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    I Have Seen It All NOW!!!

    A guy on fb says his "Mercury Dealer" set him up to try this.....supposedly to gain holeshot and improve handling!!!!

    "WTF"....he needs a new dealer and Merc needs to know this!!!!!

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    The "old double thrust washer" trick. Before I knew better I tried this deal. Puts a lotta load on the prop shaft and does very little if anything for performance. Prop might go Bye, bye if the shaft fails.

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    Yeah, but it looks sooo cool, kinda like the dude with their pants down to their ankles
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    Quote Originally Posted by flabum1017 View Post
    Yeah, but it looks sooo cool, kinda like the dude with their pants down to their ankles
    HAHAHA....OK, now he says he was just bringing humor into the group!!!

    Well, he did that....after about 200 comments, can we say April Fool's!!!

    Looks like even the young and dumb one's even knew better....just didn't look right to me with 2" of spacers and only 1" of threads!!!
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    I saw it being used on some serious racing boats with tiny cleaver props with non shifting cases. It was for more bow lift before the advent of the jack plate. LOOOONG time ago. I tried it on my 1500XS/Allison combo. It gave more bow lift, but I didn't need it. Merc tech bud of mine saw it and told me the problems it would cause.

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    Quote Originally Posted by flabum1017 View Post
    Yeah, but it looks sooo cool, kinda like the dude with their pants down to their ankles
    Did you ever see how they do that? Attachment 403631
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    Quote Originally Posted by flabum1017 View Post
    Yeah, but it looks sooo cool, kinda like the dude with their pants down to their ankles
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    I used to work for a guy who raced OPC back in the '60's. They threw him out of a race for putting a nose cone on the lower. So, for the next race he said that he put the cone in front of the lower somehow, attached to the boat. He said it worked and there was nothing they could do about it. Well, I would like to have seen a pic of that set up!!
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    Mark, I like your pic.....I worked for a marine dealer in Tulsa back around 69-70 who was also a Chrysler dealer when that 135 came out! It sure was a pretty thing with those stacks but pretty well looked the same as the others when you popped the top!
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    135, just noticed the larger TC carbs and adapters were switched out to smaller WB carbs. Likely a carb switch to help driveability economy for a pleasure boat use.
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    Isn't it amazing how simple things used to be.....back before....!!!
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