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    You could buy my running one for less than a G and have all the spare parts you want!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark75H View Post
    A second thought about the tach ... you might already have a switchable tach. If so, changing over would just be a matter of changing where the tach input wire is hooked on the motor and switching the selector switch on the back of the tach. That would be sweet.
    Best bet is a new tach anyway..on the IL6, they are yer friend. When I built the flatty, I bought a Faria Tach..did what said the right pole setting, and at idle showed 2500. Did some switching, and got it normal.

    Get a good Tach, or have a damn good ear..(trust the tach though!)

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    Just for kicks, heres some pix, old black Merc controls. The switch, inside the box. Not sure if lousy insulation, sitting out in the rain, but many black boxes are like this.




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    Heres the solution, for hard start old Mercs..

    The enrichner can be snagged off lots of mid-late '80s + Mercs or OMCs.
    Remove the choke butterflies.
    Hang the enrichner somewhere in the cowl.
    Two wires. Ground & the choke wire.
    Plumb the top carb for the enrichner.
    Run a small hose from the top carb to the enrichner.
    Run another small hose to the crankcase balance tube assembly and plumb into it so that when you push the choke button the enrichner opens and allows either prime bulb pressure or fuel pump pressure to push fuel out of the top carb's flaot chamber and directly into the crankcase behind the reeds.
    Pump up the prime bulb,...Spin the starter,...Once it starts to spin,...Push the choke button and tah-dah,...Virtually instant start-up. Engine starts to starve and stall,...Push the choke button and more instant fuel into the crankcase and quickly sucked into the combustion chambers.
    Very cool.
    By 'plumb the enrichner into the top carb' I mean,...Once the choke butterflies are removed, remove the stud that the butterfly pivots on, drill the bottom of the stud's hole through into the float chamber so that when the float chamber is full of gas it can exit through the stud hole and go to the enrichner and consequently the balance tube and then the crankcase.
    Take a piece of brass tube (like an old control cable end that has adjustment threads on it and a hole in the middle for the control cable to pass through) Put 1/4 x 20 NC threads on one end,...Turn the other end to be a barbed fitting for small tubing and assemble.
    I put my drill motor in a vise and use it as a 'lathe' to 'machine' the barbed fitting with files.
    To 'plumb into the balance tube system',...There are three fittings starboard of the carburetors. A 90 at the top, a Tee in the middle, and another 90 at the bottom. Two sections of 5/16" fuel hose get pushed on to connect these fittings.
    I simply drill a hole for a small barbed fitting in the center of the Tee for the enrichner tubing.
    Make sense?

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    Couple pix, my Merc build...somehow, some way, they have SO much "class"! Like an old Harley, which own 3..."If I had to explain, you would not understand!"




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    . Nice

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark75H View Post
    . Nice
    Sounds good too!..Thanks....(wish I could run "stacks"...gotta love that IL6 .."scream!"

    I remember a long time ago, at 16,1966, drag raced a 57 650 Triumph motorcycle, Oswego, Ill. Some dude had an Merc IL6, laid sideways, in a dragbike!
    Too young to remember much, but the announcer said it was a 6 CYL Merc outboard motor, with a 3 speed trans. Short open pipes, how the hell cooled, no idea, maybe just a fast blast, and shut down.
    DAMN! Did that thing SCREAM. Been hooked ever since! I gotta see if I can find any vid it...that was the EJ Potter days, when ya shoved a V-8, in a spindly frame, and hoped!

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    Not sure if this worked, first time trying to attach a photo.





    New Boat.pdf

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    Well the first time didn't work, here we go again with the pic.

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    Looks great! I've always loved the looks of these Carlsons , a friend used to have a 140 mercruiser version of this hull always looked factory fresh and nice interior finish. The Caddy of that era, I6 is perfect for that boat.

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    For the price, I just couldn't pass it up. Everything is there, mostly waterlogged, but there none the less. Like I said, I love a project and with the help you can get on this site, it won't be that bad.

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    On the ADI motors set the timing to 21* cranking which is 19* at wot. On the dist motors set them to 19*
    Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KeithAB View Post
    Well the first time didn't work, here we go again with the pic.

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    Ya can't go wrong there at that price!

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    Looks like you could use a cowel refurbish like this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by baldad45 View Post
    Looks like you could use a cowel refurbish like this.
    Don't get me started on louvered XS "wraps",...hard to find now..AND THE ORIG decals...best wrap made!, ..as the decals!

    Thing is, they fit all , or most..old IL6's, and many had a wrap, saying a 115, or else, when the beast under it...:"ANYTHING BUT"..Wanna punch it off..?..Its only a 115hp"..! HA!!!!!!!11
    My Merc Guru has a "Franken Merc, with a Mariner block" under a XS wrap. On a G-3. need to post a pic...blows the people away! Probably shoving a good 160 HP....pic a sec..

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