On May 21, 5:45�pm, 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?

Sounds to me like the guy is a moron. those magnets are epoxied in,
and striking the flywheel can literally break the magnets by shock.

Seems odd it ran just fine. then when you went to re-start it, nothing
happened like you had a bad connection , or something. I take it the
engine still turned free, that is, until he beat the heck out of it?

i would say that no time is the right time to be whacking on the
flywheel, especially on the outside edge.


just an opinion.

On May 21, 10:22 pm, Tim wrote:
On May 21, 5:45?pm, 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?

Sounds to me like the guy is a moron. those magnets are epoxied in,
and striking the flywheel can literally break the magnets by shock.

Seems odd it ran just fine. then when you went to re-start it, nothing
happened like you had a bad connection , or something. I take it the
engine still turned free, that is, until he beat the heck out of it?

i would say that no time is the right time to be whacking on the
flywheel, especially on the outside edge.

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Wow, TY for responding! I have not presented the issue to this person
yet because I am waiting for someone to install the new flywheel that
I had to buy. Frickin' big expense! (the guy who caused the damage
told me, afterwards, that he had no idea what a flywheel would cost
because he had never worked on one. he called me, a short while later,
and stated it was $304 plus 3 magnets @ $100 each which i would have
had to pay him $604 if i bought it from him)...PLUS LABOR @ about 1/2
hour..

Once the new one is installed and I can find out what the actual
problem was (may be as innocent as the killswitch or starter), I will
THEN make my issue with him. TY very much, for stating what I have
found out. I talked to MANY people since and EVERYONE has said NO WAY
can you bang on a flywheel because you'll break the magnets..