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    Closed cooling worth the money?

    The freshwater kit helps extend the season too. Usually just have to drain the exchanger if you're into that kind of stuff... not that it's hard to pull the plugs normally but one point is easier... Not as easy as an outboard... but still better.
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    Got a new toy to test out eventually...

    The only shot I got is from like 12 or 14 years ago. All I remember is I was running about 24 mph. Don't remember if I was testing props that day and if memory serves slight positive trim... which makes sense at that speed as I wouldn't be carrying enough speed to really lift out the whole boat...
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    Got a new toy to test out eventually...

    Sounds like I have testing ahead of me. All else is bs and I can't test until I finish up working on the damn thing lol. And for the record, I typically run pretty much at neutral trim. Maybe slightly more depending. That's typically worth 300 rpm and 2 mph getting to neutral. Anything beyond...
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    Got a new toy to test out eventually...

    I'd actually be curious to see how much more it lifts it... I haven't seen it to confirm, but I've been told very very little of the boat is actually in the water. It sure feels up and out. Like I said... I'd like to see how it does.
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    Got a new toy to test out eventually...

    If I get a nice day in March and everything is done I may be out lol. You know what's funny? For as long as it's been out its hard to find exactly how it slates in the merc lineup as far as what I'd need... so I've run a mirage and mirage plus on this hull. From all the data I've sent out I...
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    Got a new toy to test out eventually...

    Seems I like spending money when I'm not doing anything. Still investigating the engine and doing work on the boat... but found something I just couldn't pass up trying/buying. Looks like it was run a couple hours then shelved for a while. Cost next to nothing and maybe it'll knock my rpms down...
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    Maybe my turn for new boat time

    Finding competent engineers or really anyone with any sort of accountability is next to impossible and is prevalent everywhere. But that latch is just plain laziness. One of several reasons I hade buying new is I feel like I spend more time fixing all the cut corners than I would've repairing...
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    How do you all like your remote oil filter setups?

    I honestly think by the time the 90s rolled around, the blocks on the line were all the same and just were boxed and sent wherever. The last marine 350 I tore down (original to the boat) had the same cam in it as my 00 c3500. Casting numbers and all. I think pretty much all s10s had an oil...
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    How do you all like your remote oil filter setups?

    All our 4wd S10s have the remote setup. The one 2wd doesn't. The other does. It was standard on the 4WD trucks. I believe it was due to the front drive shaft proximity of it basically touching the filter if it didn't have it.... I am unsure of why the one 2wd has it, I do not believe the 2wd...
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    How do you all like your remote oil filter setups?

    No I meant that merc was receiving ones with the higher bypass installed. Wasn't doubting the remote filter housing aspect of it. Got 5 of them in the parking lot at work that jogged my memory this morning.
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    How do you all like your remote oil filter setups?

    Could very well be.
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    How do you all like your remote oil filter setups?

    An interesting thought... the older S10s were built on the line with factory remote mounts for the oil filter as well as oil coolers and then at some point they were eliminated or not used on 2wd trucks. Perhaps there was a point where they were always shipped with the higher bypass pressure. I...
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    Manifolds (Trying to figure out what I am looking at)

    Good to know. Then I am in spec lol.
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    How do you all like your remote oil filter setups?

    I actually found an AC Delco valve that claims 21psi bypass. 25014612. A whole 5 dollars.
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    Manifolds (Trying to figure out what I am looking at)

    I actually compression tested it a week or two before my last big trip... so september or so but there were five or six more outings after that. Figured with nearly 50 hours on the rebuild that would be a good A/B to the original test after the first run. I didn't observe any anomalies...
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    Manifolds (Trying to figure out what I am looking at)

    I would've went back out and took a crack at the block but being we accumulated nearly 3 inches of rain in the last 48 hours all of which occurring while I was awake... I worked on the manifolds as I value being dry and the boat as well.... and the manifolds were already on the work bench. Next...
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    Manifolds (Trying to figure out what I am looking at)

    I'll dig through the paper work later and see if I can find the P/N. Then I can rule it out. I have the old cam on the work bench which was the same part number that has a 2d matrix on it I can't decode... chances are it'll cross to the part number/cam card as most GM cores do... In the...
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    Manifolds (Trying to figure out what I am looking at)

    Yes on the winterization. Raw water + NJ means I have to. On the rebuild, I don't have the folder near me but it was a sierra PN that crossed to a mercruiser part number for that engine year range. I didn't have a serial number for the engine as it was rebuilt once before so we used the drive...
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    Manifolds (Trying to figure out what I am looking at)

    The manifold pressure test included the joint and gasket. Standard wet joint.
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    Manifolds (Trying to figure out what I am looking at)

    So I'm actually more confused than when I started out. Allow me to explain. This morning I did the following: Pressure test the block to 18 psi. I lost half a psi in about 20 minutes. I noticed the weep hole on the water pump is dripping as is a small amount of air escaping the plug in the...
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