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    Diverence between bell housings Bravo

    Hello, My bell housing is broken on my Bravo one and I have another one that is slightly different. My broken one has two grooves on top, the other one doesn't have the grooves. It seems to fit but I'm not sure what the difference is. Who knows and can I use the one without the 2 grooves...
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    How To: Rebuilding Trim cilinders Bravo

    Recently I've rebuild my trim cylinders and took some picture to show you how to do this. It's a fairly simple job and requires simple tools. Only special tool to use is to screw of the end cap. Part numbers 25-87400A 2 Trim cylinder O-ring kit. This is for one cylinder only. First clean the...
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    Mating upper and lower half Bravo One

    I've just assembled my bravo drive and replaced the seals. When I mated the upper half to the lower half I noticed that there is a tiny gap at the back part. The part where the seals are (little oil seal, water passage and drive shaft) looks OK. Only to see when I hold a light at the other side...
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    Rebuild trim cilinders

    Hello Guys, Bravo one: I've just rebuild both my trim cylinders, and replaced all the seals and O-rings, easy job, will open a separate "how to" topic with pictures soon. I dropped the floating piston in the cylinder and pushed it in a couple of inches. Then pushed in the rod. Mounted...
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    Drive doesn't come up with the trim button but does with the trailer. Down is oke

    Hello Guys, I have a question about the trim sender and trim limit switches. See the title of this topic. I suspect the trim switch is bad but which one? How can I test this? Drive is an Alpha One Gen II on a Mercruiser 3.0. Is it possible that one of the solenoids is bad? Again, how do I test...
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    3.0ltr Engine starts but dies when key in run position. Also no power to instruments

    Hello all, I'm currently at a boat with a Mercruiser 3.0 s/n: 0B917460 The boat was sitting for two years after proper maintenance. But, when we hit the key the motor starts and run oke for the time that you held the key. If you let the key switch back to the run position the motor dies. There...
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    Broken Drain Plug Mercruiser 7.4

    Yesterdag, when we pulled the boat out of the water to put it in storage, I asked the club members to put it on a pedestal and leave it outside for 30 minutes so I could drain my block first before put my boat inside. Removed the hoses from the manifolds (no drain plugs there), removed the big...
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    Trouble finding a name for my boat

    Hi guy's (and girls), I'm the proud owner of a Sea Ray 230 Bowrider Select. The PO did not give the boat a name but I will. I asked my wife and children to think of a name but it's harder then we thought. Can you please help me with some nice suggestions?
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    Port manifold cool, starboard little warm

    Hello, My engine runs great, lots of power, starts good, runs good oil pressure (40psi), doesn't overheat and so on. Yesterday I noticed, when I docked my boat, that my port manifold is cool but starboard is a little warm. Not hot but slightly warm. Is it normal that there is a difference or is...
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    Full tune up

    Hi fellow boaters, I'm wondering what it means to "do a full tune up" I can imagine that it involves replacing some parts but what is a full tune up? Can you also do a half tune up? ;) I can think of: Replace spark plugs replace oil and fuel filters replace points/condensors if applicable...
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    Alpha and Bravo drives replacable?

    Hello, just curious, when someone has a alpha or Bravo drive, can he change that to a Bravo/Alpha without to replace the transom parts? If so, are inner transom plate, gimball housing, gimball ring and bell housing all the same?
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    Mercruiser 3.0L 3 years in storage

    Hello, A friend asked me if I will help him with his Sea Ray Seville with inboard. No problem but the boat was 3 years in storage. They put the boat in without proper preparation. So now he wants to use his boat again but need some service off course. Things I can think of before trying to...
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    Identifying engine

    Hello, I'm about to buy a Sea Ray 230 OB with a Mercruiser 7.4 MPI. The engine has serial number 0L324988. Is there a way to identify the precise model and year it's build? Same for the Bravo I with serial 0L158871 Transom serial 0L519880 Thanks for reading. Martin
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    Bad compression on Johnson 6 hp 1973

    Hello, I have a Johnson 6hp 2 stroke and it will not devellop full power. On idle it runs oke. When i hit the throttle in neutral the revs goes up fine. Under load it builds up revs but slowly and not to full power. I tested the compression and one cylinder has about 60psi and the other 50. I...
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