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12-17-2017
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Lake Bluff, IL
Posts: 2,096
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Re: LT5 Build
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Probably right. I grew up on Long island sound running fast (then) boats with Mercury outboards. Was an amateur Merc mechanic in my teens. Taking off the water jacket of our engines revealed a lot of crystalline corrosion inside. Often when you got the stainless steel bolts out the holes would have to be drilled out and redone with HeliCoils. Granted this was in the sixties so the aluminum technology was probably not as good as it is now. But salt water is tough on aluminum motors. --Bob
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