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  1. Scott Danforth

    1987 2.5L Mercruiser inboard/outboard

    I have pulled chinese made carbs apart to find metal shavings, etc.
  2. Scott Danforth

    1987 2.5L Mercruiser inboard/outboard

    Amazon? if so, rebuild your original carb
  3. Scott Danforth

    What gas do I use in my boat???

    absolutely no benefit to you, however your wallet is lighter, so the oil companies make more money. to get a benefit from 93 octane, you need much much higher compression than you have in that low power output 2.5 liter Chevy nova motor.
  4. Scott Danforth

    What gas do I use in my boat???

    local 89 octane e10 pump swill will be fine
  5. Scott Danforth

    OMC 140hp with 400 stringer sterndrive lots of questions!

    white paint and that lower are the 78-1980 hydro-mechanical shift stringer vs the 1981-1984 mechanical shift (silver)
  6. Scott Danforth

    Electric nightmare

    battery switch is in the back, all the power distribution is up front behind the helm. when I key off (at a marina, restaurant, overnight, etc.), I want the amps, electronics, and dash off, however the bilge pumps, and nav-lights remain hot as they are on the power feed from the battery. other...
  7. Scott Danforth

    Water in Oil

    if your power steering fluid has gone milky, then your power steering cooler has a thermal declination material breach....... the thing froze. the only place where your power steering comes in contact with water is the cooler. if the power steering cooler froze, that means there was one...
  8. Scott Danforth

    Mercruiser 3.0 cranks but wont start

    Read the stickies on points, and start researching. You are going to need a points file, feeler gauges, dwell meter, and a timing light
  9. Scott Danforth

    OMC 140hp with 400 stringer sterndrive lots of questions!

    You ordered a factory manual correct? From www.outboardbooks.com? SAE 30 and 75W90 marine gear lube Learn to set points and other old-school maintenance requirements
  10. Scott Danforth

    Glastron soft floor

    Uncapping is how you do it right. May seal like more work, it's actually less than leaving the cap on
  11. Scott Danforth

    Glastron soft floor

    If the floor is rotten, the transom long ago rotted and the foam is most likely waterlogged
  12. Scott Danforth

    Lube for Shift/Throttle Cables

    the cable will fail if melted. spend the $35 on a new cable
  13. Scott Danforth

    1973 Gibson help

    now you get to go spelunking for the missing impeller bits that are clogging up the rest of the raw water cooling system down stream
  14. Scott Danforth

    Sportcraft Li'l Sport, worth restoring?

    please read the rules on old threads and start your own thread.
  15. Scott Danforth

    OMC cobra new long block back firing when first starting

    What did you set the timing to?
  16. Scott Danforth

    Affordable fuel injection intriguing

    Holley and MSD are now under the same umbrella
  17. Scott Danforth

    projects other than boats

    looking good 'Kogs...... Looking good update on project Luddite..... buddy who is chief engineer at a mobile off-highway HVAC company is getting me CAD files of A/C components. been tied up at work on a new stealth project that gets unveiled at IBEX. been doing the due diligence on IP and...
  18. Scott Danforth

    Francine, Kenner, La.

    Nice car and truck....
  19. Scott Danforth

    350 mpi rebuild questions

    All chevy heads after the early 70's are light-weight castings and prone to cracking if overheated and a slug of water hits them. its not a vortec thing, its a chevy cylinder head after about 1973 thing most GM mercruiser blocks are the exact same longblocks as the GM trucks (except the head...
  20. Scott Danforth

    4.3 vortec Mercruiser..lots of questions

    water out of that is not a good sign
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