My Dad purchased a boat in 2016 from a marina we have used and trusted for over 20 years. But this last experience has been nothing but problems.
The boat is a 1988 Searay Sundancer 268 and has twin Mercruiser 3.0 motors. We have only ever had issues with the port side motor, the motor from day...
I'll try and keep this post short but we just blew a head gasket on the boats fourth #1 engine.
The boat is a 26' Searay Sundancer that was repo'd and had dual 4cyl mercruiser i/o in it. Newly rebuilt engines, all new outdrives and gimbal housing/bearings.
We have had zero problems with engine...
i noticed after replacing my bottom end seals and water pump that I had a water droplet on my #2 spark plug. Motor is a 1987 25hp Mercury.
This seems to be a pretty common problem which is a leaking gasket in the exhaust manifold. I've ordered both and plan on changing these out on my next day...
i picked up a 1987 25hp 2 stroke Merc and it currently has Champion QL77JC4 plugs in it, online parts manuals list the Mercury part number 14103570 which through google searching brings up the NGK 2173 BUZHW-2 surface gap plug. The NGK website lists the BPZ8H-N-10 as the recommended plug, this...
Been toying with this motor and I cannot figure out why I have to use the choke at WOT, motor starts up fine and idles all day.
I've done quite a bit of work to it and can't figure this problem out. So far I've cleaned the carb twice, first time I didn't remove the lead plugs, second time I...
first off, I want to say this forum is awesome. I've been tinkering with 1960-1970 era evinrudes/Johnson motors for a few years when I had 2 9.5 sportwins given to me and they run awesome now. Everything k needed was on this forum.
So now to the problem im having. I picked up a 1969 evinrude...
