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  1. dwco5051

    1974 mercury 115 in line 6

    No. 100 ft lbs is the torque for the flywheel nut in the center. About 15 or so for those small ones.
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    Speed of a 21ft Mariner

    Just ran your new speed squared divided your old speed squared and the result is almost the same as you power increase. 140/90=1.55 2116/1406=1.50
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    Speed of a 21ft Mariner

    Boat speed vs power is not a a linear relationship. If so by increasing your power by 55% would result in a speed of about 58 mph. The truth is calculating speed vs power for a planing hull is very complicated depending on a lot of factors. Even the wind resistance force is quadratic meaning...
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    Lund 14 DX and Merc 25 sluggish

    I run an almost identical boat (Crestliner 14) with a Tohatsu 30 hp witch is a little more power and a 9.9 inch by 13 pitch prop for a top end of about 30 mph. With my old prop witch was a 12p it would over rev by 150 rpm with only my self on board. Just a guess but if your motor is working ok...
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    Johnson 115hp Need to lift motor off transom to install steering cable...Questions!

    It will balance better all the way down if you are going to just slide it over. Jack up the trailer or pull the wheels up on a couple of wood blocks. Did the cables on my1990 tracker nitro a few years ago and just had to slide it over a bit. 175 hp and I moved it by myself without a lift...
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    1953 Chris Craft - need title

    Do you currently have possession of the boat and a bill of sale? Also the previous owners name, registration, or other documents? What state did the boat come from and do you reside in that state or another? If it came with a trailer same questions. With this information I am sure that someone...
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    Outboard Lock Recommendations?

    They can get the motor and a piece of your transom in minutes with a sawzall. Worry more about where you park you tow vehicle. Your cat convertor is a lot lighter...
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    Carbon Monoxide/Body Surfing

    https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2021/06/28/coroner-carbon-monoxide-contributed-death-uc-womens-soccer-player/7782856002/
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    1943 Penn Yan cartopper

    If this was Ralph Wahl's boat there are probably hundreds of pictures of it in books and magazines. http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv44126
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    Sharing a berth

    Maybe next year they will discover Med Mooring and be able to increase the number of rentals by another 30 percent or so. I would love to have the video rights for that circus.
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    Sharing a berth

    Like this?
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    Hello, New member. Assistance Please and tks

    Not an expert by far on that drive but I did hear they were hard to adjust the shift cables right.
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    Wrong impellar?

    That is the way they look in the pump housing. They are positive displacement pumps. Note that the axis of the pump is not in the center of the housing. The rubber vanes fill with water on the intake side and squeeze it out on the discharge side as the vanes are defected in the housing. From...
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    Hello, New member. Assistance Please and tks

    Does not sound like that good of a deal to me. 5.000C sounds about the right price if everything worked and the rest of the boat is in good shape. Remember that boat is 30 some years old. Possible paperwork problems with ownership questions. Don't know about Ontario but down here it might be...
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    Help! Identifying type of boat

    Right on. Note the registration code also shows outboard on the paper work. Ranger did for a short time make I/O bass boats but they didn't sell well. I have only seen one once up in my neck of the woods. People who own bass boats normally fish right up to when the lake is froze over and did...
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    Starter and choke issue

    Is that 10v when the key is turned to start and the starter is running or is it just when the key is pushed in to activate the choke only while in the run position? If it is the first then I would suspect the starter is drawing current and a slight drop in voltage would be normal. Don't know...
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    Battery wires on Bayliner

    This might help;https://www.electricaltechnology.org/2020/07/marine-boat-cable-wire-color-codes.html
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    Starter and choke issue

    Did the parts store actually load test the battery or did they just check the voltage as it sat? Did you unplug the wiring harness from the motor and check for corrosion? It is time to start checking voltage at various points in the system while engaging the starter rather than just start...
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    Random

    Reminds me of the definition of an optimist as a person who would order a Yugo with a trailer hitch.
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    Need help on changing every wire on my sterdrive engine

    For us owners of older motors and boats the dreaded NLA part number is the acronym for "No Longer Available".
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