Recent content by Raleigh

Jaay 757, I've done both engines and had to prime both of them. Took out top blue plug-garden hose at strainer filled until a good stream was coming out blue plug-install plug, give it another shot of water to fill the strainer, quickly close the strainer, start engine. Water should flow from...

A follow up to the engine getting warm. As you recall when it reached 180 the alarm would go off, and I replaced the raw water impeller with priming difficulties. After everything was working properly, it still got warm and alarmed. Short end of this story, my diver cleaned the raw water intake...

Thanks all. Lesson learned. It won't take that long, in the future, to "prime" the pump, so to speak. Y'all make me feel better, knowing someone else had a similar problem, and I wasn't the lone anomaly.:smt038

Dennis, we removed a non functioning air activated winterizing drain from the outgoing water line, and reconnected without the drain apparatus. It didn't seem that the drain would cause a blockage, but since it didn't work properly anyway, we removed it. We don't need to winterize on Galveston...

Interesting. Pulled the pump, checked the vanes, hand turned the pulley, the vanes self corrected in two turns of the pulley. So regardless if I turned them incorrectly, they should have corrected quickly. The lack of water flow was much longer than 30 seconds, and the risers got way hot...

I'd like some input or verification please. I had decent water flow from my port engine, but it is overheating just enough to set off the alarm (180 degrees). It had been almost two years since the raw water impeller was changed by a Merc. shop. I undertook the project to change it myself. I...

Kreole Kid, I did indeed! Thought I had run over a crab trap, so I quickly pulled out of the ICW, thinking a tow had somehow dragged one in the channel. Lesson put into memory bank, in the event it ever happens again.

Kreole Kid, It gets better, my port engine issue...plug wire came loose!!!!

Here's the follow up. I finally became exasperated and called in a qualified Mercruiser Technician. The new IAC I installed was bad. How frustrating this has been. But finally repaired. Thanks for all the input.

Kreole Kid, Replaced the IAC, when I changed the plugs, 5 months ago. Also did compression check, all cylinders were strong at 185, and within 2 lbs of each other. Engine has run just fine for 5 months, running almost every weekend for an hour or so. Thank you for your suggestion, because this...

Jimmy Buoy, Thanks, the transmission did indeed make some "sound", when I pulled out of the channel to anchor and assess the problem, I initially thought we'd caught some debris on the port shaft, we later dived and all was clear. I appreciate the approach that I didn't think about. Sensors and...

Thanks scoflaw, new plugs were installed 5 months ago. I guess it could be the wires, visually they look fine and are routed not to chafe or burn.

At cruise speed, port engine suddenly lost the ability to fully rev and lost power. Sounds rough, and only revs to 3000. This is the second time this has happened. The first time the symptoms just disappeared after doing a compression check, replacing plugs, and installing new spin on fuel...

That should be a light switch. Sounds like your bulbs are burned out.

Thanks Lake Erie Boater-I now have my weekend task.