Re: 1999 4stroke 50hp Impeller Change
That's tough luck again! But hey, someone needs to lead the way to teach us how to resolve this type of issue.
My concern is where you said you just bought it. You don't know the history of how it was treated over the past 10 years.
You say you changed the impeller twice now. Did you rebuild the waterpump at the same time. The whole kit that I bought on iboats was under $50 including the impeller. Your Seloc manual shows how to change the thermostats too. Mine came yesterday and I was reading how to do that last night.
Like I said, I would ask your questions on another boating sight as there is very little response here. These are simple issues and it's sad not for you to get any responses here to resolve your issue. If I knew how the members thumb their noses at Merc's I would not have given my last 3 orders to iBoats.
Ask a Nissan or Tohatsu repair question and the regulars are all over it even though they don't own one! Go figure. They seem to lean towards talking up old Johnsons and Evinrudes on this site even though Merc is the most widely owned O/B.
I'd call a dealer and tell him you will buy the parts from him but you like his opinion on what part to replace next. They are leery about helping you if they give you the answers and then you screw them out of a sale by buying on the net.
When my two rebuild kits come from iBoats I'm sending them back and getting OEM ones. I thought the pee stream on her 99 was weak on the muffs but it was fine on our initial test run last night on the river. So I'm in no rush now and will wait till I receive the OEM kits for the maintenance.
The dealer is going to do trial anyway. They start with the obvious, and when that doesn't solve it they go to the next part. The impeller was a wear item anyway, so is the fuel pump rebuild. I would imaging thermostats are pretty cheap.
You don't know if the warning over heat buzzer also came on with the previous owner and they drove it anyway. Some O/B auto shut down to a slower speed but you or them could have cooked the thermostats.
Check with a dealer but don't ask them step by step on how to change the parts and then not let them do it. Use your manual for that.
I'm sending back to iBoats the big wheel third wheel that came yesterday. I thought it was the 4 inch wide wheel in the picture but it's only the 2 inch wheel. The 4 inch is called the mighty wheel. iBoats wants $92 plus shipping on a 20lb plus. I just ordered the mighty wheel from Walmart online for $70 and free shipping to the store for the exact same item. I'm not going to go through the hassle of the price matching thing. They should be reasonable in the first place in my opinion.
You would think iBoats would have some marketing smarts and drop their prices a little in order to pick up the Boaters World customers that are up for grabs.
Walmart gets it, Iboats doesn't. Because of the Circuit City closings, Walmart is opening up big electronics depts. to pick up the CC customers before Best Buy grabs them.
Seems to me Walmart has increased their marine item line online too!
My bottom line and consumer dollars says if you can't get simple questions answered here whats the point? I just send stuff back to iBoats. I would have thought that was the point of this iboats and their forums relationship. It was working for me for awhile and I was happy to pay a little extra to give the biz to Iboats but now I'm back to Google and I go for the biggest discount with decent shipping I can find or use Mercury
Parts Express.
I keep track of my accessories and since 2007 I've spent over $7000 on accessories. Now I've just started outfitting my Daughter's boat
