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    Engine mount support on a '85 Peterborough Monza Runabout-Need Help!

    I installed the new support, glassed inplace and 2 layers of 1708 wrapped around the sides and up the adjacent stringers. Is two layers enough?
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    Eastwood High Temp Internal Exhaust Coating

    Evapo-Rust, great stuff...
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    Eastwood High Temp Internal Exhaust Coating

    In my case the rust was partially caused by being used, just not in the way it should, or more precisely by what it should. Seems some mice or chipmunks (when I commented to the previous owner I could recommend a nice pellet rifle to help with his chipmunk problem, he responded that he fed...
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    Eastwood High Temp Internal Exhaust Coating

    Being that there is no "Stupid Newbie Question" topic I'll just post here in Misc. Currently rebuilding a 1985 Mercruiser 2.5L that was garage stored for years. There was a good bit of internal rust through out, including the cylinders which I had bored out +.030. Soaked everything I could in...
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    Engine mount support on a '85 Peterborough Monza Runabout-Need Help!

    Thanks, what I originally thought. BTW, got you another Avatar
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    Engine mount support on a '85 Peterborough Monza Runabout-Need Help!

    Pulled the Mercruiser 2.5L engine for a rebuild and decided to check the wood under the engine mount and found mush. Not sure what wood it is, as it was leaching black water back into the bilge it may have been a railroad tie? Pic below, had to handle it very gently not to have it come apart...
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    Harmonic Balancer on a Iron Due 120?

    Re: Harmonic Balancer on (not) a Iron Duke 120?
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    Harmonic Balancer on a Iron Due 120?

    Hi All, almost finished a teardown on a Mercruiser 2.5L on a 1985 Peterborough, fun stuff. So far I've collected about a pound of peanuts and birdseed. Hopefully it'll go to the machine shop tomorrow for a slight boring. The crankshaft pulley is rusted beyond salvation and I was wondering. Would...
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