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    1996 mercury 25 hp wiring harness question

    I recently purchased a Jon boat with a 96 mercury tracker 25 hp. The boat has an older quicksilver remote. I don't know what the harness is for but it won't fit the mercury. I have been using the pull start but would love to get the electric start working. The motor has a 6 pin female harness...
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    2000 Johnson 225 HO problem shifting to neutral

    I recently purchased an older Lake and Bay with a 2000 Johnson 225 HO. The motor looks brand new, it was installed on the boat 2 years ago and was stored in a crate since new in 2000. The first time I took the boat out I immediately noticed it horribly lacks power and after removing cowling i...
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    Problems with 86 Evinrude 70hp

    This is my second season owning my boat, last season it had some issues, but i just dealt with them, now I just want to get it running smoothly. Some details, the motor is still running the VRO pump, I have only had the boat 2 years and the previous owner did not keep very good records, but the...
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    Anyone familiar with VRO swap to premix

    My boat spent the last two months at a large marina with what began as a simple carb rebuild/retune. Well I fianally got fed up with their mess when they told me yesterday that they had just realized that my VRO pump was the problem all along. So I went and picked it up before they could rob...
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    1987 Evinrude Runs great on muffs, wont start in water EDIT

    I have a 1987 Evinrude 70hp, ran great 2 weeks ago, put the water to it yesterday to get it ready for a fishing trip today and it fired right up and ran and idled great for the 5 or so minutes I had it running in the driveway. Then when i got it in the water at the landing it would barely start...
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