Hey All, Okay, this has been going on too long and finally I'm going to ask for advise, especially since I don't know anything about motors (the first step is admitting it)! My 1994 25hp merc has amazingly frustrating behavior. Sometimes it starts okay and others not at all, I mean hopeless yanking on the rope with out even a sputter. When it does run, it will restart if I shut it off, but if it kills itself, forget about it. It also has a very unpredictable idle. It tends to kill while (slow)trolling and last year I had to be towed off the lake. I've tried new plugs, heating the plugs, etc. Any info about possible problems/remedies would be greatly appreciated before I have a heart-attack over this thing.
Wasn't terrible at a state park beach. Antelope island maybe. I wouldn't recommend it as a beach destination tho. Figured I was there, I'm getting in it.
The water looked and smelled disgusting with hundreds of thousands of birds sh*tting in there. About as gross as the Salton Sea. When I duck hunted there I didn't even want to touch the water.
It's kinda gross with the algae in the summer but I got in it anyway. Wanted to see the increased bouyancy at work. You can kinda tuck yourself into a ball and you'll just float with your head above water. When dry off you look diamond encrusted with the salt.
We went to the flats too. I dipped a tire on the rental car onto it just to say I’ve been there,but it was still pretty soft from winter melt. After seeing some moron in a BMW suv get dragged out of the muck I had no intention of repeating his stupidity.
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Hey All,
Okay, this has been going on too long and finally I'm going to ask for advise, especially since I don't know anything about motors (the first step is admitting it)! My 1994 25hp merc has amazingly frustrating behavior. Sometimes it starts okay and others not at all, I mean hopeless yanking on the rope with out even a sputter.
When it does run, it will restart if I shut it off, but if it kills itself, forget about it. It also has a very unpredictable idle. It tends to kill while (slow)trolling and last year I had to be towed off the lake. I've tried new plugs, heating the plugs, etc. Any info about possible problems/remedies would be greatly appreciated before I have a heart-attack over this thing.
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