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Hey Guys: I have been struggling with the main wiring harnes plug and it doesn't want to come appart.:mad: I don't want to break it as I don't know what it looks like under that boot. Any ideas? I'm going to look in the manual to see if I can find a diagram or a break-down of the plug...

Hey Guys: I'm in the process of removing my 5.7 Merc from my Sea Ray in my signature. I had the manuals for the enginge and the drive ( I believe they were 14 and 17). I dropped my external hard drive and found out the info cannot be retrieved with a large expense. I lost 2 years off pictures...

Re: Storing trailer Here is a picture of boat on stand ..... Ken...... Having trouble posting picture from iPone. Any one know how?

Hey guys; I will be taking my boat off my trailer and leaving my trailer out side. Then I will block the trailer and remove the tires and store them inside. My question is should I bag the hubs or just leave them. I have a 2010 Shorelander tandem with surge disc brakes. Thanks..... Ken

Re: Hydro locked? I think I found the problem. The head gasket was pooched. I took the head in to have it checked and they said it was fine, but thought it should be refaced. The spot where the leak was, was a little low. I have all the gaskets and am going to pick up the head today. Should...

Re: compression Numbers I was looking a little closer at the exhaust manifold and found some white streaks in the corner leeding to #4. I just refaced the surface on the elbow and new gaskets and torqued to 25lbft. Here is a picture of what I found. What do you guys think.... Ken

I had a long thread going about hydrolocking and was not getting any responses. To make a long story short: Hydro locked when cold, pulled sprark plugs, water in number 4 and a little in the pan. Oil level didn't rise but the oil is a little milky. Pulled manifold and elbow, visually looked...

Re: Hydro locked? Thanks for all the responses. I will be puting it back together tomorrow and will report back when I have some news. Lets all cross our collective fingers. My boat is the entertainment at my wife work party on Saturday. I took the elbow and had it resurface today. Maybe that...

Re: Hydro locked? Well I got it out and the bolt closest to the fly wheel was a little loose. It was snug but not tight. I also noticed the bolt was bent. I think I might have found the problem. I took the starter in anyway while it was out and the tec said it was a little tight.and would...

Re: New steering cable. This is what the numbers look like ....Ken

Re: rack and pinon steering I did mine this year on a 1995 5.7 mercruiser alph I gen II. The wheel would still turn, but it was very stiff. I pulled the cable and replaced 15ft "no feed back" single Teleflex cable (from a Mer dealer) for $165.00 taxes in. It took me about 1 1/2 Hrs. If you...

Re: Replacing Burnt Shutter Valve - Trying to Find Pieces The old ones are steel of some kind The new ones are up-graded to a hard rubber of some kind..... Ken

Hi guys I've been having this problem the last couple of times out. I turn the key and the enging makes this clunk kind of sound and won't turn over. I wait a minute or two and it fires right up and then its fine for the rest of the day. Yesterday it did it again, but it did it two times with...

Re: Fast Help needed on Alpha 1 Sterndrive Mystery 0-Ring Found I'm wondering if its the raw water supply indicated by the yellow arrow?

Hey Guys I have a slow leak of gear oil (about a table spoon a week while not being used) from the weep hole in the front of my drive at the shift shaft bushing. I relaced the bushing and it appears to be also be leaking at the output shaft on the gear case (upper). I'm wondering whats involve...

Re: 96 alpha 1 gen II shift cable, gimbal & related parts I had the same problem with mine. I flushed them out, refilled and one time out and they were full of orange milkshake again. Likely you need to do a seal job on those rams. Here is a picture of mine dissasembled. Not hard to do at...

Re: Steering Here is a picture of my "foot long bar" or rack laying on the floor. My cable seized up and I had to replace the whole thing....... Ken

Re: Speedi-Sleeve on Balancer From what I can tell, there are two edges on the seal. The inside edge will be on the sleeve (red), and the out side edge will be very close to the front edge of the sleeve (green). There was a wear mark and it is under the sleeve (red) ......Ken

Hey Guys: I was trying to stop a timing cover seal leak by replacing the seal. I was not successful, and was informed I may need a speedi-sleeve. So I went and got one and installed as instructed to and this is how it ended. I'm not sure if its on far enough and if not what now? I measured...

Re: ?s on setting timing After setting the timing as described ^^^, I began to wonder if this way of marking timing is accurate. I haver never seen this way of doing it before. Usually the markings are on a tab attached to the timing cover. I guess what I'm asking is do i need to confirm TDC...