Members HarryJ Posted February 19, 2013 Members Posted February 19, 2013 McCallister Marine - Danny Vasquez. No doubt very good!! Danny is the man when it comes to fixing outboards, especially Mercs.
fishinwrench Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 I can vouch for the voltage regulator failure. My 2000 model 200 EFI regulator caught fire and burned everything on the outside of the engine block. The only good thing was it was covered by insurance since it was damaged by fire. I put the insurance money on a new Pro XS 200. Boy do I see a difference in hole shot (3 liter vs. 2.5 liter) and fuel economy now. Lucky !!! You owe that adjuster a beer or three. I have seen a bunch of regulator fires and most insurance polices won't cover them. They can be almost completely avoided by keeping a fresh battery maintained with terminals clean and tight, and keeping an eye on the voltmeter for spikes over 14v or a suddenly inconsistent tach reading.
Members HarryJ Posted February 19, 2013 Members Posted February 19, 2013 Lucky !!! You owe that adjuster a beer or three. I have seen a bunch of regulator fires and most insurance polices won't cover them. They can be almost completely avoided by keeping a fresh battery maintained with terminals clean and tight, and keeping an eye on the voltmeter for spikes over 14v or a suddenly inconsistent tach reading. I had a jumpy tach reading, so I switched to the alternate rectifier tach output. After several hours of running, the tach again started to get jumpy, the engine lost rpm, I looked back and saw smoke coming from the motor cowling. Grabbed the fire extinguisher, but luckily the gasoline didn't ignite. The boat orginally had a two battery setup, sharing the starting battery as one of the 24v trolling motor batteries. I changed to a three battery setup shortly before the fire, but the rectifiers were probably already damaged.
drs7558 Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 Where is McCallister Marine? I've heard about Danny being very good with Mercs.
jay bird Posted February 21, 2013 Author Posted February 21, 2013 All right took it to Brutons Marine in Golden. He called and said it was idleing very rough with a fair amount of smoke, compression was 107 to 110 all cylinders (a little low) spark to all cylinders, but plugs where wet and black when he pulled them. He is going to look into it a little more, but is a little worried it may be reeds. So how much does it cost to replace reeds? and what are the chances there is no dammage to cylinder walls? Thanks.
fishinwrench Posted February 21, 2013 Posted February 21, 2013 "Worried it MIGHT be reeds" ? ...... so is it or not? All it takes is a piece of paper (Post-it notes work great) over the intakes to see if it's sucking or blowing. Sucking only=Good / Sucking AND blowing = Bad. Not to be a jerk or anything but just ask him to go ahead and complete the troubleshooting and hit you with a ballpark estimate. Sounds like it would be worth a set of head gaskets to take a good look at the cylinders, but honestly, with those readings it sounds more like his compression guage might just be "tired". Maybe request that he do a cylinder leakdown test. And as I mentioned above, the overly rich condition is more than likely a flooded vapor separator dumping raw fuel into the crank case. And there's a really good chance that is ALL that is truly wrong. Maybe he checked that and found it ok, I dunno ....just going by what you've mentioned so far.
jay bird Posted February 21, 2013 Author Posted February 21, 2013 Ok will ask thanks for your help. What should replacing reeds cost??
jay bird Posted February 21, 2013 Author Posted February 21, 2013 Ok think I am going to spokane just to get another opinion for that money
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