acwd
Well-known member
I bought a boat, trailer and a couple of motors yesterday. Anyway on of them is a 20 hp Merc. The guy said he couldnt get it to pee. He put a new impeller in it and still no pee and the shifter was messed up. So I got it home and dropped the lower unit. Checked everything out. The seal that the water tube goes in was in there wrong so I fixed that. Blew air thru the tube into the block and the tell tale tube to make sure that there was no blockage. Put the thing in in a barrel fired her off. No pee. So out of the barrel and back on the boat. Put the muffs on it. Water ran out the exhaust when it was running but no pee. I let it sit and run for a minute or to then it started to pee. So I let it run a few minutes like that. Back in the barrel. Fired up ran for 15 to 20 seconds no pee then it started to pee and quit. So I blew air back thru the pee hole. And it started to pee regularly. Ok the question is how long should it take to start to pee? Its taking about 15 to 20 seconds. Normal? or does it still have some junk pieces of the old impeller floating around in the block? And how would I get them all out? Access cover? All of this is between the idle and start position on the handle.
Thanks
Steve
Thanks
Steve