Hi Everyone,
Back around the end of June, I had a post talking about an overheat event I had and I got some advice from Texasmark and Silvertip about re-piping the telltale source from the thermostat discharge over to the hose coming off of the exhaust manifold. I got all of my other issues...
Re: V6 200 EFI - Don't trust the telltale!!
I would like to thank all those in this forum that have provided me with advice and their experiences. My parts for the water pump came in Friday and I started changing it out this morning.
Dropped the lower unit without a lot of trouble, set it up...
Fairly new to this forum, but have gotten some great advice and learned a lot from reading the posts. I really appreciate all of the assistance and have benefitted greatly from everyone's experience here.
I just finished a 4 week long saga resolving troubles from sour fuel in my boat...
I asked this in a different forum, but maybe it wasn't the right one.
I have a '00 Merc 200 EFI which has a screw in type hose connection for flushing the engine. My question is this... When running the engine at home in the driveway, is it preferred to use the hose connection built into the...
Does anyone know about whether there is benefit of using the hose connection near the cowling or using typical muffs at lower pickup for running while at home in driveway? Will both work the same if you're planning on running engine as opposed to simply flushing with engine off?
Thanks.
Jim C
OK. Brief history. Had fuel deliver issues because of boat setting up for over a year. Pumped out 25-30 gal. of old gas, installed remote fuel/water separator, replaced high pressure fuel pump and strainer(old one siezed up), cleaned everything out while I had the VST broken open (including...
I think that I posted this under the wrong topic originally, trying again.
Hey everyone, I'm new to this forum. Found iBoats while doing some troubleshooting on my merc outboard and it seems that there's quite a bit of knowledge and experience here.
I've been contemplating changing the...
Hey everyone, I'm new to this forum. Found iBoats while doing some troubleshooting on my merc outboard and it seems that there's quite a bit of knowledge and experience here.
I've been contemplating changing the steering type on by 21' bay boat from manual anti-feedback type to hydraulic. It...
Is there a check valve from the top of the Vapor Separator tank that might be stuck? When I pump the bulb, just as it's getting hard, fuel streams out of a small hole in the side of a brass elbow fitting connected to the fuel rail.
It seems like there shoudl maybe be a check valve to prevent...
