Mercruiser Message Board Needed - A GOOD ONE

[gigolot]

The best way to align your shaft is to coat the allignment tool with grease and insert it into the spline. Pull it out and see if the grease is uniform around the alignment tool. Different manufactuers have different tolerences but atleast this way you can see how close it is versus just sliding it in.

[spareparts]

the mercruiser manuals are some of the best manuals i've ever used, do a search online, there are lots of people that are selling e-maunals on disc or download, i havent used them myself, but i know a couple of people that have them and they are a reprint of the factory stuff. Rhinda Technologies sells the factory authorized versions, they also sell scan tools for EFI engines. If that I-6 in your boat has been in salt its whole life, save yourself time and money, and repower with a new or freshwater setup, that thing will eat up your wallet with repairs

[spareparts]

if you are dissapointed in Mercruiser for their lack of information regarding an engine they haven't used in 25 years, you oought to deal with some of the other manufactures, the Japanese manufactures give out nothing! Their manuals just don't translate well, and the parts are confusing. Before bomb, OMC would just act like they never built some of their disasters, even if it was a couple of years old, their manuals were pretty good, just the information given was usually incorrect.

[1bayouboy]

Not specifically a plug..but...

if you surf out to www.go-fast.com and select the merc parts
then the search with pictures, you can get to what looks like everything they ever made with diagrams and part numbers. The drawing on those older inline 6's aren't great, but they do show assembly breakdowns with part numbers. They also have good prices.....

[ThePHNX]

if you surf out to www.go-fast.com and select the merc parts
then the search with pictures, you can get to what looks like everything they ever made with diagrams and part numbers. The drawing on those older inline 6's aren't great, but they do show assembly breakdowns with part numbers. They also have good prices.....

AND

outdrive shop

Excellent referrals, both, thanks guys.

Now to me this (these referred sites) are SMART business. I know that I will buy from them even if a little higher (which they may not be) because they GIVE helpful information

HBH.

[ThePHNX]

if you are dissapointed in Mercruiser for their lack of information regarding an engine they haven't used in 25 years, you oought to deal with some of the other manufactures, the Japanese manufactures give out nothing! Their manuals just don't translate well, and the parts are confusing. Before bomb, OMC would just act like they never built some of their disasters, even if it was a couple of years old, their manuals were pretty good, just the information given was usually incorrect.

My impression is that you are correct: with the exception of legitimate engine manufacturers, Cat', Allison, Volvo, etc. it seems as if the manufacturers insist on treating us like amateurs who should take our machines to one of their service centers. It's all about money and making it a one way flow - all to the mercenaries.
Maybe if they spent some time on boards like this they'd wise up. Seems to me a lot of the guys (& Gals) LIKE doing their own work, and further seem fully capable of doing it.
My compliments to you for sharing good advice freely, but, loyal as you may be to Mercury I think you have to admit you are the exception.
Oh, and BTW: the tradition I'm familiar with does not accept the orphaning of a product because of age, that's Bill Gates crap.
One last question, I have a high opinion of Honda, where do they stand in terms of making GOOD information available. Will tell you this, whether its Nikon `America' or Honda `America' there is a tremendous difference between the parent company and the hucksters who buy their way in via national franchising. this wasn't always so but became thus the past score of years, actually the corruption began around the 70's from personal experience


HBH

[Finster]

PHNX, I can see your a man in the know. I'm in the final stages of rebuilding a Detroit 892V, and at the point of setting the rack, could use a little input.

Thanks for any info.

[ThePHNX]

Sorry Phnster, last I turned a wrench or got grease under my fingernails for a living was before I got my first engineering degree: over 50 year's ago. Since then its just been tinkering with my own machinery; cars, motorcycles, and airplanes, closest I ever came to a Freightliner was a Unimog.

Try truckdriver.org or greasemonkey.com then there's freightliner.edu

[ThePHNX]

That's good news. Will go with the Merck Manuals (pun intended).
Engine running fine, was operated in brackish water (Albemarle, Pamlico, etc.) Flushed diligently and not left in water (kept on lift or trailer).
Just want manuals now for doing the proper maintenance; locating grease fittings and lube spots.

As to e-manuals: always ask the seller/publisher if they are merely raster scans rather than proper text conversions. So far when I've seen such ads and asked the answer has been raster which means they are not searchable content.

Raster scans are pictures of words and the computer can't distinguish them for meaning.
In many ways such CD's or DVDs are less useful than a printed book, hard on the eyes and fuzzy printouts.
HBH