My 1994 Mariner 200 FI started running a little rough Saturday. Nothing
major, but then my last motor started out as nothing major too, and I still
haven't got it running right.

The first symptom I noticed was the tach wasn't working. I still seemed to
have plenty of hols shot, but that motor is way under propped so it would
take a pretty bad problem to be really noticable. When I went over another
boat's wake and smaicked against the water the tach started working again.
I felt under the dash to see if it was a loose wire and if wiggling the
wires would duplicate the problem, but it did not. Another time I noticed
the tach out I cut throttle and then brought it back up again and the tach
started working.

Shortly after that I started to notice a miss. I would be cruising at
around 50 in the 5000RPM range and it would have a slight loss of power like
a cylinder quit firing and then start back up again.

What would you suggest?

Fouled plugs?

Bad Pack?

Bad Coil?

This engine has run fantastic everytime out until saturday. When I finished
up for the day and idled into the harbor it seemed to be idling a little
rougher than normal.

Also, it seemed to be blowing more smoke than normal when I first started
out in the morning. I figured that was just from the 5:30am start and it
being a little cooler than usual at about 52F outside.




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Bob La Londe
Yuma, Az
http://www.YumaBassMan.com
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One of the stupidest things we ever bought was a motor with a 400V
alternator running in salt air with its unprotected, soft iron core
sticking out against a bunch of whirling permanent magnets......just
like 1939......

My 175HP Merc Sport Jet V-6 went through 3 sets of OEM coils before I
got wise and bought an aftermarket from someone I never heard of. Fed
up with Platinum Mercury Service, I bought the flywheel puller to get
the magnets off it so I could change it, myself (after set 3), GREASED
the exposed ends of the core so it wouldn't corrode up into a shorted
core and have only used the puller ONCE.....

If you wrap a few turns of cheap, enameled wire around a core and coat
it with plastic, you can charge 5000 times its manufacturing cost and
some boater will pay it. I'm convinced that is why they are "built to
fail".......dammit....(d^



On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 14:38:24 GMT, "Bob La Londe"
wrote:

My 1994 Mariner 200 FI started running a little rough Saturday. Nothing
major, but then my last motor started out as nothing major too, and I still
haven't got it running right.

The first symptom I noticed was the tach wasn't working. I still seemed to
have plenty of hols shot, but that motor is way under propped so it would
take a pretty bad problem to be really noticable. When I went over another
boat's wake and smaicked against the water the tach started working again.
I felt under the dash to see if it was a loose wire and if wiggling the
wires would duplicate the problem, but it did not. Another time I noticed
the tach out I cut throttle and then brought it back up again and the tach
started working.

Shortly after that I started to notice a miss. I would be cruising at
around 50 in the 5000RPM range and it would have a slight loss of power like
a cylinder quit firing and then start back up again.

What would you suggest?

Fouled plugs?

Bad Pack?

Bad Coil?

This engine has run fantastic everytime out until saturday. When I finished
up for the day and idled into the harbor it seemed to be idling a little
rougher than normal.

Also, it seemed to be blowing more smoke than normal when I first started
out in the morning. I figured that was just from the 5:30am start and it
being a little cooler than usual at about 52F outside.




--
Bob La Londe
Yuma, Az
http://www.YumaBassMan.com
Promote Your Fishing, Boating, or Guide Site for Free
Simply add it to our index page.
No reciprocal link required. (Requested, but not required)






Larry W4CSC

"Very funny, Scotty! Now, BEAM ME MY CLOTHES! KIRK OUT!"

One of the stupidest things we ever bought was a motor with a 400V
alternator running in salt air with its unprotected, soft iron core
sticking out against a bunch of whirling permanent magnets......just
like 1939......

My 175HP Merc Sport Jet V-6 went through 3 sets of OEM coils before I
got wise and bought an aftermarket from someone I never heard of. Fed
up with Platinum Mercury Service, I bought the flywheel puller to get
the magnets off it so I could change it, myself (after set 3), GREASED
the exposed ends of the core so it wouldn't corrode up into a shorted
core and have only used the puller ONCE.....

If you wrap a few turns of cheap, enameled wire around a core and coat
it with plastic, you can charge 5000 times its manufacturing cost and
some boater will pay it. I'm convinced that is why they are "built to
fail".......dammit....(d^



On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 14:38:24 GMT, "Bob La Londe"
wrote:

My 1994 Mariner 200 FI started running a little rough Saturday. Nothing
major, but then my last motor started out as nothing major too, and I still
haven't got it running right.

The first symptom I noticed was the tach wasn't working. I still seemed to
have plenty of hols shot, but that motor is way under propped so it would
take a pretty bad problem to be really noticable. When I went over another
boat's wake and smaicked against the water the tach started working again.
I felt under the dash to see if it was a loose wire and if wiggling the
wires would duplicate the problem, but it did not. Another time I noticed
the tach out I cut throttle and then brought it back up again and the tach
started working.

Shortly after that I started to notice a miss. I would be cruising at
around 50 in the 5000RPM range and it would have a slight loss of power like
a cylinder quit firing and then start back up again.

What would you suggest?

Fouled plugs?

Bad Pack?

Bad Coil?

This engine has run fantastic everytime out until saturday. When I finished
up for the day and idled into the harbor it seemed to be idling a little
rougher than normal.

Also, it seemed to be blowing more smoke than normal when I first started
out in the morning. I figured that was just from the 5:30am start and it
being a little cooler than usual at about 52F outside.




--
Bob La Londe
Yuma, Az
http://www.YumaBassMan.com
Promote Your Fishing, Boating, or Guide Site for Free
Simply add it to our index page.
No reciprocal link required. (Requested, but not required)






Larry W4CSC

"Very funny, Scotty! Now, BEAM ME MY CLOTHES! KIRK OUT!"