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    Alpha One Water Pump

    Hi, last year at draindown I filled the block with antifreeze with small hose (water heater take off) lifted above the engine and filled until the fluid level was in the hose above the engine. This year the antifreeze starts to run out of the leg at the water intake at about 2-3 gallons?? The...
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    Bilge Option

    What's the downside of taking an automatic bilge pump and wiring the manual override wire threw another separate float switch, powered with the positive feed to the other(built in) float switch? Belt and Suspenders or Dumb Disaster? Best K
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    Gimbal Bearing

    If you have the engine out (86 260/350), can you just tap the gimbal bearing out from the inside with a long drift?
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    Coupling option

    My 86 260 alpha 1 had the bulb shaped coupler (no grease fitting). Can the triangle plate coupling kit (spline shaft included) be used instead? It is engine A400584 and has the 12 3/4 flywheel. If I pull the outdrive every year do I need it? Thanks
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    Upper oil seal

    Alpha 1 1986 Can the lower seal be replaced from the bottom w/o pulling the gears? Can the upper seal be replaced w/o pulling the lower bearing race? Can the upper gears be reassembled using the old shims w/o re-setting the lash? Thanks
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    SBC lift points

    What is the best way to get a lift chain on a SBC 260V8, 86 vintage, for coupling replace?
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    Shift Cable Query

    After trying all winter to armchair diagnose a slipping, and then no, reverse (Alpha One 86) I heeded the advice of our forum members to just pull the thing apart and look carefully at all the linkage before you go dogs and gears $$$. Good advice, because although everything was within tolerance...
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    Starter Spec

    My 1986 Mercruiser 350 V-8 (260 0A400584) shows two starters for two flywheels (12 3/4 & 14 dia) in all the parts listings. Is there an easy way to check the dia? Is there a better method? I think this was also the year they changed the rear main. I would also like to ID the rear main. Thanks
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    Water Seperation

    Does a fuel/water separator work like a sediment bowel with a drain at the bottom (where fuel will always follow after the water) or does it actually separate the water into a separate area with a drain? In the last case, if there was no water, nothing would exit the drain and fuel would never...
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    Two PS Questions

    The power steering pump on my 86 350 may, or may not, have the correct power steering pump cap. I have two questions? 1; There is no dip tube so can anyone give me the correct cold fluid level from cap rim to top of fluid? 2: There is no vent of any kind in the cap, so where does the system...
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    Lower end dog check

    86 Alpha/350V8. It appears that by removing the prop, the big retainer nut and the bearing carrier you can inspect both reverse dogs. You may also be able to measure the actual dog throw as pushed or pulled from the helm. Is this true? I have both the retainer nut wrench and the puller tool...
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    Coil

    Is the coil on a mercruiser V8 electronic ignition different than the coil on a chevy V8 electronic ignition? The older automobile coils would crank on full voltage and, using a resistor, run on a lower voltage. Does the mercruiser engine, which does not have a resistor, crank and run at a...
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    Foreign or Domestic

    Are the OEM and the SEI sterndrive replacements equally reliable?
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    Alpha One Dogs

    My Alpha One driven by a Mercruiser 260 has slowly lost reverse, click,click,click under load. I have all the cables correct and 1/2 inch play in the cable that goes to outdrive from the engine top. Yesterday I had someone slowly move the helm control until the dogs started to rub when turning...
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