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If the outer jacket of the cable seperated that is one of the symptoms. Check where the cable is attached to the drive.

The genuine Volvo trailering bracket is a PITA to use. The transom saver kit is easier to use and more reliable.

2XS with BONDO. Those manifolds are going to cost you a new engine if you do not change them.Check out the price of a rebuilt Jasper or similar rebuild plus labor, freight and tax. The way you are maintaining your engine it will out last the boat and the drive system. Ford engines are made from...

Just dig out the “O”ring with a pick. The thermostat will then come out. If you know someone with a blast cabinet would help. Or with a sharp angled scribe to clean out the “O”ring groove.

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Look at the starter solenoid, the purple/black wire is contacting the main battery cable or the inside of the solenoid is causing the back feed. Disconnect the purple/black and check the voltage at the coil. This will prove out the back feed.

A good chance the heat exchanger core is either leaking internally or the “O” ring seals are leaking. As SD said the “O: ring that seals the lower gear housing to the h frame should be replaced. The “O” ring is easy to replace. The socket head screws are all fractional, you need to drain the...

Does your engine cover allow water to land on the distributor? If so water is getting inside the distributor body through the flame arrestor screen on the side. You will have to rig up some type of shield to flow the water away.

Just remove the hose where it is connected to the manifold. If you do not have compressed air then insert the male end of the garden hose in the hose that connected to the manifold and clamp it. Take some vise grips and pinch off the incoming hose. Then gradually open the faucet until the...

How about going on the site of a big box auto store that shows the part in stock at that store, you go there and it is not in stock. Then they say “we can order it”. 3-4 days plus shipping! YES, I really want to hear that BS. It must be must my bad luck. Grainger advertises their products...

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The hole would have been open if the engine was a V8 for the other water hose to the other side of the engine. The cover is the chamber for the bearings on the intermediate shaft. The tilt clutch housings always has water in them. there may be a drain screw on the bottom. Refill it with...

The only way is to get a pressure gauge that reads up to 3000 psi and connect it directly to the high pressure discharge port .i know it takes some creative plumbing. NAPA sells 3/16” made up steel tubing with flare nuts in short lengths. You will have to get the fittings to mate to the gauge.

Take a close look at where the main battery cable is bolted to the solenoid on the starter. The battery cable could be contacting the bypass wire stud which will give a back feed . The wire may be black /purple. Another possibility may be if you replaced the boost or slave solenoid with a...

2 Steering rack stories. When OMC would come every year for the technical update seminar they told of a boat sold in San Diego to a guy with the rack backwards. Time passed and when the boat cane in for routine service one of the mechanics corrected the steering. The owner then crashed the boat...

One day in lake pontchartrain the wife and I were in or 16’ ski boat with a 135/t&t Johnson. There is a watering hole just in the yacht harbor entrance, so we were headed in when a 65’ footer came out, I had already slowed down and trimmed it in for the light chop but when the first wave...

The rod that goes up through support yoke has to not contact the bottom of the rod that lifts the drive. The top of the rod should protrude from the support yoke about 1/2” when the drive is down. The fact that the latch stays down means that the top of the rod is stuck in the upper...

Re read my June 10 post. Unless you want to remove the gimbal ring which has to be destroyed to remove it. The trim limit switch is inside the top of the gimbal housing. locate the 2 wires going into the top of the gimbal housing and just connect them together. That way you just have to press...

What is wrong with the lifters? If they are cupped on the bottom you will need a new camshaft also.

Have someone watch the secondary butterfly linkage when you punch it. The linkage should not move until the engine starts to turn up. If it does move try to restrict it and see if does not bog or stumble.