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On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, PocoLoco wrote:
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 19:23:38 -0400, PocoLoco wrote:

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 18:06:15 -0400, "*JimH*" wrote:


"Phil" wrote in message
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"Charlie Brown" wrote in message
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I have a problem with my boat. It was running fine for about 1/2 an
hour today, pulling my daughter on the tube and the motor just stopped

One my boats had a 30Amp or so breaker , I believe it was tied in with
the trim circuit , I never had a problem in that area so I don't know what
the symptoms would be, may be worth checking.....


I was thinking the same thing. When we had our '87 Scorpion w/250 hp merc
the boat died suddenly when pulling a skier.....in the end I had to push a
red reset button on the engine to get going again.


Jim, a player that handles mp3's is a great idea. Then go to
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1960s for some great music! I've got one cd with
the top
20 songs from each year of the 60's (or pretty close). It's great!

PS that's me, John H. I did a name change to give people something to **** and
moan about. But I'm turning over a new leaf (again!) after filtering Harry.
Hopefully he won't change his name also!

--
John H.
On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD

Personally, I prefer a much stricter set of filters. I use the Global
Delete option. Makes reading the group much more pleasant.

The denizens a
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Another uptight righty.

Likes his info pre-blindered.

jps

Harry Krause wrote:



What's a John Sobieski? Yet another drain-bamaged rightie? I would have
thought we've met our quota here.

This seems to be the place for them to congregate.
Maybe the word is out that the regular local members of that club need help.

Charlie wrote:
I have a problem with my boat. It was running fine for about 1/2 an hour
today, pulling my daughter on the tube and the motor just stopped dead.
No coughing, no nothing. Stopped. I tried to restart it, battery sounded
a bit weak but it turned the motor and tried to start. It weezed once or
twice, sounded like it wanted to start but wouldnt' fully start back up.
=A0 It is an OMC 350 and OMC Cobra outdrive.
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I had similar problems with my OMC Cobra w/305 engine. I changed the
50 amp fuses first, then took the 8 point cluster (on top of the engine)
apart and cleaned all the male contacts with crocus cloth (very fine
sand paper) and rolled it up in a tight roll and cleaned the female
contacts. After I did this and put it back together, everything
worked fine again. I've had to do this about every 2 years. My fuel
gauge was in-operative, too, and the cleaning restored that to
operation, too. Apparently this is a common weakness in the Cobra's,
because I've talked to others that have had problems with the 8 point
cluster. If I were a bit more electrical inclined, I would consider
bypassing the 8 point cluster with individual connectors, but I'm a bit
intimidated by that job.
..
As another poster mentioned, you could have a bad condenser or
coil. Both are cheap replacements and worth a try.


Hope this helps,
Norm