So they're slow. Just look at some of their other rube-goldburg
engineering. Water pump requiring frequent servicing buried in the
middle of the outdrive. Shifting gears in the bottom of the outdrive.
Engine "stall" shift mechanism.

trainfan1 wrote:
James wrote:
Only if they carry marine stuff. That merc was specific to boats and never
had an auto equivilent except that it used some parts from the 460. Merc
quickly figured out

and it only took 14 model years... '76 to '89...

Rob


it didn't really want to be in the engine building
business and went back to gm and ford.

"Tim" wrote in message
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I didn't know that... thanks!

But I suppose my point is that a good auto parts store should be able
to come up with the goods.