I was having issues getting my engine to run correctly earlier this year and was eventually able to straighten it out. During all my trial and error of starting the boat, the starter started making a grinding noise then stopped engaging altogether. I removed the starter and saw the starter...
Last year the boat ran great. I fogged the engine and ran stabil through the gas. This year I can't get the boat to idle down or start easily. If the boat starts it runs great over 1500 rpm. If I try to idle down, it stalls.
I Added 10 gal fresh gas to the existing 7 gals of gas and changed...
I have an 89 3.0 with the DDIS on it. I have been having trouble with engine power lately. It starts great, idles great but when I give it gas either there is not much power or there is a backfire into the carb. Sometimes after the backfire the engine runs better and has more power. When I do...
I am having power and hesitation issues with my 89 3.0 with the DDIS system. My tach is also frequently thousands of rpm's off. I read a couple places that the correct reading of the tach is important to the DDIS system.
Where do I begin to troubleshoot this? I cannot find much documentation...
I have a 1989 3.0L
The boat was last run about a month ago and the only issue was some slight missing at lower RPM's. But otherwise I had plenty of power to pull tubers with people on the boat.
Fast forward to this past weekend I took the boat on a big trip and experienced problems.
Very...
Re: 1989 3.0 low speed hesitation
Thanks. The only filter I found was the one on the fuel pump and this is what was inside when I opened it. What is that, and it is normal? I thought there would be a paper filter. I do not see any other filter. It's an 89 Chaparral 17' open bow and the fuel...
I have an 89 3.0 Distributorless engine that recently began hesitation when trying to maintain rpm's around the 1500 mark. This went on for about 8 hours of boating and eventually started happening when cruising around 2800 rpm's as well, but the hesitation is not as bad. Starting and...
I replaced my trim sender and limit switches. When I got into the boat to connect the wires the limit wires were cut shortly after entering the transom. I looked at the Mercruiser manual to see where they go but the info just isn't sinking in. Where would they connect to? Do I follow the wires...
I am tearing apart a 1989 Alpha one to do a bellows job. while in there I am going to replace a trim switches, and gimbal bearing. I also noticed gear oil in the u-joint bellow so I am going to look at the yoke but I don't have the special tool yet to tear it apart.
My drive has the two bolts...
