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Larry Larry is offline
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Default Help Choosing a Thermostat

" wrote in
oups.com:

120 degree is kind of low temperature and is supposed
to be for people who like to run the motor at slow speed -- as in
trolling.


Trolling? Hey! You could run that motor on rec.boats!....(c

Let's step back a moment.......

How old is this motor? How many years did it run without overheating on a
thermostat marked "120"? How many heavy repairs and blown powerheads did
you say it had had?

If the answer is long years and little trouble....why screw around changing
what works great?!

(Am I the only one that notices those LONG running antique outboard motors
that just keep going and going and going that have NO THERMOSTAT?)


Larry
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Is sending glassware via USPS considered "baiting"?