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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Scott Danforth

    Glastron soft floor

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

    Lube for Shift/Throttle Cables

    the cable will fail if melted. spend the $35 on a new cable
  6. 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
  7. Scott Danforth

    Sportcraft Li'l Sport, worth restoring?

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

    OMC cobra new long block back firing when first starting

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

    Affordable fuel injection intriguing

    Holley and MSD are now under the same umbrella
  10. 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...
  11. Scott Danforth

    Francine, Kenner, La.

    Nice car and truck....
  12. 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...
  13. Scott Danforth

    4.3 vortec Mercruiser..lots of questions

    water out of that is not a good sign
  14. Scott Danforth

    V4 140 with damaged ID plate… hmmm… what year?

    look on the motor for the serial number in the welsh plug
  15. Scott Danforth

    opinions....

    lots of salt trails from the water inlet. I would be concerned about bravoitis. the caulking concerns me as well.
  16. Scott Danforth

    Star trek stuff.

    you can still hear the chopper blades cant you.....
  17. Scott Danforth

    4.3 vortec Mercruiser..lots of questions

    I use a mity-vac 8500 for vacuum and pressure testing. I also use it for vacuum bleeding brakes, verifying vacuum actuators, etc.
  18. Scott Danforth

    Star trek stuff.

    you know they manually went thru every frame and touched up his back side because he thought his butt looked big.
  19. Scott Danforth

    Electric nightmare

    My key switch runs two solid state 100 amp DC contactors for the house loads. and on the ignition side, 2 40 amp relays. the amount of current that goes thru the key switch is literally about 0.4 amps because of the dual relays and status LED's.
  20. Scott Danforth

    Electric nightmare

    thats why I spent the extra $2 for a key switch with an Aux position. I can run the radio and depth finder without the engine or gauges being on.
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