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Get Free Mercury Gen II Shift Cables
I don’t normally throw out a lot of advertisements on our blog page but this is a pretty good deal. Mercury is currently giving away free Throttle/Shift Cables with the purchase of a 4000 or 4500 Remote Control. http://tinyurl.com/25e6tjr

How to Select a Better Propeller
Topic: Gear Ratio and Propeller Pitch Selection Guide.   Question #1: How do I select the correct gear ratio and propeller combination when upgrading my current product? Response: There is no basic answer to this question while the reality is that nothing replaces having good data to review when making selections. No matter how much estimating and calculating [...]

Used Boat Sales
The latest report released by Soundings Trade shows that used boat “Brokerage” boat sales were down a little for July 2010 as compared with July 2009. Speaking for those of us here in the Mid-West, I suspect this is due to the lack of good, high quality used boats. With the new boat sales market still [...]

Installing Closed Cooling On An Old Engine
I’ve had at least 10 people ask me about this subject again this week. I’m not sure what’s triggered the rush on this subject again this week but thought I would go ahead and provide the link to where we addressed it again for those interested. The link on the website goes into detail regarding this topic [...]

When Will The New Boat Sales Market Recover?
The latest new boat sales data seems to indicate the same thing the new housing sales market did last week; people are still not willing to spend the extra money to purchase new versus used. Everything we can see points to the fact that investing into repairs of existing boats is very worthwhile since dealers are making [...]

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Replacing your 4.3L Marine Engine Long Block

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Replacing your 1986-1996 4.3L
There is now a NEW GM direct replacement engine for the older 1986-1992 Mercruiser, OMC, and Volvo. It can be easily identified by the 12 bolt pattern intake manifold. This is a non-Vortec engine, non-balance shaft design, but with roller camshaft, fuel pump pad, and 1 piece rear main seal. The long block engines includes no intake, flywheel, balancer, or water pump.

Replacing your 1996-up 4.3L (Vortec)
In 1996 GM went with Vortec engine. It is easily recognized by the 8 bolt pattern intake manifold as compared to the pre-1996 with a 12 bolt pattern intake manifold. The 1996 & up 4.3L engines must also use an electric fuel pump. The 4.3L engine is offered with and without an intake manifold. The engine with the manifold is available with a 4 BBL or a 2 BBL intake and also includes the water pump.

4.3L Vortec Power Package
The power package comes with a complete ignition and fuel system. The reason behind the Par Pac Power Packages were to address the customers who have a pre-Vortec (12 bolt intake) engine but want to upgrade to the newer style, better performing Vortec engine. Since the pre-Vortec engines utilized a different fuel and ignition system, these components are included with the power package while the components that you can re-use from your pre-Vortec are left out which saves you money in the end. Built only on NEW GM Marine Engine Blocks, the partial power packages are manufactured to the same exacting standards as complete engine packages.

4.3L Power Packages 2 Bbl Carb
4.3L Power Packages 4 Bbl Carb

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