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    250CI MerCruiser Question

    The points are new and set correctly,I just need a new coil. The motor fired before and the coil wasn't changed but I know nothing about the coil and I know it's really old so I want it changed anyway. If someone knows the correct coil can you please let me know which one to buy,I also need...
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    250CI MerCruiser Question

    I have a 250CI MerCruiser in a 1973 StarCraft,I'm pretty certain that my coil is bad because I'm not getting any spark. My problem is the person that had this boat before me put a Chrysler ignition coil on it with a ballast resistor. I want to put it back to the way it should be but I can't...
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    Need help finding controls for Mercury Sterndrive.

    If the old switch's are shot we will give those a try.
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    Need help finding controls for Mercury Sterndrive.

    Can you send a link to the push button's for the panel,I have no idea where to start as the boat is from 1972 or 1973 and we have nothing no manual at all.
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    Need help finding controls for Mercury Sterndrive.

    The pump makes a bit of a noise but not much of one when the top button is pushed. We never tried pushing the middle button and the top or bottom one at the same time,were going to try that next and we do have power.
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    Need help finding controls for Mercury Sterndrive.

    I will tell my friend to give that a try,I know that the guy that he purchased the boat from doesn't remember everything correctly and he never told my friend about anything like that. It makes sense with 3 button's being there now if that's what your supposed to do like it's a safety feature...
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    Need help finding controls for Mercury Sterndrive.

    My friend has a 23 foot Starcraft Chieftain and he is restoring it and his controls to raise and lower the sterndrive are not working at all and were sure the switch's are bad,the boat was left beside a bush for 15 years and never touched and my friend got the boat for 500 bucks and was in great...
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    Need help with a Mercruiser sterndrive and the trim sending unit.

    That's problem the serial number isn't there.
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    Need help with a Mercruiser sterndrive and the trim sending unit.

    My friend has a 1974 or at least that the best guess as to what he has because we are going off the year of the boat. He has sterndrive unit with a 250 Chevy engine and the problem is with the trim sending unit,on his boat it use's hinge pins that have to be taken out with a slide hammer and...
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    Need help with a Merc Alpha One Gen 1 from 1974

    I was wondering if anyone can give me a part number or tell me where to get the hydraulic hose's that go from the block found on the bottom side of the stern to the cylinders,we have the same cylinders that's shown in the video where the lines go into the cylinder at the one end closest to the...
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    Need help with a Merc Alpha One Gen 1 from 1974

    It's just the gasket and a few other parts I think I will need help with finding out what version they are and where to find them,I have already found bellows and all the other stuff like that in kits and know it's for the stern drive my friend has.
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    Need help with a Merc Alpha One Gen 1 from 1974

    No racoons happened they tore every single wire apart and the transom is rotted,the boat sat for 20 years beside a bush because the previous owner parked it at a friends place and just left it there and my friend got the boat for $500.00
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    Need help with a Merc Alpha One Gen 1 from 1974

    My friend got a 1974 or 1975 Starcraft Chieftain 24 and we had to take the stern drive off and we need to find out a few things. The stern drive is an Alpha 0ne Gen 1 and when we took the gimbal housing off of hull there was a cork like gasket between the gimbal housing and the hull and we can...
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