Mercury 500 at Kolsnaren, Sweden. 15p mercury prop and the boat is an ockelbo t14 25th june 2011 newly renovated engine with many nwqparts. 4 cylinder engine
I have the same motor on my 15 foot boat. While boating in rough waves, I hit a sandbar and the motor popped off the transom and into the lake. I jumped into the lake and with the help of another guy, we put it back on the transom and got a tow back to dock. To make this short, I went home, drained the carbs, pulled the plugs and turned it over a few times, added some spray oil to the cylinders and she was as good as new. Very good engine!!
I got a 72 or 73 85 hp, on a 16 ft bayliner, runs pretty decent except stalls alot idling in gear, Talked to an older boat mechanic and he said all older mercs did that, great power and speed, crappy idle
These old 50 hp mercs we’re on nearly every ski boat on every lake when I was growing up. Man they were fast, for the time. I remember the ones with the silver wrap around covers were everywhere, parked at every sock it seemed.
I'm resurrecting a 1977 Merc 500. I have it on a 16 foot Aluminum open bow runabout. Great motor but a bit expensive to replace parts on. I'm learning how to be my own mechanic for it.
I feel you, cost a lot of renovate this old machine. But it's very easy to work on yourself, we basically took it apart almost to molecules and then changed the bad parts and changed parts and piston rings and such on the kitchen table. the big pain in the ass is to insert the crankshaft into the block, but it works. the cooling plate around the spark plugs are often corroded and the casket can be worn, when it is worn and corroded you can get water into the block where the action is at, that isnt good. finding good cooling plate is really hard nowadays. and the bolts it's mounted with can easily break when unscrewing them. and then you have to drill in the engine block and fix it. total pain. Enjoy your engine!
Looks like she runs pretty hard. I picked up my first boat last fall. It has a Merc 25 2 stroke tiller. Not original motor to the boat which was a Merc 40 2 stroke remote steer/throttle. The boat is a 1997 Fisher Spectrum Avenger SC 16 that one of the previous owners removed the side console. The 25 is somewhere between 95-97. We will have to see here in a few more weeks how the 25 will push it loaded with fishing gear and the family. We are not little people lol.
Bobg Gallagher you are definitely gonna want a larger motor. If you can find a 1999+ merc 40-60 2 stk, it will serve you well. Most powerful 40-60 motor ever made. 59 ci. I have a 50. Yamaha is like 46 ci. It's almost as strong as yamaha's 80 hp. And they are easy to work on and cheaper than yams.
you lift the motor up,and you'll see a thing that you can move you move it up/down so you can lift it out and have it in water, trim and trim, it's just a metal thing with a stopper thing on
Is trimming better? I just the this motor but can’t go no more than 10 mph I feel. But it’s giving so much power, should I have the idle st max when I want more speed?
no its a 16ft larson, the trim is not working its a manual trim and im not sure where the lever and or button on the motor is to lift it outta the water
@@ucube33 Svart relingslist. Röd upptill, vitt skrov, inget säte eller ryggstöd baktill. Det verkar inte ha funnits något, då inga hål eller stöd i plast finns. Ingen typskylt i motorbrunnen finns heller.
do you have a hydrofoil on the motor? and im not a boat expert i just got the same motor and im not sure how to raise it out of the water, can anyone help me please?
Great video. Any chance you can give me the model numbers off the propeller you’re using? Looking like it preforms well and I’m looking for a prop as my motor didn’t have one. Any help would be great. Thank you
I cannot as of now. Depending on the size of the boat and so on you need to find the proper pitch for it so you don't burn out the Reed valves or even the piston rings when giving gas. The props on this model has a solid rubber hub and two small outward facing dots on the hub. You can't miss it. The dots are there to secure the prop with a washer that you put before the nut gets screwed on
what is needed to connect steering rod to motor. I have that rod on my boat and just got a mercury motor but don't know what parts to get to connect steering rod to motor to control it
hi their. i have just got the same engine as the one in the video. ive tried pulling the chord but it wont pull. is this because its in gear or somthing? or is the engine seized?? help.
You need to take off the "hood" and carefully dissasemle the pulling mecanism and maybe get a new rope. The problem is probobly that the fluwheel knotches are warn from all that pulling in 40 years so maybe even get a new flywheel
when I was a kid my step dad had a friend named mark and he had a motor and a boat and the motor looked just like that just like that the motor on the red boat
NO ugly hydrofoil for this beautiful engine and rig. Raise it out of water? What's your problem? You can trim in so the engine has a straight angle downwards with that little sprint that is sitting in those holes. If your engine isn't "raising" there are many things that could be wrong. Not running on all cylinders, too much pitch on the prop, boat is too big?
Ive recently had to deal with spark plugs. If you can get the champion ql76v also known as l76v or sticker number 898 is original mfg recommendation but i find the mercury dealership sites have updated it to BUHW2.
i have one, i took it out today for the first time, i have a 6.5 gallon tank. it was full but it didn't last for more than 2 hours. i actually ran out of gas in the middle of the lake.. do i have a leak or does mercury 500, 50hp consume lots of fuel???
sounds like a little bit much, but they do consume a lot of fuel. for us it varies a lot. sometimes it's barely moved in the gas tank sometimes its like wow its light now.
Haha I have a Mercury 500 1974 and it burns fuel like a Saturn V rocket but its a realy good and fun engine to run. I think these old Mercury two strokes can run forever.
