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I have a 2002 6hp 4 stroke that is getting to be a problem child.
Complaint " hard to start" or "will not start" I go to the dock and it starts for me on the first pull.
Took it to the shop they could not duplicate the problem, it started first pull every time.
Yesteday it started acting up...
I bought a 5hp long shaft for our sailing club, So far they have put 80 hours on it.
A couple of small niggling problems the factory fixed , the Kill switch died, Lehr supplied a new one.
The defective switch had never been tightened properly and had fallen apart ( Qa Problem?) the new one now...
I have a 2003 Mercury 4 hp 4 stroke that got very hard to turn over and finally got to the point where it refused to start.
I took it to my local dealer who removed the lower unit, in doing this, the drive shaft stuck up in the power head, destroying the pump housing as he pulled the unit off...
