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    Fuel supply problems

    Had the boat on the water Wednesday and it lost power and died about 2-3 minutes into wot. The primer bulb collapsed and stayed that way until after I loaded the boat on the trailer by hand. Yes! I loosened the gas cap when it first happened. I just went out and pulled the- nearly new- Mercury...
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    Replaced stater and rectifier, still no spark in one cyl

    Might have to run a better ground to the coils for those cylinders. That was what I had to do to get spark on two out of four on mine.
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    Power pack or switchbox?

    I started the motor at the boat launch and it idled and ran great. so I launched the boat. I picked the wife up at the dock and we cruised out on the lake for about ten minutes and then I felt it lose power. I went back and squeezed the fuel bulb and it ran at reduced speed for another couple...
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    Power pack or switchbox?

    So now that it has spark all around and the carbs have been rebuilt I ran it on muffs. It idled too fast so I adjusted the idle speed screw on the linkage. I didn't idle it down as far as I want to be at on the muffs in case it runs differently when I get it in the water. I will button up the...
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    Power pack or switchbox?

    I should tell everybody that it was the brown wire because that is what everybody says when they have this problem but it wasn't it was a bad ground on #1 and #2. I jumped a ground wire between where the bottom two were grounded and where the top two were grounded and got spark all the way...
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    Power pack or switchbox?

    When I stuck the old switchbox back on I only got spark on #3 so I am pretty sure that old switchbox is bad. Other components keep testing good individually so I am thinking about sticking the new switchbox on again and running a new ground to #1 and #2. They have a common ground on the same bolt.
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    Power pack or switchbox?

    I have changed and tested nearly everything I can think of on my 85 Mercury 50 HP 4 cylinder motor but I still can't get spark on the top two cylinders. When they talk about the power pack is that the same as the switchbox on this motor? Any way to find out if the switchbox is bad? I replaced...
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    How to remove the front cowl bracket on a 1985 Mercury classic 50

    I will probably go with spring clamps on the small fuel lines.
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    How to remove the front cowl bracket on a 1985 Mercury classic 50

    The main problem with fuel was a lot of junk from the old EPA fuel line breaking down. Where can I get zip ties that are strong enough to tighten them around the fuel lines going to the carbs? Do zip ties pull tight enough with needle nose pliers? Going to do the spark test again after I...
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    How to remove the front cowl bracket on a 1985 Mercury classic 50

    I had a time taking that one 7/16" nut off the corners had already been rounded and then it hit me like a diamond bullet right between the eyes-vice grips- the vice grips were enough to break it loose. Now I need to get the carbs cleaned and a couple of new nuts and gaskets. I have to drive 40...
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    How to remove the front cowl bracket on a 1985 Mercury classic 50

    Thanks I will disconnect the battery cables. I got the cowl bracket off and am trying to loosen the carb mounting nuts they are extremely tight and I might have to remove the starter to get at the ones on other side. I think that I was spreading the open end wrench. I have a manual choke and...
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    How to remove the front cowl bracket on a 1985 Mercury classic 50

    I need to remove the front cowl bracket to get at the carbs. The choke assembly is attached to the cowl bracket. Where is the best place to detach the choke assembly to remove the cowl bracket? Fuel line disintegrated so I really need to get at the carbs. to see if I can clean out the float bowls.
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    Fluorocarbon line is less pliable than other lines.

    I spooled the new 17 pound line on my open face just like they show on youtube. Counter clockwise off the spool of line. Then when I opened the bail the line sprung off of the reel and twisted around the rod tip. So I drug a sinker up the alley with it attached to a swivel tied to the end of the...
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    Brakes went out!

    When I see a picture of a vehicle under water at the bottom of a boat ramp I always wonder if something happened to their brakes and maybe they weren't as lucky as we were.
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    Chart Plotter Transducer Mount

    Mine had a place for mounting the transducer bracket itself but I needed to fasten the cable going up the back of the tube. I tried taping the cable in place against the tube and then using ribbon epoxy but the ribbon epoxy wasn't sticky enough to stick to aluminum. I got some J.B. Water Weld...
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    Advice on cleats

    I see old holes where cleats were mounted on top of the rails so I will do the same thing.
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    Dry Gear!

    I was going to ask what you use to keep your gear dry on the boat but after googling it I have a lot of answers. I see where you can use zip lock bags that go from sandwich size or ones that can hold gallons of stuff. One thing I just found was that people use 5 gallon buckets and I think that...
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    Brakes went out!

    It was the end of a busy weekend on the lake and trailers were being backed in 5 wide on the ramp. The law had some drunks at the dock and that made things a little more tense. Anyway the wife managed to back the pontoon boat trailer down after a few tries and I had just made a big run at the...
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    Chinese navigation lights- don't go by the pictures.

    They instruct you that the red light goes to port and the green to starboard but then they have an illustration and the lights are on the wrong side. I know that the red goes to port. But those illustrations could confuse somebody who doesn't know the difference.
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    Advice on cleats

    Any advice on the best way to install docking cleats to the corners of the old Bass Buggy? There is no deck outside the fence so I am thinking about passing the lines over the rails and tying the lines to cleats mounted about six inches down the inside of the fence. Does that sound about...
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