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Hi All!
I have a Mercury 85 HP Thunderbolt 1977(I think)serial 7101664
It runs fine on muffs connected to a hose but when I took her out in the sea it starts well but runs rough and will go into gear and can increase speed slightly but once I open her up abit more she bogs down and will stop if...
Hi Everyone,
I have a 1977 Mercury 850 Outboard that was running fine last year and ran fine once this year but the next time I started it, it started with a super high idle.
Now it wont start unless I block one of the air intakes and then it will be super high idle again.
Any ideas would be...
