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    5.7l EFI Mercruiser TBI Bravo surging idle stalls

    I have a 2000 5.7l EFI TBI Mercruiser with bravo 3 Stern drive, that surges at idle in neutral only after engine has warmed up. It will surge or stall / die when you put it in gear if you don't give it any throttle at first. anything outside idle it runs great, trolling and at high speeds no...
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    need help finding a good fishing boat model for walleye, salmon, catfish.

    I have been looking for boats for a few months now and have been trying to narrow down a good model of boat for my needs. There are so many different types out there it has been hard to sort through all of the different makes to find only a few specific models and years that work. What I am...
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    Retail Price $ 2004 Starcraft Pro Elite 1800 what's it worth?

    I was doing some research on how much an 04 Starcraft Pro Elite 1800 is worth. I looked it up on the NADA guide and it stated it was somewhere around $8800. I thought this was considerably low and this includes the price of the outboard. I have only seen one boat like this listed on the...
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    how do i hook up a water pressure gauge, mercury 85hp 850

    i have already tried to hook up my water pressure gauge and i am not getting any readings. What i did was "T" into the hose that my tell tale is connected to. Is there somewhere else i should be hooking it up?
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    Tachometer hook up on mercury 850 85hp

    i have a 1974 mercury 85hp 850 inline 4 that i am trying to hook up a tachometer to. I bought an aftermarket tach. Fiara i believe. i looked at the wiring diagram and the sending wire for the tach should be a light brown wire / brown wire coming from the main harness out of the engine which...
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    1974 85hp 850 thunderbolt idles too fast, idle stop all the way out

    i have a 74 mercury thunderbolt 85hp 850 that i am having some issues with. i just recently rebuilt the carbs and was cleaning the distributor cap and rotor, the main pickup on the distributor broke on me. boy that part is expensive $450 new. so i found a 1972 80hp donor bought the whole motor...
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    4.3L mercruiser idle problem possible water in system

    i have a 1993 4.3L Mercruiser with a new Edelbrock Carb. Here's the deal. When i get the engine started of course after adding staring fluid / brake clean. i can only keep it running above 2000-4000 RPM when it goes below that it just dies and can't restart until i add some brake clean. also...
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    1993 4.3l mercruiser with edelbrock weber 4 bbl carb flooding.

    i recently returned from a 15 month deployment and was having my boat worked on by a local guy while i was deployed. i would not recommend to anyone to take their boat there. anyway. i put a new edelbrock marine carb on the boat but before that i noticed what looked like water in the oil. only...
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    getting a boat titled in Texas with no title

    hey everyone, i new to the site and wanted to get some experts suggestions on a title issue that i have. i bought a boat in seadrift Texas a few years back. it was in bad shape and have been fixing it for a while. then i got deployed a few times and i am trying to get the boat titled. I...
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