merc 7.5 AGAIN!!! :( please help

ollyit · 25 July 2006, 21:29

fired her up again and now the tell tale has stopped spewing out water, any idea's - changed the water in the barrel as it was a little clogged up with dirt, were do I start with the engine as i'm a little scared!! - thanks boys!

Hightower · 25 July 2006, 21:36

did you have water comming out the tell tail before? Did it suddenly stop comming out? If the latter I would suspect either a massive failer of the water pump or (more likely) something has got stuck either in the tell tail of assosiated waterways

. I would suggest disconnecting the tell tail first as close to the block as possible and running her again.

ollyit · 25 July 2006, 21:45

good start andy, thanks, yeah it was coming out nice and strong then weakened, then intermitterently with gaps, to a dribble now nothing - bloody thing cant wait to get shot of it now

, shame as its good runner

Hightower · 25 July 2006, 21:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by ollyit

shame as its good runner

Or it was!

I'd have suggested bringing it over at the weekend but off on holiday I'm afraid.

Try the simple things you might have missed something. Hope you get it sorted.

Downhilldai · 25 July 2006, 22:44

If I were you, I'd be looking at swapping it for something along the lines of a Mariner 3.3

Nos4r2 · 25 July 2006, 23:22

Before you dismantle it blow hard down the telltale with an airline or backflush it through the telltale with a hose then try it again.If your water barrel had crap in it's quite likely to have blocked the telltale.

If that doesn't work then get the lower unit off and have a look at the impeller and impeller housing. While you've got it off blow through/flush through the water pipe from the impeller housing to the powerhead.

ollyit · 26 July 2006, 07:12

nice one nos, i'll see if ur magic works again! - i'll nick sum compressed air in a can from work

and give sum with the hosepipe from underneath

Nos4r2 · 26 July 2006, 09:42

You'll probably need more than air in a can. If you can't get higher volume than air in a can and the canned air doesn't work then stick the bare end of a hosepipe up against the telltale for a couple of seconds.

Nasher · 26 July 2006, 10:45

Olly

Stuart is very proud of his new compressed air system at the unit.

Take your aux down with you when you pick up your RIB.

Nasher.

antiqueboy · 26 July 2006, 18:31

my tell tale starts well but always gets clogged within 15 minutes so i run it in the hope that the cut out will work if it over heats, when i flush it i always push something up the t/tale (best suggestion i have read on this forum is a plastic strimmer nylon)and find that it is salt crystals, then its fine again until she 's in the sea 20 mins later.....

ollyit · 28 July 2006, 15:08

good news, we sorted it, thanks for your replies, - me and the "nasher" dropped the leg off checked the impellor, which looked fairly recent, put it back together after blowing through the tell tale with sum tubing and it started again!?! - good news on my part were both a little baffled at wot it actually was but hey!!

thanks again