My father and I recently bought a 1989 vasserret<br />with either a 1985 or 1986 150 mercury black max xr2.<br />when we bought it we knew something was wrong with the<br />motor which was fine because we were going to fix and<br />sell the 150 and put on a 200 we had. first time out<br />it did not run right so we took it home an saw the<br />stator was melted. after replacing that we took it out<br />again to test it and it ran good for about 15 minutes<br />untill it became doggy, and when we removed the cowel<br />we could tell the stator had melted again because of<br />the smell. so we took the boat to a marina to see what<br />was wrong and they thought maybe it was the flywheel<br />or the crank had been damaged and was spinning in an<br />oblong circle causing too much friction with the<br />stator. so they checked the crank and that was fine,<br />so they replaced the flywheel. after testing it out it<br />melted another stator. at the marina they had a spare<br />motor to run to see if they could find the problem so<br />they completely swaped parts, harness, flywheel,<br />everything, they spent 5 hours rebuilding the motor<br />and took it out and it melted another stator. so now<br />it has to be something electrical in the boat right?<br />well any information you could offer would be greatly<br />appreciated.
