I have a friend who had purchased a boat for 1100. The trailer and boat are in good condition, but the motor has some problems.<br /><br />The boat is around a late 70s or early 80s, same with the Mercury 115. When I first worked on it for him, it wouldn't run. Finally I was able to get it to run, then we took it to the lake, and it wasn't spitting any water. So I made him turn it off, we trolled back to the dock, not far out at all. Took it back, and I took the lower unit off. I went to pull the Impellar off and it was so full of sand, and was completely eaten off, there were no fins left on it, just the round cylinder. We got all the sand out, and put it back together with a new one.<br /><br />Fired it back up with the ears,well now it spits water out of around the Spark plugs, I have never seen anything like this before. The water also seems to come out of the pee hole. Then we did a compression test on the cylinders all cylinders are dead on about 158, except the #1 cylinder, it has 0 Pressure. It seems to have some tiny bits and pieces of metal, that ended up sticking to the bottom of that spark plug, after it was run the last time. <br /><br />Does anyone have any ideas on this, or does it seem that this engine should just be scrapped? Everything else on the engine is in perfect working order, as the guy at the shop told him.<br /><br />We have a friend who is a Car\Motorcycle Mechanic, who said he would look at tearing it apart, to see if it is worth trying to fix, or if he can, in the next week or so. <br /><br />Thanks,<br />Bryan
