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Please identify this tiny brass pin?

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siluetae137

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I posted this image in another thread last week and heard crickets, so figured a stand-alone thread might generate some responses. I have not seen anything on my engines diagrams to make an exact match. The check valves have nipples that are a close match but those move vapor, i.e hollow, this pin is solid. And it might be something completely non-marine - I don't know? But it's discovery on the boat coincides with my engine quiting and suddenly "there are no coincidences" ethos kicks my overactive imagination into WOT...hey, I bet fazt would know - like everything else outboard...
Mike
 
Ohhh, amphenol pin, well I can check this off the list of sources for my engine failure.
About a month ago I found it on the cabin sole of my sailboat, ever since it's had me wondering. Esp when my kicker quit recently, I was convinced the mystery pin had something to do with it.
Kicker is 1989 4 hp Mariner #6e0-336357. The pin probably fell out of some random unrelated electronic component I was working on or cannibalizing. No worries, I found part of a crankcase lower oil seal when I pulled the lower unit a few days ago, just resting there on top of the water pump housing. So the seals going out makes sense as to why it's never quite ran right since I've owned it.

I've actually never replaced lower crankcase oil seals before so any advice would be above and beyond for either of you given this threads limited scope.
Mike
 
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