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earico · Jul 21, 2020

SID297 said:
I'm not a fan of Mercruiser. I have a pair of 6.2 MPIs and everything Mercruiser added to the base SBC is a pain to work on and mostly stupidly engineered. The best inboard gas engines going now are Ilmor. For older stuff, give me Crusaders any day.

My 2005 Mercruiser has been nothing but great. I do all my own maintenance and find it easy. The hardest thing is the raw water pump impeller. About a 4 hour job start to finish taking my sweet time.

SID297 · Jul 22, 2020

earico said:
My 2005 Mercruiser has been nothing but great. I do all my own maintenance and find it easy. The hardest thing is the raw water pump impeller. About a 4 hour job start to finish taking my sweet time.

The crank driven pump on volvos make the impeller change a 15 minute job. Wait until you get to rebuild that POS Mercruiser raw water pump.

earico · Jul 22, 2020

SID297 said:
The crank driven pump on volvos make the impeller change a 15 minute job. Wait until you get to rebuild that POS Mercruiser raw water pump.

I have. That's exactly what I said takes me 4 hours taking my sweet time. Only hard thing to do on my boat.

SID297 · Jul 22, 2020

earico said:
I have. That's exactly what I said takes me 4 hours taking my sweet time. Only hard thing to do on my boat.

You did the bearings and seals? It's amazing what a POS that thing is. I get it, they want to sell you a $600 pump when A $4 seal fails. I used this rebuild kit:

https://amzn.to/3hr9PDo

earico · Jul 22, 2020

SID297 said:
You did the bearings and seals? It's amazing what a POS that thing is. I get it, they want to sell you a $600 pump when A $4 seal fails. I used this rebuild kit:

https://amzn.to/3hr9PDo

I have not changed the bearings or seals. Haven't needed to yet. Since I remove the whole pump to redo the impeller I don't see it being much more difficult to press that out and press in new bearings.

beau t · Jul 22, 2020

Bought a rebuild pump kit for my Mercruiser with the shaft and seals for i think 70$ have changed the raw impeller 4 times i have it down to 2 hrs - - side note - - if i had another elbow half way down my arm i could prob get it down to an hour lol.

01yellercobra · Jul 22, 2020

01yellercobra said:
My boat has been the cheapest vehicle I've owned since we bought it. And until this year has been dead reliable. I think it just has a corroded connection somewhere, but I'm too fat and lazy to go looking for it. So I'll be taking it to a mechanic to have it fixed.

It's a 2005 21.5' Sea Ray 200 Sport. Has the Mercruiser (Chevy) 5.0 in it. Tops out about 45mph. Has enough power to throw my kids around on tubes and a tank of gas usually lasts all day. We bought it used back in 2012 with 50 hours on it. I think we're up to 135 now. We don't get to take out as much as we like, but it's still fun to have.

Felt like I should follow up after the mechanic visit. Naturally it worked great. He had it about 3 hours and everytime he turned the key it fired right up. Hopefully I'll be able to get it in the water before the temps drop.

Steve@TF · Jul 23, 2020

“If it floats, flies or ****s, rent it”

Words to live by my man

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nxhappy · Jul 23, 2020

honestly a jet drive is the best way to go to avoid the stern drive bullshit. A jet will suck more gas but is WAY cheaper on repairs. If a merc or volvo goes out, that's $3000-4000. Outboards are even worse.

nxhappy · Jul 23, 2020

Steve@TF said:
“If it floats, flies or ****s, rent it”

Words to live by my man

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or buy a cheap boat, rent it, and make $1000 in 2 days hahaha

BUNKY · Aug 3, 2020

Anyone fishing the WMO ?
That 92 viking would be nice right now

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beau t · Aug 3, 2020

Pic I took Saturday Check out the clouds hovering below the mountain

coposrv · Aug 11, 2020

BUNKY said:
Anyone fishing the WMO ?
That 92 viking would be nice right now

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Ha. There not too many of them. I think only 12 built so far? A 92’ Viking “China girl” was in Newport RI a few weeks ago. Insane machine.

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