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    What would you do?

    We recently purchased a 1971 Seaswirl with a Mercury 850 Outboard. The motor started when we were purchasing the boat. Then, when we took it out on the lake a few days later the motor wouldn't start. We took it in to our local marine shop and the mechanic got the boat started but said that we...
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    1973 Mercury 850 stalling

    We recently purchased a boat with a 1973 85hp Mercury outboard. We took it out for the first time a few days ago and had a problem with the motor stalling. It ran well for awhile and then started stalling when putting it into gear. It would also stall when slowing the boat down to an idle...
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    Mercury 850 Outboard not starting

    We just purchased a 71 Seaswirl with a Mercury 85hp outboard. Two days ago when we purchased the boat it started and ran just fine. We launched it yesterday at the lake and it wouldn't start. We thought we had flooded the engine and the battery eventually wore out. The plugs are fine and it has...
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