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My 20 hp merc 4 stroke sank. The water got up to the bottom of the carburetor. I drained the boat and there was an oil slick in the boat. The lower end of the motor had been bouncing on the sand bottom of the lake.
When I tried to start the engine with a fresh battery it would only ‘click’...
I have a 2019 merc 50 HP efi 4 stroke motor. It was running fine until yesterday when I accidentally ran the gas tank dry. I hooked up the secondary tank and everything went to hell thereafter. The motor would start then surge terribly and eventually stall. When I tried to restart I needed to...
I have just purchased this new motor (2011) and realize it is under warrany and the retailer is trying to figure out what is going wrong. At between 3,000 and 4,000 rpm the motor seems to starve for fuel. It stalls when we take it out for anything over about a 20 minute run. The fuel bulb is...
