Hello guys,
I need some advice here. I have a 85 hp Chrysler that is giving me a hard start issue. It also likes to stall our at an idle. I have taken the carbs apart and ultrasonically cleaned them. I have synced the linkage based off of Franks video. All the carbs were started at 1/3 turn out...
My merc keeps comming out of time and I am pretty sure the belt is slipping. Is there a way to tighten it and where can I buy a new belt. I have tried looking around online with no luck. It is a merc 650 from 1968.
OK I have a merc 650 and am having some troubles. I have Great spark and recently cleaned the carbs on the motor. She just wont fire unless fuel is sprayed through the spark plug holes. WHEN IT DOES POP/RUN IT IS VERY FAINT. I was hardly ably to tell it was fireing except for being able to see...
I have a 1988 15 hp johnson. I just got the motor and it was overheating after I would run it full throttle for a few minutes. The tell tale turned into steam. So I put in a new impellar the old one was bad I peed better but still had the same problem. I than pulled the powerhead and cleaned out...
I plan on swapping lower unit on a mercury 650 4cyl i have both motors complete how can i sync the shifting gear linkage with the two so that they arent off.
I have a 9.5 evinrude that I had just purchased. It only had 50lb of compression on both the top and bottom cylinder. I put some oil in the plug holes and the compression went to 60 psi. I than took the cylinder head off and saw that the powerhead had been honed out at one point in time. the...
I was running a merc 4 cyl 650 with 2 carbs and noticed that it started to bogg down a little. So i squeezed he primer ball and it was soft. I was able to squeeze it several times before it got firm. After a few squeezes the RPM's did pick up and the motor went back to a nice idle. I was told...
i had just got a 1951 mercury wizard. It has excellent spark and the compression but I cant get this thing to run. all it wants to do is backfire. i have tried switching the plug wires with no sucess. Any help would be great. I am also hoping to find a how to on the older merc. ignitions.
I have a 3 hp mercury. It is a 2003 i just changed the impellar and it pumps water great until the motor starts to warm up. than it is steam out of the pea hole. I am running j4c's.
I am trying to find out the torque needed on the drive shaft bearing right below the impeller housing. It is a 1998 200hp mercury. the bearing is a timken bearing. Serra part number 18-1143.
I need to replace the driveshaft bearing on a 200hp 1998 mercury. the lower unit is already dropped and I see the bearing, Which is destroyed, what other damages could of happened there was a little bit of shavings in the LU but not enough to worry about. How hard is it to replace this and is...
Does anyone know where I can find a diagram to the red wiring harnesses for the johnson and evinrude motors. I am trying to find out which prongs are for the choke,start,stop. etc.
well i changed the propshaft on a merc 18hp. the last one was bent. after i got it together it was running really rough. so i took it back out of the water and saw lots of shavings on the magnet screw. any idea on what could be happening it actually sounds like it was trying to engage while...
Im messing with a 50hp johnson I went to start it with a set of jumper cables. I hooked the battery side pos to pos, and neg to neg. I than grounded the neg to the powerhead and touched the pos to the little nipple on the starter. the starter began to spin but in the wrong direction. I instantly...
