Well now you show up!! Just kidding!
Well besides thge 2500 RPM thing, all the wires on the motor are soft and as we took the tape off them there were all kinds of breaks and green wires. Also some one had lots of conections spiced in. So the wires had to get done!!
The shift assembly were the shift intrup is also wore so bad that it would not shift right any longer and I had to have it welded. And reverse still isn't all that great.
The water pump is peeing real slow and there is water coming out the front of the mid section near were the steering arm bolts. Its a pretty bad leak, so bad that I think water must be getting to the drive shaft and rusted it in to the motor, as we can't get the lower unit off!
I mean we jumped, kicked. wedged, pryed, hit with a hammer that thing is on there solid!!
The compression has always been perfect in the 90's all 6 cyl. And when it was running this whole summr it ran great!! I guess what I should have done was to take and got the spare motor going, but that had a bad lower unit and bad eletric also.
So with all the things going on with the motor I have decided that the best thing to do is move on to another motor. The Merc just happened to show up at the right time for the right price.
And belive me after buying the house and all the toys I got for the boat over the winter I don't have a spare penny around here!! I had too beg borrow and steal to get this merc!
So wish me luck on the Dark Side!
Therm, no more vacations during the fishing seasons, you might have perveted me from going to the dark side! Its all your and skools fault for not being there for me!
