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  1. nola mike

    What are these?

    ^ yes.
  2. nola mike

    Help! I need to know what I got!!! Lol

    cool looking boat. image search with a few close hits, https://boats-from-usa.com/galaxy/beautifully-restored-galaxy-pleasure-boat-34940
  3. nola mike

    Rattle when in gear

    Smell whatever's in your bilge. Gear oil is very easy to distinguish from motor oil. It can also be leaking into your drive shaft bellows (and possibly then back to the bilge). Unless you can definitively find a leak at the reservoir, your drive needs to come off. Sometimes things like to give...
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    Rattle when in gear

    Protip: when your boat starts making bad noises and critical fluids are disappearing, the solution is almost never to give it more gas while overloaded and pulling tubes. Hopefully you didn't toast the drive. Pull the drain plug and check for metal
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    No Spark on 1988 4.3 ltr. engine

    you should have battery voltage at the coil. this needs to be corrected before proceeding. a first cheater step would be to jumper a wire to the coil pos and see if you get spark then (note that you'll need to disconnect the jumper to shut down the engine if it starts, or put a plug or spark...
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    Tune up problem

    if you can't get them out, drill them out and replace with a machine screw/nut
  7. nola mike

    Oil in bellows questions…

    and you can find the wrench for around $50
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    MR outdrive - no reverse after changing lower shift cable

    unless it's warranted.
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    MR outdrive - no reverse after changing lower shift cable

    does it shift into reverse with the cable disconnected?
  10. nola mike

    5.7 Mercruiser stalls out

    it doesn't need to be at tdc to time it. it does need a timing light I think only the delcos are plated, right? you can get plugs at the auto part store. you aren't really tuning the carb. you're setting the idle mixture. many ways to do it, easiest (though not best) way is turn screw in until...
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    Mercruiser 4.3L TKS 2BBL Carburetor Engine Sporadic Behavior

    I can't hear whether that's idling normally at any point, but in both videos you have intermittent spark well before it stalls
  12. nola mike

    12v boat hoist motor

    sure.
  13. nola mike

    steering cable?

    you'll be screwing with that thing until you eventually replace it anyway. there's a graveyard of threads with people trying to clean a cable unsuccessfully, or more likely partially successful... for a while
  14. nola mike

    4.3LX TB IV timing advance issues

    8' initial, 22' total @2500 rpm
  15. nola mike

    Belts for 4.3 V6

    nothing special about the belts. auto works just fine. here's my alt belt, Gates 7345 XL High Capacity V-Belt https://a.co/d/7BYxjJh can't find the other. measure the length with a string and go to your FLAPS.
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    12v boat hoist motor

    Here's my thread on my setup. Are you talking about this setup? https://www.boatliftanddock.com/product/706/lift-mate-dc-12v-wheel-assist-motor Very different than what I ended up with. You already have the lift? Looks like it was made for 12v, and 13a is a lot less than the 30-60a per motor...
  17. nola mike

    where to connect vaccum gauge?

    huh. never heard that one.
  18. nola mike

    Only goes 20 MPH

    because it's loud and obnoxious
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    Dribble of oil at prop, usual suspects checked, now puzzled

    I have a length of tubing with a schrader valve on one end and gear lube fitting on the other and use a bike pump to pressurize. no need to make it complicated.
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    Replacing U-joints Alpha one gen 1

    I have found a hammer to be much easier than a clamp/press on these
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