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Thanks, I had often wondered about what happened when you erased the run time history or restarted the break in period. Yes, this old girl has been around the block a time or two.

When checking the run history of a 200 Optimax the other day the total run hours displayed was 3011 hours. But when we looked at the RPM break down in hours, these hours were no where close to 3011...

Thanks....point taken. I didn't mean for my comment to sound like I was trying to stir up a bashing fest for Mercury engines. Thousands....probably tens of thousands of people use this river every...

I really didn't see evidence that a ring caught the edge of of the exhaust port. I can see the outer ring somewhat and it looks to be intact not sure about the other one though. Most of the damage to...

US Navy, RD2 from 1964-1968 aboard USS Coral Sea CVA 43. Two tours off the Viet Nam coast also spent a few months duty at Da Nang communications base.

here are the pics of the fuel rail injector ports.

And by the way, those close up views of the head where the injector is shiny, I scraped off the crud with a stick. They were black and covered...

Here are some more....

Looking at the thermostat pic I guess that explains why the port spark plugs were so black and fouled looking.

The only cylinder that showed damage was the # 4 hole. I...

Well I got a chance to pull it into the shop and start the tear down. here are some pics of what I found. I'll have to re-size the rest to get them to post.

Sorry :yesnod: I guess that is a carry over from back when I used to write service orders. I always wrote down everything a customer had to say and then probed them for more once they had finished,...

I agree, starting down that road now. One thing I noticed while we were on the water is that the exhaust housing was really warm and when I pulled the lower unit I could see that the exhaust seal at...

Thanks....I plan on trying to get it back in my shop sometime today or tomorrow before this snowy mess gets here this weekend. I will pull those parts and give it a look see although I'm not too sure...

Sorry I left off the, 1B should have read 1B505533......I hate getting old.:laugh:

I might also add that this was a police boat to begin with. They had repowered the boat with this engine and they...

I've been working on a 200 3.0L OptiMax engine serial # <EDIT: 1B505533>, for a young fellow that must have the worst luck in the world. He's bought two used boats in the past 2 1/2 years and both...

When I first closed up my business I tried to sell all my inventory, tools and used parts I had piled up over the past 25 years. The best offer I got on my hard parts inventory roughly $45,000.00 was...

Would that be the Smartcraft ver. 1.3, I think it is? I don't have it here with me right now. And yes I have been looking into a couple different options I just have to decide if it is worth the...

I was in the boat business but had to shut down in 2004. I knew Mercury was updating to a new computer based diagnostic system and they sent me the latest and what they said was the last update for...

Hey Thanks a bunch, that saved me a trip to mechanicsville to leave a note on his door for him to call me.

I know this is an old thread but I was hoping someone might know Woody's cell number. I lost my phone that had his number in it and I can't find his number anywhere. The number in the book goes...