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    riddle me this carb experts, and trainees!!

    Motor in question 1999 JOHNSON Ocean Pro 150.....J150pxees. The motor was an oily mess so I am rebuilding the carbs....I took the power head off and installed it on a 1997 Fast Strike 175 hp mid and lower section because my boat has a 20" transom( more about why that might be important later)...
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    plastic carb, brass ball leak

    so I have a new to me 1999 150 ocean runner...it was a salt water motor, but since the carbs leaked so bad the whole motor is an oily mess....so there is no corrosion to be seen on the outside.i have pulled the carbs and they are on the bench..i have a rebuild kit for each one...my question is...
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    troubleshooting a possible fried battery charger

    so some dirtbags decided to steal my twin batteries out of my starcraft a while back... I had them wired to a battery switch and an onboard GUEST 10 amp charger. it was a nice set up that I also have on my Big lowe roughneck. So I replaced the batteries eventually, and then it took me several...
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    Lenco all electric trim actuator wiring QUESTION

    so. I have purchased a pair of Lenco trim actuators(not the kit) to install on my boat in a capacity that is NOT a trim tab...per se I don't have any wiring other than the two wires that comes off the actuators. I want to wire BOTH actuators to work simultainously with ONE switch. I need to...
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    question on I/O lower unit hydraulic rams

    I am wondering how much force these units have in either direction. I want to "adapt" a set I have on a junk boat I acquired for parts. the boat appears to have a clean mercruiser gimbal set still installed with the twin hydraulic ramps for TNT action, with the pump. I am thinking of using...
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    TNT relay assy question..

    I have a T-H Marine Hydraulic jack plate on my 20 ft Lowe mod V. after less than a year the relay system from TH Marine failed...I bought another, and a year later it failed...so in a pinch I wired in an extra TNT relay box from a 1988 evinrude 70 HP, I had on hand... it has worked ever...
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    Teleflex safe-T-Q, question

    I am moving my helm forward and to the port side of my boat. It was a center console and I had the cable come off the helm towards the port and bent down and back to the center line of the boat and under the floor. then it ran down the center line of the boat under to the floor until it came out...
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    sandwiching aluminum sheet onto transom?

    so I have a Lowe 2070. It has a composite core for rigidity in the transom assy. I say assy, because there is a layer of .100 thick aluminum welded to the boat to form the outer layer of the transom assy. then the core is placed in and on the inside is a layer of .070" thick aluminum that has a...
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    vent tube on permanent fuel tank question

    how far INTO the fuel tank does the vent tube NEED to go or SHOULD go? I have seen most , are just open tubes...on one tank I cut open it was welded into the tank on one end and ran the full length of the tank on the inside!!! up against the top of the tank. I have seen other tanks where is is...
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    permanent fuel tank vent designs

    So I want to put a permanent fuel tank in my boat that didn't have one. I have chosen the center V down the middle of the boat...the space is not that wide and it is not that deep... so I am building the tank myself...because to just get 28 gallons it needs to be 96" long!...nobody makes a tank...
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    source for EXTRA WIDE aluminum sheet

    anyone know a source for extra wide aluminum sheet(1/8th" thick 5086 or 5052).... the floor of a boat I am working on is 68" wide!! and I do not want to lay 4 sheets down on the 13 foot run of floor... bob
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    early 90's J/E V6 lost foam casting block question

    so since I have a few motors of the 60 degree looper configuration, I take a look at any thread I see concerning those. and over the years it seems many people have spoke of a weak casting spot in the block that cracks and left water into either the 1 cylinder or the 2 cylinder...or maybe both...
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    what wiring to choose

    I just tore my LOWE Ultra Roughneck down to the bare bones and will rebuild using new wiring as I am moving the console up and over from the center!!...so my wiring I installed in 2010 when I originally built this boat really cant be used. I used a lot of DUPLEX wiring as well as single...
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    gas consumption v4 vs v6

    So this past sunday my reliable and faithfull( mostly) ocean runner 115 bought the farm.... it might have been my fault and it might have just been its time... I am sure a rod let go and seized the block... It was running so well...I was at WOT...temps were about 130 in both heads and water...
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    dual axle trailer wearing one tire excessively

    I rebuilt my dual axle trailer.. I bought two new axles , two new sets of hubs and new springs, and bushings and bolts. ought 2 new tires and used a pair od oldies that were lying around...just to get it set up... I have taken only two trips with the boat and trailer rigged up. about 300 miles...
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    installing 2 batteries, what combo??

    ok so I went to start the boat for the first time this year, It was last run in December of last year. I had no power to tilt the motor. Went to check the battery switch, turned it on #1. still nothing... went to check the charge in the batteries... the charge was zero...because THEY WERE...
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    Bypass the stop circuit??

    My 1995 115 Johnson looper has been acting up since December.. Originally I thought it might be water in the gas, then I thought it might be the gearcase...then after posting here I had thought that it might have been a leaking t-stat housing allowing water to run down onto the spark plug and...
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    good deal on rivets!!!

    http://newyork.craigslist.org/jsy/pts/5500831654.html smoking deal on a pair of rivets!!!!......get em while they are hot folks!!! bob
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    BAD MISS.. thought it was the gearcase!!!

    so we learn as we go...and we become experts at the stuff we solved, but are newbies when we encounter stuff unseen before. I had what I was thinking was water in the gas...but since I had hit my SS prop on my 1995 Johnson ocean runner 115 twice in the previous week...I thought... I MIGHT have...
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    one sideof the V4, the plugs are rusting

    My Johnson V4 1995 vintage ocean runner 115 hp has had the straboard side plug bodies rusting badly while the port side has no rust. I use the motor in salt water, maybe 20 times a year... I am thinking it MIGHT be because the port side runs much hotter at idle than the starboard side, and thus...
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