Can't go over 2500 rpm's?

Well I gave up as this motor has many issues and they keep coming the more we dig!!

So as of Friday I will be the new owner of a Mercury 2.4 175hp. Should be all installed and running by Friday night if the gods are with us!!

BS, CB, and I will bang it out in no time!! :sun:

Any one need OMC parts??
 
Yep I am coming to the Dark side, I was there once years ago, and as you have noticed I never went back!
But its a great deal and I have been promised I will not regret it!

So wish me luck!
 
Bummer dude. I personally wouldn't give up on the JOHNNY-RUDE myself. Unplug the black/yellow wires from the power packs, if it still happens then it isn't your harness. You will be able to run the engine, but to kill it you will have to flood it out with the primer. Your 86 has NO slow functions to it, it doesn't even have a fast idle. Another thing to note is your engine on that boat should be swinging a 15 or 17 pitch prop. I'm only slinging a 15 1/4 X 15 STILLETTO on my HYDRA with a 200 topping out at 43 @5500 RPM's. Slightly to large of a prop WILL keep a small bore engine from pulling up under load. Another quick thing to try is to push the key in for the primer when it won't go any faster, this will tell you if it is leaning out or not.

I wish you would have decided to get rid of this thing a few months back, I REALLY wanted a small bore 225 looper for my HYDRA. I still think your current engine is a MUCH better engine than the MERCURY for your application.
 
Well now you show up!! Just kidding!

Well besides thge 2500 RPM thing, all the wires on the motor are soft and as we took the tape off them there were all kinds of breaks and green wires. Also some one had lots of conections spiced in. So the wires had to get done!!

The shift assembly were the shift intrup is also wore so bad that it would not shift right any longer and I had to have it welded. And reverse still isn't all that great.

The water pump is peeing real slow and there is water coming out the front of the mid section near were the steering arm bolts. Its a pretty bad leak, so bad that I think water must be getting to the drive shaft and rusted it in to the motor, as we can't get the lower unit off!
I mean we jumped, kicked. wedged, pryed, hit with a hammer that thing is on there solid!!

The compression has always been perfect in the 90's all 6 cyl. And when it was running this whole summr it ran great!! I guess what I should have done was to take and got the spare motor going, but that had a bad lower unit and bad eletric also.

So with all the things going on with the motor I have decided that the best thing to do is move on to another motor. The Merc just happened to show up at the right time for the right price.
And belive me after buying the house and all the toys I got for the boat over the winter I don't have a spare penny around here!! I had too beg borrow and steal to get this merc!

So wish me luck on the Dark Side!

Therm, no more vacations during the fishing seasons, you might have perveted me from going to the dark side! Its all your and skools fault for not being there for me!:hide:
 
MJ, being that thing is leaking water in those locations, it more than likely has corroded the spline locations at the lower bearing of the crankshaft and the shaft to the foot. It was probably caused (by the last owner) from improper alignment of the waterpump tube or it has rotted a hole in it.
I've fooled with one motor that was sunk for a period of time and it was a real SOB to remove.
The wedges and bumping of the propeller engauged over a period of days finally released it.
Sorry you went black.
 
MJ - If you don't like it . . . I'll buy it back from you :)

This was my dad's boat for 15 years . . . 25ft steigercraft with a 2.4L 200hp. 10.5 gph @3800 with a 15 pitch prop. It would top out at 5800rpm loaded. On a flat calm day it would just touch 40mph. The motor was still running strong when he repowered in 2001.

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This was the first motor I ran on this boat.

But the Wellcraft went Thur a few

165 I/O, raw water cooled, rotted from the inside out
175 Yamaha, Oil injection failed
2nd 150 Yamaha was junk when I got it,
175 Evinrude that I sold with it.

I really need to buy NEW but just can't swing the cash, and what a shame to spend $15,000+ for are short season!

I am sure I will be fine this time around, I can feel it! BS gong to take care of me!!
 
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You are so close to fix the Rude ..I have a v6 lower unit if you need it fix the darn engine it will last ..Good luck with the new engine , fix this Rude for spare , so when Ferm is on the road again you use the spare until he's back !
As for going to the "dark" side now you can compare !!
 
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You are so close to fix the Rude ../QUOTE]

NYMack - You should see that motor . . . The motor is on it's 10th life. The only way that it'll survive is with a donor mid and lower and all new ignition and harness . . . and it's a BIG "if" whether the lower will drop. It's a total rehab . . . I wish it weren't. MJ is getting the motor with controls and prop mounted and rigged for $600 + the piles of aluminum scrap ;)
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Yep time to move on!! Is the Merc the way to go?? But we are going to find out fast!

It makes a ton of seance on my part! BS gets all the parts that I will ever need, he knows everything there is to know about them, and is willing to help when I need it!
I getting a great deal, and I have BS & CB as friends and fishing partners when ever they want to go!

What else could a guy want??

well thses guys are cute but a couple of super models would top off the deal! :love:
 
I'm glad someone on here is getting that sweet motor BS has......I bet you will like the Merc MJ.

Ever since I saw those extra clean Merc/Mariners that BS is getting in, I have been looking for a cheep speed boat hull to put one of them on (please don't mention this to my wife).
 
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Well we finely got the bugs worked out of the Mercury!!

When we took for its first run it would bog down bad when trying to give it gas and BS said the Stator was gone.

When we got back to the house we ck the carbs and found a hole ton of crap in one! So BS had another set of carbs we cleaned all out and made sure all was well. Then tried again, but forgot to ck and clean fuel pump and when out there it ran better but the pump was failing.
So back to the house and got a kit and rebuilt the fuel pump.

Back to the water, again ran 100 times better but yet again something was still wrong, BS says like he had been the hole time the Stator, so back to the barn again we go.
This time BS comes with a pile of stuff everything we woukd need to rebuild the motor! He did a Stator test according to the book and the Stator was indeed bad!, Then ck the switch boxes and they were fine, the rectumfire (LOL) also had a hole burned thru it and we replaced that.
Then pulled all the wires 4 broke as we did this, and ck all the coils. replaced the wires and off to the water again!!

Well after 3 days and replacing most of the ignation system the motor ran like a champ!! We went out for a good hour of running and not a hicup!

It is the smallest horse power I would want on there, but it performs well. I might try a different prop but its not bad right now, my tac is not the best and we are not sure it right but its close.

So thanks to BS I am back on the water as of today!! Thanks BS!! :sun:
 
Get a MIRAGE PLUS or MICHIGAN WHEEL APOLLO large diameter prop. The extra large diameter will help out with the smaller HP on that big tank. You'll lose a little top end, but your mid range and slow speed control will be MUCH better.
 
Yes it has a 15 X 17 right now, But I have a Hustler 15 1/2 x 15 here that just needs the merc hub, $35, I am going to give it a shot see what happens, and get another Tac. I agree a bigger proop is going to do the trick!!

If the Tac was right?? It was running 25 Kt at about 4500 to 4800 RPM Tacking wot at 5200 at 30 kts
 
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