If the magnets are off of the inside of the flywheel what would this cause? I pulled my flywheel off of the motor I just picked up and the magnets fell out of it. It was running when I first seen the motor. Sorry I am not familiar with boat motors. Thanks in advance Jayme
I am going to take my motor off ( Mercury 1989 90Elpto) What is the best way to lift it off the boat. I have a Motor hoist but I dont have a clue to where to strap it or what. Please help. Thank You.....
I was wondering if I could get away with running my motor a couple more times before I change the upper and lower mounts. My motor does have an inch of play. Will it hurt it anymore to run it. It is on a 16 ft starcraft fishing boat and I dont cruise around I usually run a couple of miles to my...
I have a 89 Mercury 90 Elpto and I am putting it on my boat but there are two wires coming out of the bottom of the oil tank and I have no idea were they go. Can anyone tell me how to hook this up. Thanks :confused:
I have a 87 mercury 50hp with a 12 pitch prop on a 1987 Starcraft sfm160 aluminum fishing boat. The motor is set on the boat about 1/2inch above the bottom of the boat, looks to be in the right spot. I noticed yesterday that I dont have a straight roostertail it goes way to the right. Can anyone...
I was running it yesterday and it ran fine and I got it home and the overheat buzzer went off while I was flushing the motor. Now it wont start. Can anyone tell me how and where to start. Could a fuse be blown. This motor ran to good for it to be something major, hopefully. Thanks Jayme:confused:
I have a 1987 Mercury 50hp 2stroke on a 16ft Starcraft with quicksilver throttle. I am getting ready to install a tach and I need to know how to wire it up. I do have a extra cable coming out of the throttle control. By looking at my manual it says it is the tach wires but where would I get the...
:confused:I have a 87 merucury 50hp 2 stroke on a 16ft starcraft sfm160 v-hull. It comes out of the hole great and planes out good. It currnetly has I think a 12 pitch prop. What I was wanting to know is should I change the prop or add a jack plate to the boat. Right now it goes 31 on gps for my...
I have never had my boat not start and I had it started about 3 days ago to check out all my equipment and I accidently left the key on for 3 days. I went out to fish today and now I have no spark. What could this be?? Any help will be appreciated..
I have notice that I am leaking oil out of what looks like a vent hole in my lower unit. The hole is located near the top part of the lower unit. What is causing this?? Does it need to be rebuilt?? I am new to this but I am very mechanically inclined.. PLEASE HELP...
I just bought this boat from a friend and when he parked it in 03 it ran great. I cleaned the carbs and put everything back together. When I took it out it idles great, starts on 1st crank, but when you hit half throttle it dies. I got it running and left the choke on and it runs out. What have...
