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    Crest Pontoon radio speakers shutting off when throttling up motor???

    My son has an older Crest III Pontoon boat with a 60hp Merc. bigfoot on it. When throttling up the motor in forward, for some reason it kills the speakers on his radio in the boat. When in nuetral, it doesnt affect the radio. Then he throttles back down and sometimes they come back on, but if...
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    installed a 9.9 electric start, question?

    Mechanic told me, before I hook the wires up to one of my 12 volt batteries, to check into a battery isolator. I have a 24 volt trolling motor hooked to the batteries. He said if I had some kind of surge of power, it could burn up wiring in my 9.9 merc 4 stroke, if I hooked up one of the 12 volt...
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    How much more RPM gain with pitch

    My son has a 2002 Merc. 60hp bigfoot, I dont know the pitch that is on his prop now, but he is only getting 3500rpms on it now. Would a different prop get him up to 5500? We thought he had a bad coil, and replaced all the coils, Had carb kits put in, changed fuel filter, sea foam, stay build...
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    2002 60hp 2stroke Bigfoot RPM loss

    This is on a pontoon boat. When in neutral and revved up I am hitting 5500 RPMs, but when put in gear Im only getting 3500 RPMs across the lake. Was running rough before this, so I started throwing money at it, with new plugs, 3 new coils, gas filter, sea foam, marine stabuild. One question I...
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    60hp bigfoot Mercury.coil problem? 2 stroke

    My son has one, and we thought the coil went out, wasnt getting fire out of top coil. Bought one from the dealer put it on, work for about 10seconds. Called the dealer, and he said might be wrong coil, said that on this model they made one out of the three coils different. He said he maybe gave...
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    Motorguide FW FB46lb. steering problem

    foot pedal was wanting to stick on me today. It is sticking at one place, when I turn it either way. My manual does not give me a breakdown on how to look at the steering cable, I know nothing about how to check this out. I really had to mash down on the foot pedal to get it to turn. Am I...
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