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I have a 1999 mercury 225 DFI v6 3.0. The other day I put the boat in gear and was at about 2000 rpm when the motor made acrazy noise and all of a sudden lost all power. The engine will run fine and rev up but the prop will not spin. I removed the lower unit and the main shaft and prop shaft...
Yesterday i was cruising around looking for obia when all off a sudden my motor mad a crazy sound and the boat jerked. It almost felt like i had hit something but im 90% sure i didnt unless it was a turtle or something. When i put the boat in gear i get no rotation on my prop. I put the boat in...
Last trip out on the boat i noticed water in my fuel due to a bad anti siphon valve. So i had my fuel tank cleaned out and polished along with filling the tank completely up. So yesterday i took the boat to the ramp and tried powering up. Whats happening is the motor cranks but will not fire. So...
Bought my first boat last week and it has had a continuous problem with the fuel system. Took the boat out twice and it ran great. The third time and everytime since has been a problem. I was cruising along at 4500 rpms when the engine started cutting down all the way to 2000 rpm at wot. I...
I recently bought a boat with a 99 mercury 224 with 350 hrs on it. Took it on a sea trial before i bought it and it ran great. second time i took the boat out after running it all day on the ride home it started acting like it was low on fuel. I though i had run out of gas like some kind of...
