got my motor running and trailer back together and tested it out.
it cranks up and runs with choke on (choke closed). turn the choke off (open choke) and it shuts off. so i went back to the motor and used the manual choke and opened it just a little bit and it ran ok but had very weak power...
i got my mercury 200 20hp running, (thanks for the help with the electrical stuff. it was a short in the orange wire to ground for the ignition switch up front of the boat)
now my impaler isnt even trickling water. so i took the nut on the front of the lower unit loose and the nut above the...
i bought this 75' model mercury 200 with front of boat controls a year ago this month.
serial # 4148481
when i bought it it had a bad coil for the lower cylinder. it also had a fairly new switchbox on it.( november of 2004 punched out on the mfg date) i put a new coil on it and it ran like...
