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  1. nola mike

    Fuel delivery

    Have you tried measuring the voltage across the plug pins?
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    Are plastic props junk?

    I've had mixed luck with those. better bet is timing light or multimeter or the optical tachs.
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    Mercruiser 4.3LH backfiring & weird timing

    do you have a knock sensor?
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    Another prop slipping thread

    if you can see the driveshaft behind the engine, it won't spin if the coupler is bad. Have you greased the coupler ever?
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    2002 Chaparral 286 SSI

    I mean, a carb *definitely* isn't as easy to start as FI. Mine is known for draining the fuel bowl after a while, so to not have my boat act like it looks I need to run the fuel pump manually. Most carbs have a personality; they need to be pumped a certain number of times, throttle set in a...
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    2002 Chaparral 286 SSI

    advice would have been to water test it, running on muffs is worthless. is that a 186?
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    Mercruiser 4.3LH backfiring & weird timing

    Are you also sure that you're on the compression stroke?
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    What are these?

    ^ yes.
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    Help! I need to know what I got!!! Lol

    cool looking boat. image search with a few close hits, https://boats-from-usa.com/galaxy/beautifully-restored-galaxy-pleasure-boat-34940
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    Rattle when in gear

    Smell whatever's in your bilge. Gear oil is very easy to distinguish from motor oil. It can also be leaking into your drive shaft bellows (and possibly then back to the bilge). Unless you can definitively find a leak at the reservoir, your drive needs to come off. Sometimes things like to give...
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    Rattle when in gear

    Protip: when your boat starts making bad noises and critical fluids are disappearing, the solution is almost never to give it more gas while overloaded and pulling tubes. Hopefully you didn't toast the drive. Pull the drain plug and check for metal
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    No Spark on 1988 4.3 ltr. engine

    you should have battery voltage at the coil. this needs to be corrected before proceeding. a first cheater step would be to jumper a wire to the coil pos and see if you get spark then (note that you'll need to disconnect the jumper to shut down the engine if it starts, or put a plug or spark...
  13. nola mike

    Tune up problem

    if you can't get them out, drill them out and replace with a machine screw/nut
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    Oil in bellows questions…

    and you can find the wrench for around $50
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    MR outdrive - no reverse after changing lower shift cable

    unless it's warranted.
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    MR outdrive - no reverse after changing lower shift cable

    does it shift into reverse with the cable disconnected?
  17. nola mike

    5.7 Mercruiser stalls out

    it doesn't need to be at tdc to time it. it does need a timing light I think only the delcos are plated, right? you can get plugs at the auto part store. you aren't really tuning the carb. you're setting the idle mixture. many ways to do it, easiest (though not best) way is turn screw in until...
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    Mercruiser 4.3L TKS 2BBL Carburetor Engine Sporadic Behavior

    I can't hear whether that's idling normally at any point, but in both videos you have intermittent spark well before it stalls
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    12v boat hoist motor

    sure.
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    steering cable?

    you'll be screwing with that thing until you eventually replace it anyway. there's a graveyard of threads with people trying to clean a cable unsuccessfully, or more likely partially successful... for a while
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