feels like a fuel problem so it took me a while to isolate to spark. 4 magnet flywheel/red stator.
  14. nola mike

    saltwater 5.0 weak points

    Nothing that will bolt to a Merc I/O I assume...I haven't ever seen anyone doing a conversion on here though.
  15. nola mike

    Ethanol free gas for Mercruiser

    I always get a kick out of anti ethanolers that act like E0 can sit indefinitely and not turn to apple juice. (I know that isn't what you're saying here).
  16. nola mike

    Speedometer

    Pitot. Gen 1's have don't have a speedo in the drive. Should have a stand alone pitot on the transom. They're pretty fragile. Google an image.
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    '04 Merc 25hp dead(ish) cylinder

    NOS Quicksilver. Be strange if both failed in exactly the same manner, intermittently on the same cylinder. Yesterday finally got out there after dark so that I could use a proper spark plug tester. Even when the timing light showed firing, the spark was noticeably weaker esp at low idle (only...
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    saltwater 5.0 weak points

    I didn't think an LS or LT was straight forward? What about exhaust/intake?
  19. nola mike

    '04 Merc 25hp dead(ish) cylinder

    No, it's got a (capacitor) switchbox that controls both cylinders and 1 separate coil per cylinder. Just ohm'd out the ignition stator and trigger, and both were within spec. But IDK if that's a good enough test. And again, I don't know if a bad trigger/stator could cause a dropped spark on only...
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    '04 Merc 25hp dead(ish) cylinder

    Thanks for the reply. As mentioned, the #2 cylinder is the one that drops when using a timing light. The switch box has been replaced. The pickup (=charge coil?), trigger, and flywheel are the only things left, but I can't see how any of those would affect only 1 cylinder? Which tests would you...
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