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    1978 Mercury 70hp Worth Messing With?

    Y Yep thats pretty much what Im wanting , damn ,I didnt see one for that price tho ๐Ÿ™‚. I bought a little box to put the components in but the capacitor is bigger that I expected and wont fit in the box .
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    Random

    Yeah , probly someone's wife hocking of his treasure for bingo money ....doesnt quite know what it is ๐Ÿ˜
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    1978 Mercury 70hp Worth Messing With?

    I just bought this stuff To make a dva , only need one of each but minimum buy is 10 or 20 , whole lot cost about 12 bucks , as opposed to 80- 100 to buy one .๐Ÿ™‚
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    Random

    If it has a fence Id be in for 40 bucks ๐Ÿ™‚
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    Need help identifying motor , 5hp 2 stroke mercury

    Yeah ,I know that ,even if it wasnt beaten up , but I gotta convince these kids of that and giving them a decent kick in their piggy bank and hopefully they will be able to see for themselves.........otherwise Im just going to tell them "no Im not doing it ". Problem is is that it does run and...
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    1978 Mercury 70hp Worth Messing With?

    Well , if it has all the things you assume it has , wtf not , I mean it looks to be in reasonable nick . If it goes ok and doesnt have any death rattles . 1978 doesnt necessarily mean its got a lot of wear on it ...might be a tidy old donkey . After that I guess it comes down to what you have to...
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    Need help identifying motor , 5hp 2 stroke mercury

    As above . Two neighbourhood lads arrived at home last night with this Carb gunked up crank bearings noisy as all hell ,looks like it fell of the back of a truck several times , gear lever broken . It does have good spark (โ…œ" plus ) and 120psi compression . There is no identifying numbers...
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    8hp Johnson idles well, but stumbles under load, sometimes

    There are 2 most likely possibilities , one is that there is a component that fails when it warms up , and tother is a dry joint . Dry joints are where something is soldered onto the circuit board as below , the black stuff in the ring surrounding the joint is carbon from where the joint has...
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    Random

    Nothing you could eat is good for you ....some are less bad but thats it ๐Ÿ˜
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    blue plug ear breakage

    Heat up the blade of a large-ish flat blade left hand screwdriver and shove it into the plug so it melts its way in ....let it cool or tip some 0 alcohol beer or water ( same thing )on it and unscrew it .
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    i'm in a fairly serious pickle...

    Oooooh, ..... That depends on how Im going to cook them , like two if Im poaching them ,3 or 4 if Im scrambling them ....more if I have to share the scramble with the handbrake ( I married her last week ) ....is bacon involved ? aw man , if Im eating cashews I eat the broken ones 1st ...then...
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    i'm in a fairly serious pickle...

    Yeah, yours is the longest answer ๐Ÿ˜
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    i'm in a fairly serious pickle...

    Yes ๐Ÿ˜ specially with the 3 row boxes , if things get to uneven the box flexes and ๐Ÿคฌ........๐Ÿ˜
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    non alcoholic beer

    Thats more like it ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜
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    Carb - Fuel shoots up thru the main jet

    Are you sure you have the fuel delivery hose attached to the correct tube on the carb .....wouldnt be the 1st time Ive seen the fuel hose connected to the bowl vent . Otherwise the fuel is getting thru or around that float valve . With carb off the motor put a short length of fuel line on carb...
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    K&N air filters......yay or nay ?

    Yeah ,thats it , this is the 1st car I have intended to fit one to with a MAF ....everything else was carbed. And , to oil them properly takes a while for the oil to wick over the whole filter if you dont drench it . The last paper ( Ryco ) filter has lasted 60,000kms and still looks ok...
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    K&N air filters......yay or nay ?

    I have put them on a lot of motors over the years ....believing they were a good thing but I just read on google that they mess up mass airflow sensors , dont filter as well as a paper filter and dont add hp ( I knew that they dont add hp). I just bought another one and was googling to make...
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    daily music fix

    Yeah ,him and about 50 others. Thats the thing about music . I dont have an all time favorite guitarist , but if I did it would keep changing .๐Ÿ˜
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    1986 Johnson 30hp - Vacuum lines and throttle control rod

    "Bart Simpson" actually๐Ÿ™‚
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    1986 Johnson 30hp - Vacuum lines and throttle control rod

    ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜Eat my shorts ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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