Solomon Shaffer
Seaman
- Joined
- Sep 4, 2009
- Messages
- 60
Hi!
I purchased a '67 Renken boat and it came with a 1981 Mercury 50hp, 4cyl, manual start. It did not run, and the previous owner told me that it needed a high-speed stator. (The marina verified this.)
I ordered the stator and when it arrive it looked very different from the one that was under the flywheel. The old stator was a little metal ring with two coils on it and four wires going to the switchbox.
The new stator was much thicker, no coils were exposed, and it had about 10 magnets around it. I called the store and we double-checked part/serial numbers and the numbers matched.
The place where I bought the stator said that Mercury had put the wrong part in the right box. So I've been sitting for over 1 month waiting for Mercury to ship me my little metal ring with the two coils.
Finally, I did some checking online, and by entering the part number I needed, I found several places selling the stator I had received. So....I thought, "this HAS to be the right one." The pictures and numbers matched the one I had received, and they said that it was for my motor with a manual start. (I'm desperate and Mercury isn't exactly on the ball!)
I put it in to see if it would fit, reassembled the motor, and walla, it ran.
Took it to the lake tonight and it wants to die as soon as I put it under a load. If I CAN keep it running it will only run at very low RPMS (my boat plowed the water - that's all the faster it would go.)
The carbs were rebuilt last fall, and all the fuel lines look fine. Maybe it was the wrong stator after all? Maybe it's something else? The trigger? Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated.
I purchased a '67 Renken boat and it came with a 1981 Mercury 50hp, 4cyl, manual start. It did not run, and the previous owner told me that it needed a high-speed stator. (The marina verified this.)
I ordered the stator and when it arrive it looked very different from the one that was under the flywheel. The old stator was a little metal ring with two coils on it and four wires going to the switchbox.
The new stator was much thicker, no coils were exposed, and it had about 10 magnets around it. I called the store and we double-checked part/serial numbers and the numbers matched.
The place where I bought the stator said that Mercury had put the wrong part in the right box. So I've been sitting for over 1 month waiting for Mercury to ship me my little metal ring with the two coils.
Finally, I did some checking online, and by entering the part number I needed, I found several places selling the stator I had received. So....I thought, "this HAS to be the right one." The pictures and numbers matched the one I had received, and they said that it was for my motor with a manual start. (I'm desperate and Mercury isn't exactly on the ball!)
I put it in to see if it would fit, reassembled the motor, and walla, it ran.
Took it to the lake tonight and it wants to die as soon as I put it under a load. If I CAN keep it running it will only run at very low RPMS (my boat plowed the water - that's all the faster it would go.)
The carbs were rebuilt last fall, and all the fuel lines look fine. Maybe it was the wrong stator after all? Maybe it's something else? The trigger? Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated.