tchavei2003
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I bought a Mercury 2 strokes 50 HP some weeks ago (I use it in salty water). In the first 2 hours the engine ran perfectly then suddently it died at low speed. I first thought it could be lack of gas since this is a new engine and I didn't know the mileage but it wasn't. since then, the engine would die immediatly at idle and response to lever would take 5 to 7 seconds (reverse was only a teoretic concept). Last week, the merc mechanic spend 3 hours around the engine finding a fuel leak. Yesterday I noted that the engine, that runs much better now (low and high speed), has a rough idle.(I think one cylinder is misfiring). I also noted that he can't maintain idle for more than 2 minutes and when I shift fast from reverse or high speed to neutral it dies immediatly. The engine has 6 hours on it! Is it a question of fine tuning the idle rpm? Any suggestion?<br /><br />PS- I don't know if I'm too strong, but my primer bulb never gets very hard... I suppose it was the fuel leak but now that part is fixed and it still doesn't seem hard...<br /><br />Thank you very much for you answers ))
