Greetings All ... my Mercury outboard on my pontoon boat starts well, idles ok but when I move the forward lever (apologies but I have no idea what the throttle lever is called on a pontoon boat and this is not a tiller type engine) to put it into gear and accelerate, it goes into gear ok but...
Greetings all, like I've mentioned the motor starts goes thorough its fast idle thing but when it goes to slow idle it keeps going slower then dies. We bought the pontoon boat, motor and gas tank (those portable red plastic tanks about 6 gallons) in 2000. The first thing that came to mind is...