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  1. Scott Danforth

    How to bleed trailer brakes

    use a 2x4 and a helper. lower the master cylinder down to the ground. wrap the two chains around the bottom of the 2x4 and use it as a pry-bar to push in the tongue while your helper cracks the bleeders or buy a mity-vac 8500 so you can vacuum bleed the brakes by yourself. it also comes in...
  2. Scott Danforth

    Engine just clicks but no start

    inrush current on the old direct drive starters on the mercruiser 470 is 57 amps to pull in the solenoid and about 350 amps to get the motor starting to turn. then the solenoid amperage drops to about 5 amps to hold and the motor amperage drops to about 200 amps.
  3. Scott Danforth

    2018 V6 200 J Oil pressure dropping and alarm

    your logic and reasoning is flawed. oil changes are to be every 50 hours or every year, which ever occurs first your boat should be on its 6th oil change if the maintenance was kept up. change the oil and the filter. also, since you are supposed to pull the drive every year to inspect the...
  4. Scott Danforth

    trouble getting reverse.

    Seriously it the first thread in the forum at the top Here, let me spoon feed you Main sticky https://forums.iboats.com/threads/must-have-technical-information-for-diyers.335378/ Sub link https://forums.iboats.com/threads/miscellaneous-mercruiser-information.323278/ Videos...
  5. Scott Danforth

    Engine just clicks but no start

    Start at the battery and work your way to the helm cleaning every connection and clean them with 150 grit. They need to be clean and shiny enough the queen would eat off them Pull every one, one at a time. It will take the weekend
  6. Scott Danforth

    Help with new Lenco Trim Tab Switch

    The wiring schematic is all the help you need If you do not understand the wiring schematic or how to proceed. Then open your wallet to pay someone who does
  7. Scott Danforth

    Help with new Lenco Trim Tab Switch

    In one picture you have a switch panel with 2 broken Carling switches. In the other 3 pictures you have 2 Carling switches with a wiring harness and your broken switches Either your boat has that sub-harness or it doesn't Based on the pictures you do not have the sub-harness So pull the...
  8. Scott Danforth

    What am I looking at?

    Gauges 5 amps Bilge pumps and livewells 15 amps Horn and nav lights 10 amps
  9. Scott Danforth

    Best carpet for trailer bunks

    My local trailer shop sells bunk carpet in 3 different widths
  10. Scott Danforth

    trouble getting reverse.

    Go to the top of the forum. You will see the diy sticky. In there is a link listed as additional Mercruiser information. Scroll down a bit to the videos
  11. Scott Danforth

    2018 V6 200 J Oil pressure dropping and alarm

    Install a mechanical gauge and confirm oil pressure The alarm trigger point is either 4 or 7 psi depending on the switch. Since both the gauge is dropping and the alarm switch is triggering and both are wired separately. I would lean towards actually dropping oil pressure While the oil is...
  12. Scott Danforth

    Maintenance - New owner of 89 Mercruiser 4.3L Alpha One

    With a new to you boat that didn't even have the easy maintenance done....make sure to do all the maintenance Pull the drive and inspect the gimbal bearing, u-joints and bellows Check the alignment Change the raw water pump Do a baseline compression test. All cylinders should be between...
  13. Scott Danforth

    5.7 MPI Misfires Under Load

    And there is the problem You are running lean. Should be 43 psi at every RPM Now find out why Is it an inlet restriction, crud in the pump assembly, etc
  14. Scott Danforth

    trouble getting reverse.

    Stickies for each forum are at the top of the forum. Best viewed from a computer, not a phone
  15. Scott Danforth

    What to do with my two 470's?

    Lifters mate for life with the cam lobe. I would swap back myself
  16. Scott Danforth

    Honda 5 HP 2007 -- Revs high in neutral with low throttle, low revs in gear

    There is no mechanic in a can. Pull the carb apart and clean it
  17. Scott Danforth

    Embarrassing question

    Why wou you run the boat in winter? Drain your fuel system, fill with proper mixed fuel Check your compression. If it still runs. Buy a lottery ticket
  18. Scott Danforth

    Brightside polyurethane painting

    About page 12 of the link in my sig
  19. Scott Danforth

    Gel coating boat bottom - Product

    No wax, with duratec 904
  20. Scott Danforth

    Alpha one gen 1 steering arm slop

    Best to pull the drive and do it right
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