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    Interesting find behind thrust washer

    I was doing some maintenance to the motor, its a 1986ish Mercury inline 6, and I pulled the prop to check to see if there was any line wrapped around the shaft and to re-grease the shaft and found these two things wedged behind the thrust washer between it and the inside edge of the lower unit...
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    Camping with a boat

    The wife and I are looking at going camping for her birthday the second week of June. We are looking at one of three local lakes that have state camp ground sites. The problem is that this is the first time we will be camping with our boat. Not all of the latches lock as it is an older boat. How...
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    gasket for a switch plate

    I have made a new switch plate for the bow of my boat that holds a few switches and a 12 V receptacle. It is made out of a piece of cold steel from Lowes that I have painted and am wondering if I need to make a gasket of some sort to keep water from getting behind it and if so what should it be...
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    What's New?

    I may be weird but I like to browse forums using the What's New link. My issue is that when you are browsing the new posts and I want to refresh it, the What's New link isn't available so you have to either go into a thread or go back to the main forum page. Is there a way to add the What's...
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    Picking a prop for Mercury 115 Tower of Power

    I have a 1986-87 115 that is still kind of flaky. I finally got it running ok and went out today to go fishing and hit something or maybe the prop just decided to crack because I didn't see anything on my graph but that's neither here nor there. I am planning on getting a direct replacement of...
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    1986 Merc 115 inline 6 losing power

    Sorry for the long post. I tried to put in all the information I have so that maybe we can come up with something to try easier. I have a merc 115 inline 6 that I bought with my boat. I have taken the boat out a few times and have had a few issues from just getting it started to keeping it...
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