I stripped everything down last night. You all made me nervous about cylinder cracks, so I popped that back cover off again and went over everything in there with a bright light and an inspection mirror, but I can't see any evidence of a crack anywhere in there. It all looks pristine, honestly...
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I've got a problem with water intrusion into the top cylinder (only) on my 3 cylinder Mercury. Yesterday i had it out on the water and it started fine, putzed away from the boat launch fine, ran perfectly for two miles up the lake at probably 2/3 throttle, and then I throttled...
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Wondering if some of you can shed some light on the root cause of this issue for me. I've got a '66 Corson runabout that I hung a 60hp Mercury on last fall (the 45 horse that it had on it didn't have quite enough 'oomph' with a load in the boat). It now tops out around 30mph and...
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I've got a Mercury Classic 50 that came on a 17' Corson Fiberglass runabout that I picked up earlier this summer. When I got it, the motor wasn't running. Previous owner replaced the plugs, wires, and switchbox, and rebuilt the carbs. I replaced the Stator and Trigger, and it...
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I just purchased (as in, 4 hours ago) a 1966 Corson 17' runabout with an 80's-vintage Mercury 45hp 4 cylinder 2-stroke OB (OB205350 I think; it's pretty faded so it might be a OB205750). The motor runs fine above 2000rpm (ish) but won't idle. The previous owner cleaned and rebuilt the...
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I just bought a 1966 Corson with an 80's vintage 45hp Mercury motor (OB205350, I think-it's pretty faded). It runs fine above 2000RPM (ish) but doesn't idle.
PO replaced the switchbox and plugs, also cleaned the carbs and replaced the fuel filters thinking it was a fuel delivery...