Help with identifying my motor by serial #

Good morning:

I have a Mariner 40m 6E9 S serial 009120

I can't seem to find a year (someone wrote 1988 in the manual???).

It looks like it is in the range where Yamaha built it for Merc.

When I look up parts I don't know what to look for Yamaha or Merc or ?

My lower end unit won't go into neutral or reverse. It becomes difficult to know where to look here.

Any help would be appreciated.

Re: Help with identifying my motor by serial #

Comes up as:

40 M 6E9-008626 - 6E9-009890 1988

From here:

http://www.marinshopen.se/Motorer/O...årslista/Mariner4055hp/tabid/461/Default.aspx

Parts listing for s/ns 6E9-007666 thru 6E9-015000:

http://www.crowleymarine.com/mercury-outboard/338.cfm

Gerry

Re: Help with identifying my motor by serial #

Thanks Gerry

Re: Help with identifying my motor by serial #

Well, I have a need to purchase the 3 gaskets head, water & Thermostat.

Can someone recommend a good place / link to order from?

I went to a local marine shop here and they have treated me as a 'less then wanted', I don't care customer. Ordered the part, paid for the part and two weeks later nothing, no calls no answer and just don't care. I might just get a refund and look else where.

I would like a Canadian company if possible for priority post delivery...

Thanks

Re: Help with identifying my motor by serial #

Is there a liqud head gasket that will stand up?

Re: Help with identifying my motor by serial #

Mine has been on back order for weeks and no sign of it. All the local guys get on their systems and their 'contact' sites where they order say it is backlogged and all say there is no after market place to order it. So I have a great running 1988 40hp with a broken gasket that somehow cannot be replaced.

I am considering a homemade fix (of some sort) to the steel cylinder band and a good amount of liquid gasket and let it harden a few days?

Running out of options and boating / fishing season is 4 weeks old now.

If anyone has an idea that would be great.

Re: Help with identifying my motor by serial #

Barry;

You are limiting yourself if you have to have a Canadian supplier. The water cover and thermo gaskets you can make yourself and the head gasket is available on the site I gave you.

Gerry

Re: Help with identifying my motor by serial #

Gerry, Thanks again.

I placed a request on that site and am waiting a response.
I missed it the 1st time because of the site web page. Now I know where to look and hope they have it.

Re: Help with identifying my motor by serial #

Well, I placed an e-mail on 3 sites and got the same answer from each site.

Thermost gasket not avail.
Water Jacket gasket No longer available.
Head gasket available, not in hand but pay now and we will ship when we get it on back order.

So I decided that I will stay with the local shop and wait & see.

In the meantime, The two that are no longer available have arrived. The one that is available is on back order with no dates avail.

So, I took the origional head gasket which was almost totally destroyed and reconstructed the entire thing on the workbench with http://www.permatex.com/documents/tds/automotive/14600.pdfwaited the 24 hours and put it in with the usual gasket seal puddy also.

In short. 3 mile hard run and it still idles and runs like a charm.

So, I will allow the order to come in and hang it on the wall for when the fix fails.

My logic (beyond having no choice)........

My car has 8 cyl and is cooled by the closed loop rad at 195 degrees f.
My boat motor has 2 cyl and is cooled by an open and constant 70 degrees f.
The cold weld stuff will hold the broken gasket ring in place (no where to go).
Worked so far. I'm back in business.

Thanks for your time Gerry.