Hey all,
I have a 1994 Mercury 200xri on my Nitro bass boat. Last weekend during a tournament began to run outta gas while heading to weigh in. Boat would die I would start ot back up, floor it and get onto plane for 15-30 seconds then the speed would gradually vome down and not move. So long story short I had to do that like 8 times to get back with 2 minutes to spare
Got it on the trailer just fine then went straight to the gas station and put 4.5 gallons. Took it out yesterday and it started just fine, idles just fine, gets into gear just fine at a low no wake speed then when you give it gas to get going the engine just bogs down and sounds like crap not moving us anywhere.
Stopped by a local Merc mechanic and he told me sounded like a fuel issue and to replace the fuel line with the pump ball and the fuel/water seperator. So today I did and just pumped up the ball until it was hard, cranked it over just see it would start before driving to the lake.
After launching it, the engine started just fine, idled just fine. Died once at idle speed but started right back up. Continued to the end no wake and had the same exact thinh happened! Only had it running for 10 minutes. So briught it back home hooked up the muffs and ran it for 25 minutes at idle just fine.
Ideas?
I have a 1994 Mercury 200xri on my Nitro bass boat. Last weekend during a tournament began to run outta gas while heading to weigh in. Boat would die I would start ot back up, floor it and get onto plane for 15-30 seconds then the speed would gradually vome down and not move. So long story short I had to do that like 8 times to get back with 2 minutes to spare
Got it on the trailer just fine then went straight to the gas station and put 4.5 gallons. Took it out yesterday and it started just fine, idles just fine, gets into gear just fine at a low no wake speed then when you give it gas to get going the engine just bogs down and sounds like crap not moving us anywhere. Stopped by a local Merc mechanic and he told me sounded like a fuel issue and to replace the fuel line with the pump ball and the fuel/water seperator. So today I did and just pumped up the ball until it was hard, cranked it over just see it would start before driving to the lake.
After launching it, the engine started just fine, idled just fine. Died once at idle speed but started right back up. Continued to the end no wake and had the same exact thinh happened! Only had it running for 10 minutes. So briught it back home hooked up the muffs and ran it for 25 minutes at idle just fine.
Ideas?
