It was advertised as only having 49 hours..........got a pic of the ticker to prove it......
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Hmmmmm........quickie lower unit??? Those are nice!!!
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Yea was it 49 once the guage was put on??????? I doubt that the motor had only 49 hours. If you believe that then....well never mind...need not say nothing more.
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Hey Dink, I hope you get your boat up and running soon without spending some major bucks....nothing worse than listening to the wife...yak, yak, yak....Goodluck..
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I am not bashing him. I feel bad for him or anyone else. A lot of people buy things and really do not check it out 100%. In the end, the dealer who he bought it from should man up and help him. Again if it was a carb Merc I am sure the motor is at least 5-8 years old or older would you agree. How many motors do you think that are that old have 49 hours on it. I think the dealer lied to him. I put on a hour meter several weeks after I bought my boat/motor and it shows 9.8 hours. Well I really have 18 more because I put it on when I brought it in for my 10-20 hour service. On new motors you can put the computer on it and get the acutal hours...hour meter on the boat means nothing. So do not act like I am bashing him. I have bought stuff in the past and got screwed just like everone else.
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sounds like burnt cylinder. hope not but sounds just like what happened to my merc. number 3 got hot burnt and siezed "no oil" couldnt start motor. all i got was a click from the soleniod. i was told after the cylinder cooled down it freed up and that is why it started again. ran like crap low rpms home. happened twice same motor same cylinder. after the second time i unbolted it in the canal. went yamaha and couldnt be more satisfied. optis are nice but id stay away from the verados
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Dink I wouldn't want to be you at your house these days....I can just imagine the things my wife would say about my boat selection with the problems you are having. Don't fret though, the first one I bought had a cracked transom. The second one had a blown stringer on the first outing. The third one was stolen. The fourth one was taken by hurricane Katrina and I am on the fifth one now!
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Dink, these things happen and can happen to ANY manufactured piece of equipment. I don't give a damn if it's a Yamaha, Merc or Mercedes!! That's a fact. I have a friend with a Yamaha that is down at this very moment. $1500 to fix! It's hard to tell. And if a motor isn't making noise, no one is going to tear it down just to do inspection. The most they would have really been able to do is check compression and look at the oil in the lower unit. |
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amen !!
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I had a 200 Mercury offshore engine and never had anything major happen to it that cost over $200. It was right at 14 years old when I sold it.
It only had to get towed one time in all them years. I also had a 40 Mercury that had zero problems in 10 years. Rita took that one from me. I now have a Yamaha because that is all that comes on the boat I liked and I have heard good things about Yamaha. But I have also heard a lot of good things about most 4 strokes made today. In my opinion, the Mercury carburated engines were some of the best outboards made. Most of the commercial fishermen in Cameron used them until the 4 strokes came out. |
My 40 Merc is awesome. It took a LOT of abuse this year while crawfishing and still runs like a top. The biggest thing I've had was a prop bushing and I don't think that qualifies as a real problem. If it does, $40 and out.
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I had the 3 cylinder, 2 cycle, Merc. 40 HP. motor.
The only issue I had was the little primer bulb on the motor got plugged up with trash and I had to change the prop out a couple times cause I ran in shallow water all the time. It was a duck hunting, alligator hunting and crabbing boat. |
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got one too...
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well,dont know about mercs too much,Ive only had 3 yammies,with never any problems. Oh yeah, I did have a little johnson one time(npi) until if fell off the transom in the river.Talk about leave you dead in the water.
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