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  1. Texasmark

    Atta boy for iboats

    Going to the coast with the wife in the bassboat I bought a year ago. Coast is notorious for squalls. Figured I'd get some protection. Bought an iboats bimini top. Ordered it the 18th, arrived yesterday 29th....not too bad. Opened the box and one of the tubes had the end smashed and...
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    It's Official: Speedometer is in error

    Noticed a lot of chatter about verifying mph with GPS. Planning a fishing trip to the Gulf Coast this spring and found a $99 GPS receiver....great. Sucked it up. On the way to the lake a couple of days ago, I checked my truck speed and it was dead nuts on to the 1/10 mph.....so the GPS must...
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    Yammie 115 questions

    1. Was the V4 always looped charged? If not, what year did it start? 2. In looking at the recent sales brochure it looked like the 115 had no thermostat. Is that true? And if false (they have one) was there always one or was it recently added.....if so, what year? 3. Why does "a dealer"...
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    1954 Evinrude Owners Manual. Check it out

    More of being home bound. :'( Been surfing this site: (On the www site is: old-omc.de) for a long time and yesterday I discovered a new attraction. There is now a copy of a 1954 71/2 HP Owner's Manual for your enjoyment. You really need to take the time to read through this whole manual...
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    HP vs RPM's Question

    Weather is horrible. Non-home boy is home locked. :'(:'( Surfed the www to pass the time. Thought about upgrading my 90 to a 4 cyl. 115. If you are interested in the midrange higher hp engines you would be amazed at the offerings this year as compared to previous (maybe 5 years ago)...
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    Pay attention to the color codes

    Don't know where this goes here or in OB discussions but this is a Merc Repair point: Was in my service manual yesterday and looking at my engine and stumbled across something easy to overlook (I did......but I don't repair engines for a living and don't look in there that often). In the...
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    High performance pics; setback and engine height

    I stumbled across a sales brochure for Champion Boats over the holidays while I was at a sporting goods chain store that sold boats too. I like to brouse them (sales brochures) to see all the pretty girls having fun :love: . Believe it or not, they (Champion) even had girls driving some of...
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    Login Question

    I am on my wife's computer. I cannot login from mine. It's been a month now that I have been trying to get back to chat and haven't been able to. I'm on this forum because this one that I frequent often (when I could get in) and I want to tell you about some slick pics I found which do a...
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    iboats has a sale on OMC 4 stroke props......what?

    My curiousity is at it again. Why do you have to have a special prop for 4's? I noticed a thread from Dhadley the other day that said that if you don't keep them at or over 6000 at WOT they'll load up fast. Is there a 4 stroke message here that potential 4 stroke purchasers should know about...
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    Sometimes You Just Wonder Where People's Heads Are!!!

    Boy Son gets this used Merc. Decide to do the things you do when you don't know and a couple of other things. (The impeller has already been done.) One of the things you do is to replace the thermostats (2 ea, V6). The other thing was to replace the lower unit lube and since the screws for...
  11. Texasmark

    Do you ever use a DVM and are considering a new one?

    This is not financially motivated on my part. Listen up (if you choose d:) ). I'm retired and don't work for anyone, already have mine so what you do about this is your business. d:) I have a pretty good sized shop to take care of my farm toys....and the boat. Most of the equipment I bought...
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    Modifying existing Pee function.

    As I mentioned a couple of days ago (OB non repair disc), boy's 150 BM has the pee routed from the output of the stats (2). That forces you to wait for pee till the stats open.....not good. Found out that the (a) 200 hp BM has strong pee from the start and after talking with the owner...
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    Gear Ratio Difference Question

    We were over there talking about 2 vs 4 cycle torque on another thread and the question of gear ratio's came up. My natural curiousity got tweaked again so here is the question. I have a 90 hp 3 cyl Merc. I noticed the same numbers on the older I6 Merc engines. The gearbox is 2.3:1, as is...
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    Still Hammering on the 2-4 Cycle Thing

    Ok, have both engines. Both run about the same rpm's and both have about the same cubes....per the sales brochures. Torque x rpm's and a little fudge factor = HP. So if the 2 smacks every rev and the 4 smacks every other rev, and both have the same cubes and rpm's something has to be...
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    Hey Kenny

    Got this POS Hustler 23" alum sitting on the shelf. Boy-son is running a 21" Turbo II on a Pro craft 18' with a Merc 150. If you haven't seen a Pro, they are deep v front smoothing back to a padded arse with lifting strakes to the side (with hull steps) and the typical BB setback step in...
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    Quietness of 4 vs 2 cycles.

    Was reading on the "Optimax vs 4 stroke" thread where the 4 strokes are much quieter than the 2's. Having had a 4 cycle I/O I can attest to that fact, but it may have been due to the engine cover's insulation. I know on my engines, even though they have a cowling with foam and a plastic...
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    More on Black Max. Water discharge this time

    Seems on these V6 Mercs, the water from the heads exits via the thermostats, once they open (120F); that is, the water that's not diverted to cool the exhaust manifold which is there always; has to be or you would burn it up. So they have a 3/8" tubing arrangement that sums the output of these...
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    '95 150 Black Max therm sensor observation/wiring error.

    Was looking at the wiring on this engine; safety sensors in particular (oil/over temp). Saw a tan/blue stripe wire from the over temp sensor on the starboard bank of cylinders (head/water jacket cover) that went to a junction box and then thru the output engine connector to the warning horn...
  19. Texasmark

    Hello Mr D Hadley

    Morning D. Just came from the prop section and you were talking to a guy about engine height on a smaller hp outboard. I have observed many engine heights in the sales brochure pictures in the old-omc de/ site and they (anti-vent plate) all seem to be roughly an inch below the hull. Beins you...
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    Got something nawin on me

    Was trying to go to sleep awhile ago. Couldn't. Reason was these new hubs that folks are talking about. Been told that you have to torque it to 100 ft-lbs to get the Delrin to fully seat against the thrust washer. Delrin is a semi soft plastic; used in the aerospace industry (among other...
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