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    Alpha Gen 1 Water pump kit 18-2220 Extra Parts

    Put in a new water pump kit while I had the leg off, now I've got extra parts.... http://www.iboats.com/mall/image/vendor/16/big/18-3320.jpg If you look at the above picture of the kit from Sierra here at iBoats, you'll see two gaskets for the pump that are identical, one small o-ring, and...
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    Toss my power steering or get creative?

    So, plugging along this weekend on my swap of an old 305 to a new 350. Here's a little background on my 22' Glasply cabin cruiser--bought a new Kodiak Marine TBI 350 complete from belts to bellhousing for a very good price, pulled my 1978 305 merc 898 out, and started fitting parts. Solved the...
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    Older 305 to Newer 350 Swap Mercruiser Alpha gen 1

    I've got a merc 898 (305 Chev, 1978) with a newer reman'd leg (Alpha gen-1 style, new in '07, running 1.47:1). I'm swapping the old engine with a brand new, zero hour, 350 TBI from Kodiak Marine. The new engine comes with a 14" flywheel, and I've ordered a conversion 12.75" flywheel from the...
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    305 w/ Rochester 2bbl Stalled Dead in the Water

    Cruising along at 2900 RPMs on plane today and the engine cut out dead. Fired it back up after about 30 seconds, ran for a couple hundred feet at a fast idle, started to push up on plane, and it died again. Got worse and worse until it only ran at idle for ten seconds or so before conking out...
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