srr5008
Well-known member
I have a 1995 25HP Mercury Tracker Outboard that recently started acting up. I recently replaced the starter, ran it hard for an hour or so without any issues. The next time I took it out, it worked fine for the fist few hours. Then, all of a sudden I started having this issue.
The motor turns over and idles fine. The minute I put it into gear, its starts to sputter a little (sometimes it dies). Any time that I give it throttle, it shuts off. As a test, I had someone pull my prime knob on the motor as I was giving it gas, and this worked fine. I don't know much about boat motors, so I am drawing on my knowledge of car motors. This looks like an accelerator pump problem to me - the motor obviously isn't getting gas when I work the throttle, and we are able to bypass it by giving the motor a "shot" of gas with the pull to prime button.
Can anyone confirm my line of thinking? Or offer any suggestions as to other problems that I might be having. I am leaning more towards the accelerator pump problem because it runs fine once I get under full power. If it was a carburetor problem, I would think I would have problems all the time, not just when I try to accelerate from a stop.
Thanks,
Steve
The motor turns over and idles fine. The minute I put it into gear, its starts to sputter a little (sometimes it dies). Any time that I give it throttle, it shuts off. As a test, I had someone pull my prime knob on the motor as I was giving it gas, and this worked fine. I don't know much about boat motors, so I am drawing on my knowledge of car motors. This looks like an accelerator pump problem to me - the motor obviously isn't getting gas when I work the throttle, and we are able to bypass it by giving the motor a "shot" of gas with the pull to prime button.
Can anyone confirm my line of thinking? Or offer any suggestions as to other problems that I might be having. I am leaning more towards the accelerator pump problem because it runs fine once I get under full power. If it was a carburetor problem, I would think I would have problems all the time, not just when I try to accelerate from a stop.
Thanks,
Steve