Mercruiser Message Board Needed - A GOOD ONE

[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