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    2005 Mercury 115 Optimax missing and 7 mph top speed

    The plugged tell tale caused the water drawn up into the block to keep heating instead of flushing fresh fresh cool water through.
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    2005 Mercury 115 Optimax missing and 7 mph top speed

    I believe manual says 95 for air and 110 for fuel so I'm right on par.
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    2005 Mercury 115 Optimax missing and 7 mph top speed

    So I recently had a bug pack a bunch of leaves in my tell tale. Overheated very briefly for less than 10 seconds before I got it shut down. Was able to take my hose and 90 off and ream most of it out with a bottom bouncer wire. Overheated one more time for just a couple seconds before I shut it...
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    89 Merc 115 not going past 2000 rpms

    So I have an 89 Mercury 115 2-stroke. Serial Oc106309.* Ran normal for most of the weekend. Slow trolled for a bit and when I opened it up it wouldn't go past 2000 rpms for probably 30 minutes. Bumped up to 3 grand from 30-40 minutes and then opened up all the way and ran faster then it has...
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    Cooling Problems Mercury 115

    I have a 1989 Mercury 115 horse 2-stroke outboard, serial Oc106309. Boat is new to me, only two times out. First time out, alarm goes off for the first five or ten minutes and then is off for the rest of the day. Being new to the boating scene I thought it might me some sort of warm up...
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