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his is really an easy fix you can do yourself without having to pay a mechanic. 🔷️ HERE IS PART 2 of this Mercury outboard fix. Finding the high pressure fuel filter:
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Hey there, welcome to getting it done north of seven. My name is Roland
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I'm gonna tell you an issue. I had with my boat just in case you're having the same issues
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So what would happen is I would go out in the lake or the river and it would fire up
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No problem, and I'd ride the boat up the river and I go
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Probably a five-minute ride at a good speed and then when I got onto the lake
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I would open it up and the thing would run great and then all of a sudden
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It would you could feel like I was it was like I was pulling a lot of weight
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It started to slow down and it was kind of chug chug chug
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But it wouldn't slow it wouldn't shut down so I didn't know what it was I used up on the throttle put it in neutral and
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It was kind of spittering and sputtering so I shut it off and At that point that was the first time so I went and checked the ball
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And the ball didn't seem like it had a lot of pressure on it, but it was alright and
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There was water coming out from you know, and the water circulates through your motor to cool it the water spits out
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It was fine. It was spitting out so I Fired it back up and it ran great for about another three minutes two minutes and it started doing the same thing
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Just chugging and chugging so I shut it off and Fired it back up again, and it ran another little ways and I made it all the way back to the boat launch
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I loaded it up brought it home Well, I was talking to some people and they're saying this one person was saying
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Well, maybe it's a cooling problem because when your engine overheats On the boat motors, they're set up to shut down if they overheat
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So maybe the impeller wasn't Running water through the cooling system wasn't bringing it into the engine and circulating the water through your motor
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So I went and got a new impeller and my your impeller is like a star
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It has like six or seven little paddles on it. It's round. It's about this big and
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When they're wore out they'll be all kind of bent over like this because they run around inside of a ring
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But they're wore out. They're really weak. So Mine only had two prongs that were kind of bent over not looking that great, but you know what I changed it
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Anyway, it was a $30 fix. I thought well if this is it no problem
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so I Fixed that did that repair took it back out the river
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It ran all the way up the river and across the lake. I thought I had my problem solved all sudden same issue
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So I was looking on a forum and they said first to check your fuel
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Supply from the tank to the motor or even the tank. Maybe it's your fuel line or the
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squeeze ball This thing here So I checked the fuel line. I took the connector off and
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Everything looks old right and I didn't want to spend a lot of money going into the motor
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I want to check other things first. So I cut the line and I thought well, I'll just if it's okay
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I'll just put the hose back over and I'll clamp it right so I cut the line and inside this fuel line
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there's another liner and it's like a Clear, but I guess with gas it changes color to like a tan color
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So there's a liner inside of this hose and they say that it will break down over time with the heat and old gas
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and just Fuel sitting in there through the winter months and stuff and it'll eat away and it'll plug your fuel supply
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So I took it off I looked inside and sure enough there's chunks of that liner inside and you can see the liner that was
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Still there had been Chunks had been missing. So that was an issue. I thought I got my problem, right
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So I went and bought a new fuel line with a ball and everything the whole rig from the tank to the motor
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You can buy this as a kit So I bought that put it on try it out again
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Same thing went all the way up the river up and further on the lake view and I thought yes, I got this
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Well, I was wrong again and started doing the same thing so I thought what could it be and
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I checked the ball again the squeeze ball and It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be should be but I'm not sure really how hard it should be. So I
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Thought you know what? What what could it be? I got to check the tank
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So I checked the the tank. There's a pickup tube inside this tank
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Underneath the gas gauge or maybe you don't even have a gas gauge. I thought you know what
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This is an older boat It used to sit around on the Sun a lot the other side all the time before I owned it
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So I thought I'll I'll change to put brand new tank on it. So that's what I did
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I went bought a new tank and just a side note when you buy a new tank if it's made by Scepter
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If your dealer doesn't tell you there's an adapter so that this
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This fits on this adapter here It doesn't come with the tank and if your dealer doesn't tell you or whoever you buy the tank from
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You're gonna be going home and you're gonna be oh I have no I
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Have no Connector so now you got to go back and buy another
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Part which I had to do so that connector alone was $20 at least in Canada
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So now I got the new tank. I have the new field fuel line and
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I know it'll run but will I have that issue again? So what I've done is I'm looking for a fuel filter on the motor
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I took the cattle off and I found the fuel filter now apparently there's another fuel filter. There's two
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And it's hidden down in here somewhere I'm gonna change the other one because it looks really dirty
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I have you can see it's like a plastic cowling around that filter a cup and that fuel filter looks disgusting
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So I'm going to take it off and put a new fuel filter on and then we'll go from there
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So here's the fuel filter I was talking about And you can see it's pretty dark in there
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So what you do is you just slide this out of this bracket here and your fuel filter
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Should be in your hand and you can just loosen this Now what I did is I cut an old
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Pepsi bottle here and to catch the gas So I'll remove the filter and check it out
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And I can see right now That my fuel filter is very dirty, and I don't know if you can see that
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Yeah, you can see that see that that's that's the that's dirt or old gas
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But probably part of that liner is in there and I can see it on the filter too. So I think we found our
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biggest problem here I ran out and got a filter and Like on here. I just took the filter off this bowl with the filter inside
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But they sell this all as one unit now and I'll put a link
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To where you can get one down below in the description So right now I went ahead before I started filming. I forgot so there's a couple of tie clips
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Some plastic ties like this holding the fuel lines onto this unit here, so I just cut them off and now I'm removing the fuel lines and
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You got to make sure you don't get these mixed up too. I imagine so I
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Mark this one here with a white pencil Okay, so I attached it from the hoses the fuel lines. So now I have to take this off. I
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Just used a pair of pliers on the nut take all this off
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And I'll put this on here It's just a rubber grommet and some washers so that it can fit and squeeze onto this bracket
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So it's nice and snug and not floating around That's all it is
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So I'll put it back together And I'll just snug it up with some pliers here it's good enough
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So this is the new one and I put on this and now I'll just hook these lines back up
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So I mark this line here and I'll just put this one back on here like this
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And this one on this side And then I'll put plastic ties on these
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Okay, so the new filter is in and I hook the lines back up put the ties around here to hold the fuel lines on
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So I mentioned the fuel filter that is down here there's two fuel filters the one I changed in this one
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This one wasn't in stock so I couldn't get it But I talked to a mechanic and he said that the fuel goes through that other fuel filter that I just changed
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It goes through there first so That filter would have caught all the stuff all the stuff from the fuel line that went into there and
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I asked him straight up. I said so there's a With this fuel filter get plugged up with any with any of that stuff that went through and dirt and stuff
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And he says no, I wouldn't have made it through to this other fuel filter
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But he says you should change that fuel filter if it hasn't been changed in a while
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I haven't I've had this boat about three years, so I've never changed this one
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but I thought I'm gonna put this one on and we'll try it out
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I'm gonna put this one on and we'll try it and if it works all good and all I'm gonna get or in an order
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Of the other fuel filter and when it's in stock, I'll replace it. So I'll recap really quickly everything I did
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So this thing would run So I'm running it up the river in the lake and it's running good
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And then it would start to chug and chug and cut out right shut it off and then it would go again
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So what I think what was happened with all that fuel pressure Going through while you're running
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It's causing all that stuff that that liner outside of the inside the fuel line that had brought it and broke down
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It's causing a plug and it's plugging up and when you shut it off all that stuff goes
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Back, right. There's no more pressure. So that's why I was able to run a little further until it all gathered there and plugged again
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So I changed the fuel line brand new fuel line from right from the tank
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right to the motor and I probably didn't need to but I put a whole new tank or bought a new tank for it as well
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So everything is new and the filter as well and you saw the filter it was a it was it was bad, right
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so I Bet you this thing runs good and I'm gonna come back. I'm gonna take it out on the river
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take it for a ride out on the lake give it a good run and If there's no issues, I will come back and tell you and we'll go from there
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I am back from my test ride. This is actually the next day. We actually rode the boat up the river
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Around for over an hour last night We got home kind of late just before dark and I didn't remember I had to finish this video
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But yes, the boat is working great now fixed all the problems and
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Everything is looking great. So if this video helped you give me a thumbs up leave a comment below
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So thanks for watching and have a great day and we'll see you on the next video
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