Gerald2341
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Hello. I've recently gone out and purchased a 1982 Merc 9.8 110 from a man who had just never really used it and before that, it was owned by a sailor who never used it. He claimed his friends went on fishing trips occasionally with it but that was pre much it. He claimed a few months back he took it down to whitewater marine and got the impeller changed and they test ran it. I have the sheet of paper with this info on it so I know that it had actually happened, but just today I realized that in fact, it was 5 years ago. Not a few months back. I have been trying to get this motor going but it just won't go. It ran for maybe 3 seconds today but that was it. I changed the plugs and cleaned the carb out (which I assume is what made it run for those few sweet seconds) but its been 7 hours since then... I cleaned the filter for the fuel pump which had some big chunks of plant or something on it. still nothing. a few nights ago I realized the wires were backwards on the coil so I flipped em green/white to negative and green to positive. The same had to be done to the other side too. I think it has good compression although I haven't checked yet. NOW, here's where I'm pretty sure the issue lays. I am 96% sure it's getting all the fuel it needs, I know it at least is getting some fuel. but when I checked for spark, it worked, but only sometimes. it would spark every time for 1 full stroke on the pull starter, but then it would go away for 3-4 pulls. I think the lwr coil is worse or at least isn't getting all the power it needs or something. My uncle got a 7.5 that stopped running for some reason according to the friend that gave it to him, but he later found out it had a hole corroded in the block and the whole outboard is pretty much rotted out. So that means I have spare parts, I know its ignition system works because he was leaning on the coils once when I pulled the thing over and it gave him quite the shock. Anyone got any suggestions? I'm open to pre much anything and I'm not afraid of taking the engine apart if I have to.