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I have a 76 Galaxy 16' with a mercruiser 120. I bought the boat with a bad motor, and replaced with a 1974 motor that had been rebuilt a year ago. The prop I had was a 14.5 x 21 and was shredded, looked like it had been used to till the garden. The best I could get with this was 3000 rpm's...
I have a 16' Galaxy Tri-hull that needs a new prop badly. The engine is a mercruiser I/O 120. I can't find a stamp on the current prop to tell me the size and pitch. Anyone got any ideas on what may have been stock?? WOT right now gets me to about 3000 RPM's I think I'm about 400 below where...
Hey All,
I have a 76 Mercruiser 120 2.5 GM. It cranks great and runs fine until you place a load on it, then the RPM's drop and seems like the engine just bogs down. I had a compression test and all 4 cylinders were reading 80-90. Oil in the cylunders brought the compression back up to...
I have a 1976 Galaxy tri-hull as my first boat. It's in somewhat rough shape cosmetically, and I want to do a little to fix it up. Would there be a big difference between replacing the carpet with indoor/outdoor carpet vs. actual Marine carpet? Just wondering what others have done and what...
