On May 24, 2:09 pm, wrote:
Hope he didn't Charge much for this High Tech Diagnostics
On 21 May 2007 15:45:37 -0700, Damsel in Distress
wrote:



PLEASE help!

2003 Weeres 20' Pontoon Boat has a 40hp Mercury Outboard.

It ran GREAT! Idled GREAT! Started GREAT! EVERY TIME..

One day, I started it (it always started on a dime and ran like a
dream), drove it a few hundred feet, turned it off. About 2 hours
later, I turned the key and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING happened, no sounds, no
nothing. (battery is perfect)..

I called a 'boat mechanic' who said 'pull the cover off, I'll be right
over'. He proceeded to BANG on my flywheel about 15 times, on the side
and here comes grit and pieces of the magnets.

My question: Is there ever a time you can ever bang on a flywheel
besides the striker plate or during the removal procedure?- Hide quoted text -

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Yikes! TY for your input! ANY more info to add about a bangin' on a
flywheel? He didn't charge me a penny for this POUNDING or the tow
across to my dock. I asked him what he wanted for his service and he
said not to worry about any charge. Just that the flywheel will cost
me $304 and the magnets were $100 each and that I have 3..That would
be a cost of $604 Plus labor @ 1/2 hour.

I had to order and purchase a new flywheel. (I tryed to get a used one
to save on costs but was told by Dock's Marina in Budd lake, NJ, that
it's too new to find a used one and had to purchase a new one at the
cost of $404 which comes WITH the magnets (already loosing and lost SO
much 'on the lake' boating time)... AND the cost of someone taking the
BUSTED one off and installing the new one... Thanx again