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  1. dwco5051

    remove woodruff from tapered shaft?

    I would not recommend grease on the shaft as now you are relying mostly on the Woodruff key for steering control. Tapers like a Morse taper on lathe tools depend on a dry fit to stop rotation. Feedback from striking an underwater object could shear the key and cause lack of steering control...
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    Boat Doesn’t Want To Turn Left

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    Boat Doesn’t Want To Turn Left

    Sounds like the trim tab needs adjusted. Here is a video to watch
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    Mercury 850

    I was still typing I guess with raceone replied. Pay attention to his advice, he is much sharper on these motors than me.
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    Mercury 850

    I had a 76 850 for 25 years and I still have a file folder full of notes on what I had worked on and maintenance. I seem to remember that 75-76 was when the change ignition systems was. Does yours have a distributor? Was the spark checked with a gap tester and were all four about the same...
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    Mercury 850

    Are the plugs wet with fuel right after it is shut down?
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    Mercury 850

    It would help if you could tell us what year the 850 is as the ignition systems are different depending on the year. A serial number or even a picture of the motor cowling would help. Do I understand correctly that you have spark on the bottom 2 plugs only and not the top 2?
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    2000 tahatsu 25hp 2 stroke worth

    I used this on my Johnson 175 ten years ago and it held up. https://www.iboats.com/shop/brp-epoxy-adhesive-kit.html
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    Going electric vs marinas

    I can carry a extra can of gas.
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    Going electric vs marinas

    That holds true today but won't stay that way for long. I pay 99.6 cents per gallon of diesel for my pickup in state and federal fuel taxes that are supposed to keep up the roads here in Pennsylvania. When fuel sales start to dwindle I foresee a mileage tax in the near future. The same goes...
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    2008 Four winns funship sink

    Check also with RV suppliers. A lot of those types of things are used in both boats and RVs.
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    Tying to dock/reaching it

    Like every else has said it will get better with practice. Ninety eight percent of the time I am by myself but where I launch the ramp has a finger pier on each side. Make friends with the wind. If you can dock on either side of a pier dock on the up wind side. Aim for a spot a few (or many...
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    logging

    Problem fixed. I wasn't logging off on my laptop, just closing the lid. Logged off on the laptop and the office computers work OK. Now to retrain my 82 year old brain to remember to logoff before I go downstairs to the office. Thanks GA.
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    logging

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    logging

    Just got on on my third machine running xp and it seems to work right.
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    logging

    I am having the same problem on my computer with windows 10. My 15 year old Dell laptop running Linux remembers me fine with Linux.
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    Tachometer recommendation

    My choice woud be a decent anaog unit with the pigtail to plug into yourcontrol box. Installation would be a breeze. If it is a one time use to set up for a different prop then you could get by with a cheapo digital read out induction type. An analog tach is easier to monitor and would set...
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    Smallest Outboard Motor

    I still have the first 049 Cox I bought years ago. Someday my widow will be thankful for me being a hoarder.
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    Smallest Outboard Motor

    There was a recent post asking how old an outboard someone has. How about what is the smallest. This one I bought new in about 1953 or so for around $3.50 to put on a wood model of a Chriscraft cruiser I built from a kit. A pricey sum back then for a lad who had just entered his teens. It...
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    Old Sears 4.5hp outboard

    Like this;
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