Toddsteff
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Hello everyone,
This is my first post, I have been reading the forum for the last two years. We bought our first boat last year, 2000 Crest Sport. It has a 2001 Mercury 60 hp 2 stroke. S\N OT298429.
We have not had any problems until last weekend, Last days of vacation on Norris lake in Tn. We were heading back to the dock and motor immediately lost all power and stalled. First thing I checked was prop to make sure I didn’t get a line wrapped up? (Happened to us last year and had to replace lower seals) We were running about 4500 rpms, pumped the bulb and it seemed full. Apparently I neglected to top of oil, not sure how low it was, but I used most of a gal jug. We did not get any overheat or low oil warnings. After adding oil, we tried restarting and it fired right up. After about 1 minute at 5000 rpms it did it again. We let it sit for 5 minutes and tried again, it fired up and we made it back to dock at about 2500 rpms. Next day we decided to put it on the trailer, on my trip to the marina I ran it about 5200 rpms for the 10 minute trip. No problems.
Is there a emergency engine shutoff for low oil? I did not get any warning beeps or buzzers.
I am planning on replacing inline fuel filter, gas line and bulb and possibly rebuilding fuel pump. Mostly because of age of motor and we boat here in Tennessee until October.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Todd
This is my first post, I have been reading the forum for the last two years. We bought our first boat last year, 2000 Crest Sport. It has a 2001 Mercury 60 hp 2 stroke. S\N OT298429.
We have not had any problems until last weekend, Last days of vacation on Norris lake in Tn. We were heading back to the dock and motor immediately lost all power and stalled. First thing I checked was prop to make sure I didn’t get a line wrapped up? (Happened to us last year and had to replace lower seals) We were running about 4500 rpms, pumped the bulb and it seemed full. Apparently I neglected to top of oil, not sure how low it was, but I used most of a gal jug. We did not get any overheat or low oil warnings. After adding oil, we tried restarting and it fired right up. After about 1 minute at 5000 rpms it did it again. We let it sit for 5 minutes and tried again, it fired up and we made it back to dock at about 2500 rpms. Next day we decided to put it on the trailer, on my trip to the marina I ran it about 5200 rpms for the 10 minute trip. No problems.
Is there a emergency engine shutoff for low oil? I did not get any warning beeps or buzzers.
I am planning on replacing inline fuel filter, gas line and bulb and possibly rebuilding fuel pump. Mostly because of age of motor and we boat here in Tennessee until October.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Todd