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1982 40 hp Mercury trouble?/Question?
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<blockquote data-quote="Quackrstackr" data-source="post: 41973" data-attributes="member: 437"><p>If you have water coming out of a plug hole... you have problems.</p><p></p><p>I wouldn't run the motor until you figure out what that problem is. If you hydrolock that cylinder you are apt to snap a connecting rod or at the least the water is going to cause ring problems and rust on that cylinder wall.</p><p></p><p>Run a piece of wire or weed eater line as far up the discharge hose as you can. Sometimes insects get in there and dirt dobbers like to plug them with mud. You could also have some sort of vegetation or weed seed stopping it up.</p><p></p><p>That hose isn't your biggest problem though, from your description of what is happening.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quackrstackr, post: 41973, member: 437"] If you have water coming out of a plug hole... you have problems. I wouldn't run the motor until you figure out what that problem is. If you hydrolock that cylinder you are apt to snap a connecting rod or at the least the water is going to cause ring problems and rust on that cylinder wall. Run a piece of wire or weed eater line as far up the discharge hose as you can. Sometimes insects get in there and dirt dobbers like to plug them with mud. You could also have some sort of vegetation or weed seed stopping it up. That hose isn't your biggest problem though, from your description of what is happening. [/QUOTE]
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