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Default plugs look too "wet"

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On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:33:17 +0000, Larry wrote:

When I sold a 150hp 6-cyl Merc Sport Jet with 3 deuces carbs on it,
having run its whole life on 25:1, you could still see the hone marks
on the cylinder walls and every bearing in the crankcase was as tight
as new.... (c;...hundreds of hours later after running wide open all
that time.


If it was running so well why was anyone looking at bearings and
cylinder walls?


I have a borescope and the guy who wanted to buy it wanted to see?

Will that do?