" I was hoping someone could h
" I was hoping someone could help me with some information on my outboard engine.
Here goes, I recently purchased a 16 ft bass tracker, bass boat with a 40 hp merc.
I was wondering what year the motor is?
On the side of the engine theres a little round plug (looks like a freeze plug) and the
numbers on it are 6141011 the engine is black and has blue stripes and it has
thunderbolt ignition marked on the top.
When I first took it out it ran great. the second time it also ran great.
I took it out again this weekend on lake mead and it ran okay but there was acouple of things
that kind of worried me. First it was kind of hard to start and when it
did, it Idle'd kind of hard.
It took a bit to warm up and then ran pretty good. Me and my wife and
son and daughter found a little
beach and went swimming for a while and when we to start it again it didn't want to.
We were almost going to panic because this lake is huge and we were far away on the arizona side,
and we live in las vegas.
Well I checked the fuel line and it was okay I pumped the primer ball
and it started and shut off several
time and finally stayed running, but I had to really kind of ease it
into drive as it seemed to want to shut off again.
The guy who sold it to me told me to pour the whole little quart of
outboard oil into 5 gallons of gas.
I did this and it ran okay the first and second time. Could the mixture be wrong?.
The gas tank looks kind of old but in good shape should I change it?
Last Question, Is this year and model of motor pretty good and
dependable?.
Any reply would be very much appreciated.
Thanks ...Frank, "
" I was hoping someone could help me with some information on my outboard engine.
Here goes, I recently purchased a 16 ft bass tracker, bass boat with a 40 hp merc.
I was wondering what year the motor is?
On the side of the engine theres a little round plug (looks like a freeze plug) and the
numbers on it are 6141011 the engine is black and has blue stripes and it has
thunderbolt ignition marked on the top.
When I first took it out it ran great. the second time it also ran great.
I took it out again this weekend on lake mead and it ran okay but there was acouple of things
that kind of worried me. First it was kind of hard to start and when it
did, it Idle'd kind of hard.
It took a bit to warm up and then ran pretty good. Me and my wife and
son and daughter found a little
beach and went swimming for a while and when we to start it again it didn't want to.
We were almost going to panic because this lake is huge and we were far away on the arizona side,
and we live in las vegas.
Well I checked the fuel line and it was okay I pumped the primer ball
and it started and shut off several
time and finally stayed running, but I had to really kind of ease it
into drive as it seemed to want to shut off again.
The guy who sold it to me told me to pour the whole little quart of
outboard oil into 5 gallons of gas.
I did this and it ran okay the first and second time. Could the mixture be wrong?.
The gas tank looks kind of old but in good shape should I change it?
Last Question, Is this year and model of motor pretty good and
dependable?.
Any reply would be very much appreciated.
Thanks ...Frank, "