bluebear57
Petty Officer 3rd Class
- Joined
- Mar 12, 2011
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- 76
I have been chasing an issue with my 89 Mercury mariner 150 for 2 years . It starts up and idles perfectly but when you give it throttle it stalls like it’s out of gas.it has been completely rebuilt including pistons and rings.I have taken it to small shops around here paid money nobody could figure it out. I replaced the fuel pump,regulator stator,trigger,power packs and rebuilt carburetors etc all things on this motor ,thinking it might be electrical,and it still does it ,in the middle of the lake last week I was on my back in the middle of the lake working on it ,in neutral, I just happen to reach up and grab the linkage for the carburetors and tried to rev it up real fast and black smoke blew out and it started running perfectly. It ran all day off and on no issues, after sits all night it does it again .I manually throttle linkage and keep it in neutral and it’ll blow out a big bunch of black smoke and it starts running perfect again , no stall but you can’t rev it up with control arm untill it clears out, then it works fine have no idea what causes that , if any of you do I greatly appreciate it