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I have a 1996 40 HP mercury on a bass tracker. Tilt and trim have never worked quite right since I purchased the boat 2 years ago. The hydraulics never could keep the engine up, it always slowly sank (about 2-5 min). The first cold trip this winter, it got much worse and began to leak from the...
Just bought my first boat. Its a tracker TX 17 with a 40 HP 94 Mercury 4 cylinder, 2 stroke. I noticed a little oil coming out of the small ports just below the junction of the lower unit and main body of the engine (I think they are the pee-holes). It begain to leak when I trimmed the motor...