On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:19:25 -0800, pm12801 wrote:


The boat contains a Mercury 250, serial number
The boat and boat engine has been meticulously maintained,
and has extremely low hours, under 60.


Well, mine's a BIT smallier: a 2005 9.9hp 40-stroke. I've had it in to two
different dealers four times, to fix some fairly simple but annoying
problems:
1. it doesn't start when cold "on idle" (ie the way it says in the manual)
2. it doesn't idle when cold
3. it vibrates a lot, esp. when in gear in idle (ie WAY more than the old
Johnson Seahorse it replaced)
4. There's a big "lag" as I throttle up out of idle.

Basically, I've been told "that's the way they're supposed to run" and I'm
SOL on getting it fixed. HOWEVER, I was also told by the mechanics that
the Solution to most of the problems is the Idle Mixture, which they're
NOT ALLOWED BY LAW TO CHANGE!

It does have lots of power and abolutely NO smoke (don't give me any BS
about "newer" 2-strokes not smoking - I've seen them, and they smoke
koff!koff! )

Lloyd Sumpter
"The Tin Boat" Mirrocraft 12