I have had my '71 merc 650 4 cylinder (ser:3155373) for over 10 years. I have taken good care of it and it has performed well. A few years ago I made the mistake of disconnecting the battery while running. This damaged the trigger unit. Recently I replaced the entire ignition system with new old...
I was interested in finding in a list of factory service manuals published by Mercury.
Repair manuals come in two flavors:
Commercial Publications:
Produced by publishing houses and sold in bookstores- like SELOC or Haynes.
These have a Library of Congress reference contained in a verso...
I did a bad thing.
I started my outboard with one battery and tried swapping the leads to another while still running. Actually, the motor continued to run for a few seconds but stalled before I could get the leads connected to the other battery.
I reconnected the leads to the start battery...
