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    Mercury 9.8 No spark after being in storage for the winter

    Hi guys! I sold a Mercury 9.8 outboard about a week ago, took it out of storage and the buyer who lives just a couple of streets away came and picked it up. This weekend he came back with the outboard saying it wouldn't start. It ran perfectly fine last year, started right away and never hade...
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    mercury 50 (500) grey goo, runs bad and snapped bolts.

    Hi guys! I'm back again having issues again with my 1970 Mercury 500 thunderbolt It only runs on the top two cylinders and the lower cylinder doesn't fire. When started cold it starts really easy and idles well but as the pressure in the coolingsystem increase the lower two cylinder stops...
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    Mercury 50 (500) helt wire up retrofitted electric starter

    Hi guys! My last outboard was beyond salvation so I bought a new project to invest all my hard earned money into. It's an 1970 Mercury Thunderbolt 500 in pretty good condition apart from the issue with stalling when shift into gear. Hopefully this has been sorted out as I cleaned out the...
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    Chrysler 55hp 1973 compression issue

    Hi guys! I'm having some problems with a Chrysler outboard that I got with a boat a couple of weeks ago. The previous owner said that after his kids was out playing and pulling water-skis with the boat and the line got tangled in the propeller the engine started to running poorly. He described...
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    Mercury 4.5 2-stroke -85 no cooling, impeller changed (pics and video)

    Hi! I've bought a Mercury 4.5 this weekend and after getting it up and running I noticed that there isn't any water coming out of the peehole. The first thing I did was to change the water pump and as expected it wasn't pretty... some pieces of the water pump came out when I removed the lower...
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    Yamaha 60 hp -87, change to newer powerhead?

    I bought a boat a couple of weeks ago and along with it came a Yamaha 60 hp 2-stroke -87, the engine ran great but I noticed there were a bit of white smoke when I had driven for a while. I suspected that there was a problem with the thermostat as there was some corrosion on the thermostat...
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    Evinrude 4 hp 2 stroke problem. Updated with pics!

    Hello everyone! I have an Evinrude 4 hp 2-strokes that doesn't work as it should, it is from the mid 80's I believe. The problem is that when the engine is cold, it works pretty good, it accellerate quite ok and it is very easy to start. However, when it starts to get warm, I have to push...
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