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  1. tpenfield

    Question about filling Bravo III outdrive w/ Gear Lube . . .

    Yea, so I filled my twin Bravo 3 outdrives with gear lube yesterday, and that was a lot of 'fun' :rolleyes: In doing so, it has prompted some questions. I recall reading through the service manual a couple years ago and if I remember correctly, 1) I take the upper plug out, 2) fill from the...
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    Formula 330 SS Head Liner Refubishment

    The material arrived today . . . sort of wish it came a day earlier as I would have been able to knock this off over the weekend. Looks the same . . . maybe a bit darker than the original.
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    Electro-Mechanical Trim Indicators

    Update: I was planning on doing a test fitting and install the trim indicators this weekend . . . but . . . it looks like there is a wiring harness routed to where I was planning on mounting the potentiometer portion of the system. So, I am doing a bit of re-thinking and will probably take a...
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    Formula 330 SS Head Liner Refubishment

    Some Updates . . . My headliner material should arrive early this coming week. This weekend, I did some prep work on the headliner, and will probably do the installation next week. Here are a few pictures . . . I terminated the wiring that I had to cut for the lights. So, going back in, they...
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    Subscription Notifications not going away after delete

    I am noticing that the subscription notifications in the message center are not going away when I click to delete them. They used to, no problem. This just happened with the recent site maintenance.
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    New Anchor and Bow Roller

    Here are some pics of the wiring . . . I ran some 4 GA wire from the engine room, up the port side and then through the ceiling of the cabin to tie into the existing wiring harness. I also ran a 12 GA Trilpex wire to the helm for the windlass switch. Feeding the 4 GA wire down the port side...
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    New Anchor and Bow Roller

    A fairly big weekend on the boat project front . . . I have been meaning to put a new anchor and a windlass on my boat. This year, the budget got stretched a bit on some other issues, so I decided just to do the new anchor and roller this year, and then the windlass next year. I decided to go...
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    Formula 330 SS Head Liner Refubishment

    Thanks. :) After a bit of inspection and some dis-assembly, it looks like I will need to get new headliner material. I was hoping that the foam backing would be in decent shape and re-usable, but that is not the case. I also have noticed that the headliner is made up of 2 pieces of 1/4"...
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    Formula 330 SS Head Liner Refubishment

    Here is the headliner (center section) in my living room for the evening. I plan to refurbish it outside tomorrow, as the weather will be dry. I took the opportunity to check out the wiring runs, as I plan to add wiring for a windlass (to be installed next year - maybe) The outside sections...
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    Formula 330 SS Head Liner Refubishment

    I noticed that the headliner cloth was hanging down at the end of last season. The cloth seems to be separating from the foam backing, etc. So, I planned to do a little bit of work on it as part of the prep for this season. My plan is to remove the center section of the head liner and rebuild it...
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    1969 Mercury 7.5 HP Drive Shaft . . . .

    Yaaaayyyy . . . The drive Shaft arrived today I checked various dimensions with my digital caliber and it measures out as the same. I was a bit concerned since the parts are 11 years different and not called the same number. (45-39078 vs 45-95873) So, once the other parts arrive, I should...
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    1969 Mercury 7.5 HP Drive Shaft . . . .

    UPDATE: After much trail and effort to loosen & remove the retainer nut (aka bearing cover) I finally decided to drill into it and break it apart. . . making sure, of course that I could buy a new one. Here is the retainer nut all busted up . . . Disassembly of the lower unit was fairly...
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    Small Mercury Outboard Drive Shaft Removel Question

    I am trying to take the drive shaft out of the lower unit on my 1969 Mercury 7.5 HP outboard (serial # below in my sig). I have got the bearing carrier out of the lower unit and removed the bolt off the pinion gear at the end of the shaft . . . but the shaft does not want to come out. :noidea...
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    Bravo III . . . aahhh phooey !!!

    UPDATE: I have done a little work on the outdrives. . . . drained the starboard outdrive down and last night, removed the old bearing carrier and installed the new one. Here are a few pictures: Since I did a bunch of work on the outdrives last year, I have the tools and the bearing carrier...
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    Electro-Mechanical Trim Indicators

    UPDATE: I finished the second mechanical trim sender unit. So, now it is a matter of waiting until I have the outdrives back on the boat, and then I can install the trim indicators. Here are a few more pics . . . The 2 units . . . The mechanical actuators The electrical converters (slide...
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    Electro-Mechanical Trim Indicators

    I have been working on a project to replace the standard Mercruiser trim indicators with something that would be far more accurate. There are mechanical trim indicators available in the performance market, but those have some short comings in that they usually only monitor the lower end of the...
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    IRS wants THEIR Billion back . . .

    Well the Admiral called me on my way home from work today all upset. It seems that we got a demand letter from the IRS for taxes owed . . . happened to be related to a 529 account from a couple of years ago. After an hour on hold and then talking with the IRS, they said that we did not file...
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    Bravo III . . . aahhh phooey !!!

    The bearing carriers arrived the other day . . . Here's $800 sitting on the table :rolleyes: I'll probably bring the outdrive home this weekend so I can work on them in the garage over the next few weeks. Still pretty cold to work on the boat itself.
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    Engine swap on my old Toro Snowblower . . .

    With the record amounts of snow fall this year, here on the east coast, I have become quite the snowblower gear head. Not that I was a novice before, I just did enough to keep the thing running. My Toro crapped out on the first snowfall of the year, and at first glance, it looked to be an...
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    Claw anchor for my 33 foot boat. . .

    Well, I ordered a claw anchor, along with an appropriate bow roller, for my 33 foot Formula. The anchor arrived yesterday and at first glance I thought that I might have gotten too big of an anchor. I got the 33 lb claw from Lewmar. Boat is 9K lbs dry . . . Ocean/bays. I was thinking a 22 lb...
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