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    Mercury 500 1971 50hp won't start

    The bearing of the starter ? I've opened the starter already, I've rebuilt many of these, it's totally fine. There's something wrong with my motor indeed, that's why I'm posting here to try to get advices on what could it be. The engine ran a week ago, and there weren't any of these resistance...
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    Mercury 500 1971 50hp won't start

    I've checked all of these yep. New gear oil, fuel pump works fine, tried 3 batteries. Starter works perfectly and it does the same thing when I try to start it with a cord, gets some really strong resistance at some specific points just like you can see on the video when the starter even gets...
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    Mercury 500 1971 50hp won't start

    Hi everyone, I recently started restoring an old Mercury 2 stroke, from the decal and internet, I believe it's 1971. I manage to start it few times and run it for few minutes outside the water, but when we tried it on the water, it wouldn't start anymore. I'm an okay mechanic I think, I've...
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