Mercury Through The Years...

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[Dave Strong]

Why is that boat running with the drive all the way up?
Dave

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...mercruiser brochure photo. possibly to promote the underwater thru-prop exhaust feature, that other sterndrives did not have. that thru-transom exhaust, as was on a lot of the small donzi's, like this little 16, is simply an option? not really a good idea to run a drive like this normally though, as the input shaft & u-joint assembly is always spinning, even while simply in neutral, and can nick the rubber bellows...

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[QUOTE=FUJIMO;3348123]...mercruiser brochure photo. possibly to promote the underwater thru-prop exhaust feature, that other sterndrives did not have. that thru-transom exhaust, as was on a lot of the small donzi's, like this little 16, is simply an option? not really a good idea to run a drive like this normally though, as the input shaft & u-joint assembly is always spinning, even while simply in neutral, and can nick the rubber bellows...[/QUOTE
You mean your not supposed to do this.

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[bernie]

Why is that boat running with the drive all the way up?
Dave

Because he wants to take out his gimbal bearing -

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[moparbarn]

Dogs & boats just go together. Sebastian loved to go fishing, RIP little buddy.