I noted your comment about an Oil Pressure Alarm, to my knowledge every time I've turned the key on this I have never noticed an Alarm, so I went digging through the dash and found that there were two unplugged wires, so I plugged them in. (To my knowledge, this is infact the oem mercruiser...
Starter ended up being completely dead, I pulled it and jumped it with a known good battery I had laying around, and found out that it was just toast. I guess after the starter sat for 5ish years it didn't wanna work. I replaced it with a new starter, and noted that the new starter spun the...
I don't have any small fuel tanks, but the fuel pump is working. Unfortunately the starter that's been on there since approximately 1998 decided today that it didn't want to click anymore so I will have to wait for a new starter to come in from mercruiser before I can attempt to prime the fuel...
Refer to post below, but the two tanks it has on it are two custom fifty gallon aluminum fuel cell, it appears to be just a barbed fitting going into the tanks.
It does have a cartridge style fuel filter on it, that then goes to an electric pump, so top down order is carburetor/throttle body (I'm not sure) --> electric fuel pump --> cartridge fuel filter housing & filter --> inline fuel filter --> tank selector valve --> one of two 50 Gallon tanks. It...
I have recently acquired, a sitting, in climate controlled storage, handmade boat with a mercruiser 5.7l. My problem is that it sat for 4-5 Years. Which is fine, because the engine was pickled before it sat, but it does not build fuel pressure. it has a clear filter housing with an inline fuel...