fishinwrench

Good job ! Get her shimmed right and go test run it again.

80.00 dime sized O-rings are definitely taking it to a new level. That groove on those Mercury injectors could have been designed to accept ANY SIZE of O-ring......but Noooo, Merc designs them to only accept the one size of O-ring that is as rare as a maroon and chartruese spotted cockatoo. Same for the seal on a EFI vapor separator. Nothing but an odd shaped O-ring, but that sumbitch is $87.89 and cannot be reused because it shrinks when the cap is removed and the seal starts to dry off. Attempts to stretch it and make it fit the groove again are fruitless. No reason in the world that a carbon gasket couldn't have been used.

My wife claims that if I have my best friends nuts cut off that he won't leave the yard and get into trouble anymore. I refuse to allow it because I'm his best friend too. She just wants him to quit humping his blanket. I wanna know which part of her needs cut off so she'll quit spending all our money.

Oh hell yeah. Definitely Mr. Impeller needs to be introduced to Mr. Angle grinder. When reinstalling just relocate shims like Griz says until the impeller starts scraping the cup, then back off one shim. At the hub of the impeller you can see how much material is missing from the leading edge. When it gets much over 1/4" (let's say 3/8") then it's time to think about ordering a new impeller. The trigger coil is what rotates under the flywheel when the throttle is moved, it advances your ignition timing. Be sure that at full throttle the trigger rotates fully against its stop. See, that "rebuild" wasn't a rebuild, was it? 😀

Yeah, Johnny could fix that if he wanted to. It would even be a huge deal for his customers since new Evinrude outboards come with a 10 year warranty. Regardless of how awesome they are the profit numbers will always favor the dark side, so there ya have it. I guess I'm a bit envious. If I could operate in a fashion that always favored my bank account the most, and still sleep at night, I could be preparing to retire really soon.

But wherever you go instead...the "stuff" follows. You can't avoid the smell of it.

I don't think it would be any different than a cloud passing over since the actual angle of the sun stays the same. I have to work today also but I might get out this evening. The last 2 times I have been out I didn't do very good, so I am due for some action eclipse or not.

My wife loved all but the Peter Pan one. For some reason that one pissed her off, and I ain't asking why. Probably a Tinker Bell thing as her and my youngest are huge Tinker Bell fanatics.

I've heard that if you remove a trout or catfish's adipose fin then the fish looses it's homing capability (can't find it's way around anymore). Any truth to that?

Hell there was 3 eclipses TODAY. Clouds moved in about 8:30 then cleared out about 10:00 Then again just after lunch. And one more time about 4:pm. I'm all eclipsed out. It's all old hat to me now.

It mounts into the exhaust plate (back cover where your regulators are bolted on to) and cools via fins that exhaust water passes through. You can't convert yours to it without changing the stator, exhaust cover, terminal board, and ignition coil mounts. Sadly that would cost more than the motor is worth. And I'm sure the coil mounts and terminal board are NLA.

Not to squish your project but have you checked the impeller leading edge and shimming, and made sure that your throttle plates and trigger coils are moving fully into the WOT position? I know of several 25 jets on 16' Jon's that get up and scoot just fine. You may just not be getting all out of your little 25 that you are supposed to be getting. Just a thought. A buddy recently had a 30 jet that had lost its balls, but a little impeller tuning woke it right up.

They don't. But they should. Well wait......Once upon a time they did. But oddly enough those were on the motors that now have NLA throttle position sensors. Go figure, right?

I guess I'd be more excited about it if everyone else wasn't so OVERLY excited about it. I'm funny that way. I mean yeah it's pretty cool....but let's not loose our heads here.

I hope it rains all day, that's how cynical I am. A nation full of media sheep gathering (in some cases driving hundreds of miles) to stand there and stare at the sun with goggles on, is just weird to me. It makes me question whether I am the lost one who is incapable of thinking for himself, or if indeed they are.

Oh I'm full of them, don't get me started. 😀

If the part# isn't 8MOO84173 then you got old superceded stock. And that's likely to change next year unless the latest ones manage to seldom fail under warranty. Why not just scrap that dual regulator rediculousness and develop a single water cooled regulator with a overload protection circuit like everyone else has done? That way if a guy is idling along with a low battery (hey it happens) and decides to hit his trim button the charging system won't go up in flames and start frying expensive ignition components. Do they really not intend for their motors to last any longer than a battery ? I guess that's one way to make sure all Mercurys that get seen are nice and shiney.

If there has been it didn't change anything. Merc will just make them NLA if there was ever any litigation, they don't have a problem doing that after a motor hits 7 years old. They'll just quit supplying parts for them altogether. Once all the old parts inventory is gone then your just screwed....unless an aftermarket company from overseas decides to start making some. Try getting a throttle position sensor for a 99 Merc 200 EFI. If that little POS shoots craps your motor can't be fixed and just has to be scrapped out. It's nothing more than a rheostat (volume knob) but the last few remaining ones sold for almost 900.00 a couple years ago. I have 2 good ones but I'm not turning loose of them because I might take one of those motors in on trade someday and I don't wanna get stuck with it.

When you deal with a dealership that has "a huge inventory of parts" what you are most likely to get as a replacement regulator is one of the earlier versions that failed too many times before the warranty expired...just FYI, because they were able to buy up a case of them on the cheap. But you'll pay the latest part# price. By being a Mercury dealer you are allowed to do that, it's perfectly acceptable.

Here's 2 from separate engines just in the past week. See anything similar about where the problem might be happening? This has been going on since 1994 with this component. Here's all the supercedes...where they've made changes just to make sure more of them made it past the warranty period. Then down at the bottom here you have the most current version (which by the way is the same ones in the pic at the top of this post) BTW, there has never been a recall, or even a service bulletin. Am I really supposed to believe that after all this time they just can't get it right? Or am I safe in assuming that this is 100% intended? Add a little fuel vapor under that cowling and she's gonna go up in big flames. Do they really not care ? No not really, because they can blame it on you and your "bad battery" or "loose/dirty battery connection" and their posterior is covered.

Brunswick (Mercury Marine). They force themselves onto the back of almost every new boat with sketchy components, then rape and pillage for years until the unit is finally scrapped out, again by force (NLA parts). Consumers don't realize this, all they know is that Merc's are fast and they are everywhere, so they assume they are #1, which technically they are, but not for the reasons they think. It all started just a few years after Kiekhaefer sold out. Their true loyal focus is on stern drive, the outboard division is like a separate side job with some incredibly shrewd and rotten ethics and management. If you spent a few years in the industry you'd quickly notice the difference in how they operate the stern drive division vs. the outboard division. Guarantee you one thing...an automotive company in this country could NEVER get away with it. They only get away with it because outboard application Marine products are considered 100% recreational, even though the WP, Coast Guard, Military, and many other state and federal agencies rely on outboard motors daily. There are no "commercial" versions of Mercury outboards like there always has been with Johnson/Evinrude. When you hear people talk about products "designed to fail" most of us assume that is a conspiracy theory that truly has no merit, but at the Brunswick outboard division I'd wager that more research goes into insuring that a component will indeed fail post warranty, than goes into insuring that component will last as long as possible. It's a tough one for me because I benefit from this in a pretty big way, but here's the deal.... Sending someone out over water with an engine that I myself do not trust unless I really stick it to their bank account bothers me. A dead engine at the wrong time can put a person in a really bad/dangerous position. Voltage regulators that cost 400-700.00 and routinely CATCH ON FIRE just because battery voltage gets a little low is a perfect example. Are you telling me that they can't prevent that from happening? A motor on fire in the middle of a large lake is a scary thing! "It's not their fault though... it's YOURS for having a slightly substandard battery". Gimme a freakin break. Plastic oil pump drive gears? Really? Inside an internal combustion engine? Yeah that's something you'd expect to last awhile. "Oh it failed? Hmmm, must be because the engine got a little overheated....NOT OUR FAULT, you mistreated the engine". I benefit from this but at the same time It makes me sick. I just don't like it. Do you think John Deere or Caterpillar would still be around if they did crap like that? Hell no!

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This made me chuckle 😂 You should give yourself more credit, Al. Take a Club Sandwich Hopper Smallie fishing sometime. Fun stuff!

The only thing I might have against Mr.Morris is that he now has the capability to stick it to the crookedest, most rotten corporation in the fishing/boating industry, and vastly help out a way WAY better one, but I don't think he's going to do it. That indicates to me that even though he is perfectly well off and knows he has the opportunity to right a considerable wrong in the world...he won't even consider doing it because he'll make just a little bit more... by maintaining the status quo.

I think the hatchery folks do that sometimes to mark fish (one side or the other), but they claim they never have. I found it kinda odd that every rainbow of a certain size that I caught one year had the same missing fin, so I called BS.... and got attacked on here for ever doubting them. My point was that fins are kinda important to a fish, so you shouldn't be cutting them off just so you can identify which stocking batch they came from.