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    Foord 302 lower rebuild

    I haven't gotten my outdrive back on yet but started puttering around with the second lower that lost forward gear, like the other lower (before and after my rebuild) and I had found that the shift cable had broken just above the swivel housing. It looks like it was spliced there by the previous...
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    1976 Ford 302 Lower Re-build

    My fuel filter came in, so I took the old one out and made an adjustable bracket for the new filter out of the old bracket, as it is a tight fit and I wanted a little wiggle room. I also figured out my tilt problem. My wiring was just fine, but I forgot that I had put in a 50-amp in-line fuse...
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    1976 Ford 302 Tilt problems

    I was getting my boat ready to take out to complete my sea trials and the outdrive wouldn't tilt up. This has been an intermittent problem recently, so I thought it was a short grounding it out. Deciding to be a big boy and work it out myself, I did some diagnosis. Droid said to jump across the...
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    Ask Grok...

    I didn't get out this weekend, as I have a bit of a cold, but I did ask Grok, Elon Musk's AI tool, about some questions I had about my Ford 302's performance standards. The more specific I got, the more exact the answers were with all of my up-graded components. I had some questions about If I...
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    1976 Ford 302 carburator problems (was lower re-build)

    My lower rebuild went well, and I installed it back on my boat and looks like it is functioning, but the engine is running terribly - it won't idle. I can just get it down to about 2000 rpm and it start to miss and it dies at about 1500 rpm. In taking off the spark arrestor, I see gas squirting...
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    1976 lower re-build. (Was 302 pops...)

    Sorry to keep you in suspense, but I have been waiting for replacement parts in order to understand how to get this locknut off of the drive shaft so that I can get to the forward shift mechanism in back. I first ordered a Sierra locknut, but it didn't look like what I was seeing in my unit, so...
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    302 Pops and trys to die at top end ( was "newly overhauled 302 won't start".)

    Well, I put in a new fuel pump. fuel filter and had changed the anti-siphon valve to an oversized one, new fuel line and blew out the fuel feed into the tank, all 3/8", including the fittings, took it to the ocean, and it did the same thing. After full throttle applied, it took several minutes...
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    Newly overhauled 1976 Ford 302 won't start

    No joy yet. I tried about 20 times at 20 seconds each and no go. I had plenty of batteries throughout, which is the good news. Sometimes I tried twisting the distributer 10 degrees one way and 10 degrees the other and it always sounded best right in the middle of where I found the 10 degree...
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    Blew another seloniod on 1976 Ford 302

    I did some exploratory and found that the black 8 gauge wire attached to the starter side of the selonoid is the negative ground to the gauges, and the red 8 gauge wire on the battery side powers up the key switch (B) and the gauges. Still not sure where the wire from the (S) terminal goes...
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    1976 Ford 302 selonoid problems

    I have a newly overhauled 1976 ford 302 cid marine in a 1977 crusers 206. The engine is very slow cranking and stops cranking after anout 15 seconds on a full charge of 14.2 volts. It stops cranking at 12.8 volts. I have burnt out four starter selonoids, so it is a wring problem is right around...
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