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Originally Posted by John Doe
I'm absentee owner, so I guess he just thinks I won't check.
A Whaler forum is where I found the step by step repair and tracked down the parts. My 86 Mauntauk didn't have a Teleflex system, but that is because I stupidly (got tickets for over powered) ripped the 90 Merc off it and replaced it with a used 120 Evinrude with Morse controls and steering.
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That's the sad thing, the vast majority never do!
I reckon with a 120 it must have gone right along at a pretty good clip!
I had a 90 Johnson (that I shaved the heads on because the previous owner warped them just enough to leak) and it was pretty quick. I ran it that way for 3 years, problem free, before selling it. Damn I miss that boat.
There are a couple of guys out on Block Island with 150 Mercs/Mariners on their Montauks. They definitely have a little git-up-and-go!
Just get a decal kit for a 90 Ev and no one will be the wiser. My father rebadged a 125 Force to a 90 on his 18' aluminum Starcraft CC river runner for that very reason. Although some, he and myself included, might say that a 125 Force is about equivalent to a 90 anything else anyway.
With Doel Fins it would fly, though, almost like a bass boat at speed. He was much more judicious with the "power", unlike my brother and I. That stupid thing just kept going and going and was about as simple as you can get (it was a post-Chrysler, pre-U.S. Marine model). He finally replaced it with a new Yamaha 70 which is just about right for that boat.