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These motors only had 16 hours on
them, and were supposedly still under warantee, but it seems that Mercury
considers gasoline to be a contaminate and thus they don't cover their carbs
fouling up and becoming useless.

If I was a poker player, I'd call your bluff. 16 hours? Gas a contaminate
(what are ya supposed to run 'em on)? Instead, since I like to fish, I'll
call this a troll, and leave it alone...sheez.

--Mike

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I personally would go w/ a Merc EFI.
Having said that - between these two engines I would go w/ the Carb
engine if you plan on keeping it for years to come. The HPDI will get
better fuel economy and as long as it is under an extended warrenty it
should be fine. Once the warrenty expires I would want to get rid of it.
Repair bills will eat you alive on one of these engines if anything
happens to it. Also - resale will be very low because of this.



Well, after just having had to replace a full set of carburetors on a pair
of Mercury Four Stroke outboards I can assure you that having carburetors
is not a guarantee of trouble free boating. These motors only had 16
hours on them, and were supposedly still under warantee, but it seems that
Mercury considers gasoline to be a contaminate and thus they don't cover
their carbs fouling up and becoming useless. They also seem to have a
problem with supply, because so many people are replacing them, that you
may have to wait months to get replacement carburetors.

These Mercury outboards I have are pieces of @#$% ! \

I am certainly never going to buy another carbureted Mercury motor, and I
may never buy Mercury again period!

Rod McInnis



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On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 04:33:20 GMT, "mgg" wrote:

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If I was a poker player, I'd call your bluff. 16 hours? Gas a contaminate
(what are ya supposed to run 'em on)? Instead, since I like to fish, I'll
call this a troll, and leave it alone...sheez.


I don't know about the carb thing because I have never had that happen
and I've never heard of such.

However, I can speak to Mercury warranty policies and they frankly
suck. I have a 67# thrust MotorGuide trolling motor on my Ranger
(Great White) and the control potentiometer caught fire. Obviously,
the trolling mtor is now junk as the lower unit also took a huge hit
internally and burned out at the same time. It was purchased new two
years ago and this happened about a month before the warranty expired
(this summer in fact).

Mercury said in refusing the warranty claim: "The motor must have been
submerged at some point causing corrosion and we're not responsible
for those kind of owner/operator errors".

That's an exact quote from a letter received from Mercury concerning
this warranty claim. In short, they don't want to have to replace my
trolling motor.

I'm still working on it and the prospects are excellant. However, I
would be willing to believe anything about Mercury warranty practices
at this point.

Oh, and just for the record, I wouldn't buy a Mercury engine if you
paid me. Not only because of this problem, but when you shift gears,
there is so much gear lash in the lower unit that it sounds like a
head on collision between two eighteen wheelers doing a buck twenty
five.

Ok - that's hyperbole. I meant to say eighty five.

Take care.

Tom

"The beatings will stop when morale improves."
E. Teach, 1717
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