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    Muriatic acid on stripped outdrive. Is it safe?

    I'm trying to get most of this white corrosion off. If it's not all completely off will that cause the new paint to flake off? Also after Using the Muriatic acid and hosing it down when it dries there is gray dust on the outdrive? Kind of looks like tiny bubbles. You can see it if you zoom in...
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    Muriatic acid on stripped outdrive. Is it safe?

    Sanded and soda blasted and then using compressed air the paint kept peeling off with the air so I'm gonna strip it down to bear metal. What primer should I use for rustolium With epoxy rattle can paint? It looks like they have regular primer and self etching. Should I match the primer brand to...
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    Oil Gauge pinned with alarm

    I installed the Sierra 18-5899 sender alldodge recommended. Everything working good. Thats for the help all!!
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    Oil Gauge pinned with alarm

    I think I figured this out in post #17. Thanks for helping. If what I said seems wrong let me know
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    Oil Gauge pinned with alarm

    I think I figured this out. In post #10 the diagram shows 18,12, 11,13 as a tee assembly which I replaced the entire assembly. I bought 11 which is the part with the pigtails in my pic. Naturally I bought #13 which is on the tee. As it turns out 13 is the alarm by the distributor and the pic is...
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    Oil Gauge pinned with alarm

    Unplugging the wire does nothing. Stays pinned high with key on or off. Stays pinned low with engine running
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    Oil Gauge pinned with alarm

    There is only one way to attach the switches. Single push on wire on switch by distributor. If I take take that wire off the KOEO alarm stops, fuel switch by oil filter has 2 spade connectors, and the other one in pic by the fuel switch has a blue push on wire. There are no other wires and no...
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    Oil Gauge pinned with alarm

    The alarm with key on/engine off is by the distributor. If I pull off the wire the alarm stops. It also goes off when the engine starts. So I assume that's working correctly. Down by the oil filter The fuel pump switch has the 2 wires which is the only way to connect it. So I assume that's...
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    Oil Gauge pinned with alarm

    These are the two I bought and are on the motor now. Now that I see it they are OEM and according to the Mercury website they are the correct parts...Unless I made a mistake. I questioned the shape difference of the "can" shape you posted and the merc website parts guy told me they changed...
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    Oil Gauge pinned with alarm

    Right now it's pinned high with key off and with key on. With motor running it drops to zero. Nothing balances in between at any point. It's a new non OEM sender. Do these symptoms sound like a wiring issue or DOA sender? I was actually reading something about if the sender was from Europe it...
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    Oil Gauge pinned with alarm

    Thanks, will test again with motor running and post back
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    Oil Gauge pinned with alarm

    98 5.0 Two issues. Not sure if they are related. First the oil alarm goes off with key in forward, not when key is off. If I take the orange/blue wire off sender it stops. Is that definitely a bad sender or could it be a ground? Second, The oil gauge is pinned high with key on or off. I...
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    No start after engine install. Need Help!!!

    IT RUNS!!! I disconnected the tack wire from coil and tack to test. I also spread the ground pin open on the harness. In my haste I forgot to put the coil wire back on while testing each thing. So I'm not sure if it was a crusty connection at the tack (unlikely because it clean) or the ground...
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    No start after engine install. Need Help!!!

    I'm going out there now step by step with the scratch test. Just want to confirm when using a test light on the negative post of coil to see if it lights up while cranking, the test light lead goes to positive battery terminal. Also have a new distributor sensor will try out
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    No start after engine install. Need Help!!!

    This is the only before pic I have. It sure looks like only one grey wire attached to post. Got my head back there and see no other wires coming from the harness. Highly unlikely it got clipped pulling motor. The grey looking wire in the foreground is the black and for the distributor sensor...
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    No start after engine install. Need Help!!!

    Serial # 0l072052
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    No start after engine install. Need Help!!!

    In a previous post you mentioned removing the tach wire from the neg post will remove the tach as a possible issue. That is the only wire on that post. Removing it leaves nothing on that post. All my testing was done with the tach wire on. I removed it and tried it like you mentioned. It didnt...
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    No start after engine install. Need Help!!!

    I disconnected the tach wire on coil with no luck. So now there is nothing on that post. When the troubleshooting guide starts with testing the tach wire you would think they would say to disconnect it and if it starts there's your problem. Why they don't mention that I have no idea. The only...
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    No start after engine install. Need Help!!!

    I worded that bad. The troubleshooting starts with the tach wire. The engine does not start.
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    No start after engine install. Need Help!!!

    The only problem with that is it starts with tach wire which is taped into the entire wiring harness from the engine to I assume the tach. I would need to take the whole thing apart which seems like it could cause more problems for potentially nothing being the engine ran fine before. I used...
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