I have a Mercury 2 stroke 8 hp motor and I'm having a problem with the throttle control. Last year a small plastic rod ball cap kept slipping off the rod and I had to manually take the cover off and pusk the linkage back to get the throttle to go into gear. The shifting was real tight, not...
I have an 8 hp Mercury motor vintage about 1982 that was always a fast start and never gave me any problems until last week. I was running the motor on a fishing boat in the river and did'nt feel like the motor was doing full speed at wot in forward. I pushed the control grip handle under...
We recently bought a 24 foot pontoon and had it converted to a tritoon for use at our lazy river house on the St Lawrence River which was also a recent purchase.. We are in a bay where the water depth at best at the dock during high water is about 24 " deep. The tritoon i'm told which has a 50...
I bought a 1982 Skeeter fiberglass bass boat at the end of last season that I never tested in the water but put into storage to use sometime this year on some small lakes. It has a 33 Johnson electric start on it. When I finally got it into the water towards the end of the season this year at...
I'm new to the world of out board motors and just bought a 77 Monark bass boat with a 85 hp Evinrude motor. Previous owner said the motor is hard starting , that it had to be choked good but once started it usually runs fine and restarts ok. Any known issues for this boat or motor, or reasons...
