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    Voltage at Battery Terminal when boat motor is running?

    Have a 1984 Evinrude 115 VRO. To check on whether or not the motor is charging the battery while running on hose/muffs, what would be a good voltage reading across the battery terminals. It the boat motor is not charging, what range would the reading likely be? At full charge and not...
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    Starter teeth not engaging flywheel teeth to start the motor

    Battery is fully charged. Solinoid teeth spin but the mechanism does not climb up to engage the flywheel teeth. I rotated both sets of teeth manually to get them to lock and then tried the key. The solenoid will only drive the flywheel a couple of inches and then dropped down and kept on...
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    Solar Panel to Charge Johnson 115 VRO - 1984

    Just bought a boat and the seller thinks that the rectifier ($390 locally) is not charging. It has started/run fine on the hose and the tilt/trim is working fine. I'm wondering about using a solar panel to charge the battery rather than replace the water cooled rectifier. A local dealer has a...
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    Lifting Ring - 1984 115hp VRO

    I'm improvising a lifting ring for this motor. Does anyone know the size of bolts required for the the bolt holes on top of the flywheel. Not even sure if they would be metric or sae. 1/4" inch slips into 2-3 threads as does an 8M-1.25. However, I'm not wanting to use a wrench on either...
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    1984 - Johnson 115 VRO - starter is not engaging the flywheel

    The battery is fully charged. Have got lights/power trim. When trying to start the motor, the starter is working, the brass cog on the top is rotating but it is not lifting up to engage the flywheel. The previous owner tells me he did have it running but the unit has been sitting with little...
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    Starting out with a fully charged battery but the system is not charging?

    If the system on a 115 VRO is not charging - about how long can a fully charged battery be expected to function before the motor no longer fires? i.e., about how much time would a person have to move a boat from one place to another before the motor stops functioning. This would assume no...
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    Lifting Ring - 1984 Johnson 115hp

    A three legged lifting ring is optional but necessary for this motor if it is to be lifted. At about $300 OEM, I would like to improvise something similar that will do the job. Has anyone done this?? There are three threaded holes on top of the flywheel that would seem to be the base holes...
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    1984 - Johnson 115 VRO - not charging

    I just picked up a boat with the 115 VRO. It starts/runs fine but the seller told me it was not charging the battery. Have done some research and it seems that the probable replacement is the rectifier/regulator at about $200 +-. Tilt/trim works fine. The rectifier is not in plain sight on...
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    Trim Question - Motor Runs - but no tilt/trim

    Have a 1990 Merc 3 Cyl. 90 h.p. with Commander 2000 control that is new to me and I'm just learning. I have the thick service manual. Hydraulic fluid is right up, and motor is up and braced in "trailer" position. Using the "up" and "down" before manually lifting it up resulted in the motor...
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    Furler or Downhaul System - ?

    If you had the opportunity to order a new head sail - would you choose to go with the furling system or set it up for a down haul? Sailing on a reservoir where winds can change in both intensity and direction rather quickly. Sailing a 17' Siren with a small 2" furler that looks pretty small...
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    Sapphire Furler - 4" Drum & Swivel

    Does anyone own this make or know roughly what they cost - either new or used. Can't find anything on the net about them. Also wondering if more hardware is required to set them up.
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    Locking a Rudder Down - Siren 17'

    I just bought a 17' Siren and am running into problems with the rudder staying down. It will go down, seem to be OK, and then sporadically it will pop up - usually at the most inconvenient times. It takes a person leaning out over the back to get it back down but this is not a good thing for...
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    Battery Cable - '90 Merc 90 hp - 3 cyl

    I'm wanting to hook up the battery cables for this motor for the first time and want to confirm where the + and - ends connect to the starter. What I'm seeing in the manual is not quite the same picture as what I'm looking at on the motor. Looking from the starboard side: The top of the...
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    Master Cut Off Switch?

    Is a master cut off switch a good (necessary) thing to have. If so, where is the best place to locate it. I'm guessing that it would wire into the primary +ve wire somewhere close to the battery. All my electrics go through individual circuit breakers so perhaps a master switch might be...
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    Size of Gas Hose - Filler down to the gas tank

    The guy ahead of me had used a really thick, stiff corrugated radiator hose that has very little bend. From the tank up to the filler there are three nasty bends so it was very difficult to remove. Now that it is out, I want to replace it with something new. With all the synthetics available...
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    Manually tilting a 90 HP o/b that has a Tilt

    New-to-me boat so it is in the back yard. I don't have the electrics hooked up yet and wanted to tilt the motor up. It lifted maybe 1" and then seemed to lock rather come up further. The two tilt plungers at this point were about 4-5" up. I turned the "air" screw counter c. and thought if I...
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    Rewiring a 17' bowrider o/b -1977, ??s

    I'm just now learning about electronics and see this as a challenge. I'm looking at the minimum gauges/appliances - lights, horn, and a new bilge pump (draws 5 amps/10amp fuse). The dash has a Tach, Speedometer, Fuel, and a hole for one more gauge (maybe was a trim indicator). The instruments...
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    Working on Gas Tank, ?s - Larson Manta 175

    It has a metal tank about 40" x 24" X 8" high. Guessing it holds about 12-15 gals and probably original - 1977. It had been out on the water with previous owner about 6 weeks ago but don't know if he used the tank or a portable carry-on. At any rate, I do want do do something about the gas...
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    Boat Name - Location to Place on Boat

    Is there such a thing as a "proper" or conventional place/size of lettering for the name of the boat - i.e. the transom, starboard towards stern, port towards stern, etc.
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    Removing Steering Cable from the Helm?

    My helm has a large round drum - about 8" - that is very flat and held together with four bolts with 1/2" nuts. The cable comes in at the top/starboard side and just above one of these bolts. The other three bolts are close to where the steering wheel extension comes through the drum. A...
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