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  1. Rick Stephens

    Alpha One Gen 2 Shift Shaft bushing

    Scary part is, the manual has that the other way.(#14, page 4B-37)
  2. Rick Stephens

    1989 Chaparral Transom Repair

    Good advice. ​When I did my motor mounts I did four layers 1708 and then a couple layers of 7.5 ounce cloth to smooth and finish it off. Probably overkill.
  3. Rick Stephens

    New way to leak an Alpha1

    I've been sweating a little tiny leak on my newly built Gen2 with the V6. Only happens when running fast. Little tiny drip behind the engine. Never leaves even a cup of water, but has been mixed with grease last 2 trips. This outdrive and engine were completely gone through with the attention...
  4. Rick Stephens

    Compatibility '14 MCM MPI engine with Alpha1 transom and drive

    Have a friend who is repowering an older Skagit boat that has a 120 Merc in it and an old old drive.He found a great deal on a 2014 MPI 3.0L factory crate motor, a complete TKS bobtail unit. He is considering matching that up with a 1990 Alpha1 with 1.94 SEI outdrive. Alpha1 transom is 0C787939...
  5. Rick Stephens

    3.0L to 4.3L mtr mounts and 25 yo transom

    Since the motor tune up, and Gen2 installation are totally finished, it was time to get rid of the old carpet and make the interior ready to go. I knew I had a bulge in the floor under where the old ski boat seat boxes sat. Figured I'd cut it out and patch it. Floor wood is dry as a bone. What...
  6. Rick Stephens

    1989 Chaparral Transom Repair

    You can do some measuring.
  7. Rick Stephens

    Had boat in water first time today

    You need to have the correct interrupt circuit wire installed, that gets unplugged and the one in your picture installed, with black attached to positive, to set your timing. Needs to be done right.
  8. Rick Stephens

    Wet wood - do I have a disaster in my hands?

    Couple of holes per side to get an idea to start. All a stringer is is either a 2x6 or 2x8, or some glued together plywood bedded on the hull with glass and then glassed over. Like the photo. If part of it gets wet, all of it typically gets wet.
  9. Rick Stephens

    Wet wood - do I have a disaster in my hands?

    Start right here, front and back of ski locker into the stringers where you can reach. Use 1/4 inch or 5/16 drill. Go in about an inch. Careful about drilling down low that you don't drill into the hull itself. You might just drill upwards at same angle as the hull. Look at the transom and make...
  10. Rick Stephens

    mercruiser 3.0lx alpha one does it have a gear oil reservoir ?

    My Gen2 does not have the ports. You can tell a Gen1 from a Gen2 just from appearance. One easy way is where the hydraulic rams connect to the outdrive and how the bolts are arranged. .
  11. Rick Stephens

    1989 Winner 1700 Intrigue

    You go in from the inside by removing the engine. You can find LOADS of threads on doing this - here's a couple pictures of my internal repairs to kind of give you an idea of what you will find when you start digging. Underneath the fiberglass stringers running the length of the floor, is the...
  12. Rick Stephens

    Broken Starter Bolt

    There ain't a shortcut for this. You just have to belly up and start in on it. The location is about as bad as can be. I would use an inexpensive reversible angle air drill for ease of access. If you want it to turn out with a left hand drill you have to turn the drill fairly slow. I like the...
  13. Rick Stephens

    Stumbling Edelbrock 1409, 4.3l, V6

    So as noted in other posts, I just finished dropping a newly built 4.3L Vortec in my boat. I needed to lower my overall engine height by a smidgen to fit my doghouse, and the original QJet, on an adapter plate, also had missing choke parts and was pretty corroded from weather. So a 1409...
  14. Rick Stephens

    GenII weird water leak

    All ya'all ever see a water leak out around the upper gear case top cover - on muffs, on an Alpha1 GenII? I know there are cooling passages around the upper gear case, but they shouldn't be able to leak out around the top cap. Should they? No water getting in the gear oil at all. Just...
  15. Rick Stephens

    Good I/O info

    Hey Wood, this you surfing? How you find IO stuff while surfing is a mystery to me.
  16. Rick Stephens

    3.0L to 4.3L mtr mounts and 25 yo transom

    That Edelbrock 1409 showed up. Nice, easiest to work on I have ever seen. The marine version has no extra stuff needing be blocked off. I like simple. Also got the jet kit for it that matches the 4.3. Seems a lot of carb for a 4.3. I suppose like everything else, stay out of the secondaries and...
  17. Rick Stephens

    3.0L to 4.3L mtr mounts and 25 yo transom

    Big day - Motor Drop In today! It actually does fit. How about that! And making a jig to set motor mount height at 13 degrees down off transom is just right. I set the mounts to dead center and the alignment bar slides right in. My 15 yo old son and I dropped it in using the bucket on my...
  18. Rick Stephens

    3.0L to 4.3L mtr mounts and 25 yo transom

    Hooking up the electric fuel pump. I don't have the terminal on the starter solenoid that you would hook up for pump power when the starter is cranking. Wanted to check my thinking, seems correct to hook to the wire coming from the ignition switch to the slave solenoid would be correct.
  19. Rick Stephens

    3.0ltr mercruiser lx oil leak 6 o clock

    Getting a couple tools to do this yourself will be easily paid for by the savings in labor costs for a mechanic to do it. This is not a hard repair nor are the tools very costly. One rule when pulling a balancer, you MUST use a puller that has a fairly large flat bolt end, usually one that...
  20. Rick Stephens

    Perfect Seal on head bolt threads?

    I bought a donor boat with it in it. Donor boat had a newly rebuilt 4.3L V6 in it and Gen2 outdrive that I coveted enough to bring home. I got the motor running and it first blew out rust on the right side and the compression was all over the place. So I took it apart and found that PO had let...
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