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    combo unit witch to buy......

    I live in eastern ky, and fish in lakes that are less than a 100' and from what I can find the lakes I fish are not on the plug in cards but we do go to guntersville, Al and kerr lake in Va. a few lakes in Tn. From the plug-ins I see the lowrance has the eastern region would the lowrance...
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    1999 XR6 volt meter,tach,firing

    I got a 1999 150 XR6 that the volt meter reads above the lowest when the key is not turned on to pegged when keys is on and I check it with volt/ohms meter and with key on and engine running 14.37 volts I found it was a bad meter no problem. now the tach also reads very erratic at idle at times...
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    oil pump found problem 1999 xr6

    went out and took oil pump out and pulled fiber cyclinder off of steel spline shaft and look back inside and seen fibers pulled out shaft seen a lot of fiber pulled out fiber seen gear is it made of a type fiber is it a easy fix or a costly hard fix at dealer.... that's why the pump wasn't...
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    Oil pump sensor 1999 XR6

    Check oil pump sensor with ohm's meter at the 20k scale Blue to ground open circuit. White to ground 15.92 Blue to White open circuit I'am going to get a mercury manual as soon as I start the engine beep,beep,beep,beep,beep, NEED HELP IF POSSIBLE...
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    constant beeping 1999 XR6

    just bought boat yesterday when up lake about 2 miles and it started beeping boat has not been on lake this year finally got boat back in trolling started it up at the dock it started beeping as soon as I started it up came home and check the oil in the upper tank and it was full also took...
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    entermitting beeping 1999 xr-6

    just bought a triton tr-18 with a 1999 xr-6 150 ser OG815652 the boat has not been used very little. It has not been on the lake this year until today engine started very easy idle good went up lake slow because it had not been run this year from what the owner told me it has been on the...
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    89 XR-4 150 Blown head gasket

    Engine was over heating changed impeller and check thermostats and check poppet valve and found grass and wood fibers clean that still had no pee at idle speed check compression and on number 1 cylinder had only 50 lbs on the other cylinders had 120 to 130 lbs took head off found gasket blown...
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    89 XR4 150 poppet valve over heat

    read the different post that the poppet valve could be the problem for over heating the engine took the cover off the valve. does the valve just pull out or what. i can see behind it when i tried to pull it out and seen plenty of tree bark or what ever. or do you take the screw out of the...
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    89 150 Mercury XR4 Charging

    put water strap on engine started it, the vote meter on the boat was not working, check with volt meter on the stator and was getting the A/C voltage but none on the rectifier from the red wire to ground on D/C. here's the good part turned the engine off and started back up and the volt meter on...
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    89 mercury xr4 150 charging

    As I have read in other post I have check the stator and the rectifer and the show to be in good condition some times when I start the engine the volt meter show to be working and it may show voltage all the way out to go fishing and sometimes it may quite before I get there. sometimes I can...
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