Tarinazo
Seaman
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- Feb 18, 2019
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I have a few threads here with a few issues I've come around while restoring my 1981 Bass Tracker III, lately my main focus has been on getting the 1981 Mercury 40hp (2 cyl) OB started... well today it did, barely.
With both sparks out, I can turn the flywheel with some resistance, putting my thumb over the spark hole produces a fair amount of compression, although I haven't done a proper compression test.
With both spark plugs on I can barely turn the flywhheel over using a rope and knot. Today, I tried to start the engine using jumper cables... the flywheel barely turns also, and because of this, the jumper cables started to smoke. So I tried to start the engine wrapping a rope around the flywheel... no luck.
I took the spark plugs out again and jump-started the flywheel again, it would spin freely, put the plugs back again and it's a no go.
Is this normal? is my wiring wrong? (still haven't found the correct wiring diagram, as stated in my other post), I have a big blue spark on both plugs.
Later today I got fed up and used a bit of starter fluid on the top cylinder, although I struggled again to turn the flywheel, the engine finally started up quite nice, it revved well, good stream of water out of the pee hole, it stayed on and warmed up good.
Once the engine ran for a while, I tried to turn it off but couldn't, as of now I have the BLK/YELL wire not connected anywhere, I touched it to the blue wire on the powerpack, nada, touched it to the wire from the tilt switch... nada, tuurned the key off at the remote, zero, puuled the lanyard and the engine kept running... I had to lower the carb setting to starve it.
Once it died, I thought maybe the engine loosened up a bit, it being still warm, so I tried to jump start it again only to come out with the same result: flywheel barely turning and the cable smoking after 3 seconds.
With both sparks out, I can turn the flywheel with some resistance, putting my thumb over the spark hole produces a fair amount of compression, although I haven't done a proper compression test.
With both spark plugs on I can barely turn the flywhheel over using a rope and knot. Today, I tried to start the engine using jumper cables... the flywheel barely turns also, and because of this, the jumper cables started to smoke. So I tried to start the engine wrapping a rope around the flywheel... no luck.
I took the spark plugs out again and jump-started the flywheel again, it would spin freely, put the plugs back again and it's a no go.
Is this normal? is my wiring wrong? (still haven't found the correct wiring diagram, as stated in my other post), I have a big blue spark on both plugs.
Later today I got fed up and used a bit of starter fluid on the top cylinder, although I struggled again to turn the flywheel, the engine finally started up quite nice, it revved well, good stream of water out of the pee hole, it stayed on and warmed up good.
Once the engine ran for a while, I tried to turn it off but couldn't, as of now I have the BLK/YELL wire not connected anywhere, I touched it to the blue wire on the powerpack, nada, touched it to the wire from the tilt switch... nada, tuurned the key off at the remote, zero, puuled the lanyard and the engine kept running... I had to lower the carb setting to starve it.
Once it died, I thought maybe the engine loosened up a bit, it being still warm, so I tried to jump start it again only to come out with the same result: flywheel barely turning and the cable smoking after 3 seconds.
