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Old 09-20-2011 | 10:41 AM
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i want to see engine pics thats alot of weight back there.
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Old 09-20-2011 | 10:46 AM
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Both my Fountains look like that after a few minutes of running. Have to wash the swim platform off ever time I stop to keep from tracking black soot in the boat. Always chocked it up to the exhaust swirling under the platform.
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Old 09-20-2011 | 10:48 AM
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Could be a couple of blown power valves if it just started doing it. Have the motors backfired recently?
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Old 09-20-2011 | 11:34 AM
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I'll have to wait around longer for the owner to show up next time to get more details . . . The two times that I've seen it, no one has been around.
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Old 09-20-2011 | 12:37 PM
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they are not stock power...i think he has NA potter engines.
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Old 09-20-2011 | 12:45 PM
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my stock merc 502's do that all the time
It is actually cleaner, but still some soot, when I used to run 92 ten years ago.
Now I just deal with it.
a $4 bottle of cleaner is cheaper then the price of premium
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Old 09-20-2011 | 12:50 PM
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Looks perfect to me.

It's easier to wash some soot of the transom, than it is to chisel the pistons out of the headers.
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Old 09-20-2011 | 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by cubicinches
It's easier to wash some soot of the transom, than it is to chisel the pistons out of the headers.
Awesome!
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Old 09-20-2011 | 01:13 PM
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One transom assembly doesnt match the others
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Old 09-20-2011 | 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Sydwayz
Awesome!
I've been telling guys that for years...
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