So i have a mercruiser alpha 1 4.3. I have trouble starting the boat for the first time every time and sometimes trouble after. I have done the pumping that everyone suggests and it works sometimes. I'm newer to boating and have an issue with this am i wrong to think that if i turn the key the boat should just start, no turning over for a few minutes no throttle pumping. My engine is fuel injected not carb. so i don't understand what the pumping has to do with anything. Frankly i'm probably just being anal and don't like the noise or the feeling of o crap is it going to start this time (has never not started). Just curious i guess as stated i've never been stranded it is just annoying and again with it being fuel injected i don't understand the correlation of the pumping.
