Anyone have a good place to get Mercruiser parts online? I had a fuel pump go bad this weekend. (after we had driven 4 hours one-way) Three Mercruiser dealers did not have the part in stock.
The worst part was that when it first died, I was anchored with about 5-6 Mastercrafts. My Tige was the one boat to not start. The call over the radios went out "Hang on guys, Joel has a Tige".......how embarrasing.
To top off the weekend, we got a flat on the trailer 10 miles away from the hotel on the way home. Wrecked the rim. Trying to find a new rim and tire in Minoqcua on a Sunday is next to impossible. Had to drive 180miles+ to find one.
From poking around on the web, it seems that for my boat (1997 PRE2150wt) which has a Mercruiser EFI 350 Magnum Gen+, you can't buy a fuel pump. You have to buy the cooling kit along with it, which I already have. So why do I have to pay an extra $100+ to get something I already have??
Does anyone know of a different setup I could use? Anyone know of a place where I can get a pump only??
I know you are going to ask, but I have not checked the volts at the connection, but you could hear the thing going. Was making noise you could hear above the engine before it died, so I'm pretty sure its the pump.
It seemed that it only failed after it sat for a while and got hot. If I could get it started, it would run fine once the water got moving through the pump to cool it off. Once it sat there, it would not restart, or it would restart and just burn off the gas in the line and then die.
The worst part was that when it first died, I was anchored with about 5-6 Mastercrafts. My Tige was the one boat to not start. The call over the radios went out "Hang on guys, Joel has a Tige".......how embarrasing.
To top off the weekend, we got a flat on the trailer 10 miles away from the hotel on the way home. Wrecked the rim. Trying to find a new rim and tire in Minoqcua on a Sunday is next to impossible. Had to drive 180miles+ to find one.
From poking around on the web, it seems that for my boat (1997 PRE2150wt) which has a Mercruiser EFI 350 Magnum Gen+, you can't buy a fuel pump. You have to buy the cooling kit along with it, which I already have. So why do I have to pay an extra $100+ to get something I already have??
Does anyone know of a different setup I could use? Anyone know of a place where I can get a pump only??
I know you are going to ask, but I have not checked the volts at the connection, but you could hear the thing going. Was making noise you could hear above the engine before it died, so I'm pretty sure its the pump.
It seemed that it only failed after it sat for a while and got hot. If I could get it started, it would run fine once the water got moving through the pump to cool it off. Once it sat there, it would not restart, or it would restart and just burn off the gas in the line and then die.
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