WAY OT. Little Baby Merc question

[MAJOR HAVOC]

Greets and beers on this fine summer night!

No 2.5s or 100 MPH here, but I'd appreciate some Merc info from folks who are so inclined.

I've got a line on a little 12 ft Tracker jon-boat shuttle-craft to get me on the water when I don't want to take the battleship out.

It's got a 2000 Merc 5 horse that's being sold as left-over brand new. (I'm gettin' it from Bass Pro Shop)

Honestly, I just put a deposit on the whole thing over the phone and I haven't even seen it yet.

No worries, it's all good and it'll do me fine, but my understanding so far is that it has a built in 1.5 gallon tank.

Beyond the fact that Bass Pro Shop has "brand new, never used" 4 year old motors laying around, my question is:

Does that motor/model have a gas line fitting so I can hook up your basic 5 gallon external tank?

Thanks for your help!

[Scream And Fly]

According to my literature, that engine does have a connector for an external tank.

Greg:)

[MAJOR HAVOC]

Mucho appreciado...

Gotta love a new boat, even if it's just a beer-runner.

We've got 4 weeks left if we're lucky for the water up here... gotta make every day count!

Thanks again,

'zeeya round...

[tdogcarter]

Merc sells the 5 hp in two versions, or at least they did that year.
They have one with a gas tank, and one without a gas tank.
If you get the one without a gas tank, then it for sure comes standard with an external gas tank connector.
If you get the one with a gas tank built in, the external gas tank connector was an option.
It could have both, but mine just has a black plug where the connector should be and a gas tank built in. I think I can troll on a full tank of gas for almost 5 hours. And I bring along a small 1 gallon container of mixed oil & gas, for the just in case I run out, and don't want to oar myself back in.
I do wish I would have gotten the 6 hp as it has a twin cylinder, and is alot smoother, you will see when your trolling with the 5 hp, it is very jerky, and you cannot let go of the handle, or it will turn on you because of the little one cylinder.

Trey

[stokernick]

trey,tighten the steering connection!

[blkmtrfan]

Mine has both the internal tank and fitting for external, with a little valve, but mine is an 01 or 02

[tdogcarter]

Yes, I tighten the steering connection with the spring on there, and next thing you know, it is loose again. About 20 minutes and it was loose. And I would tighten it hard.

The only thing I was thinking about doing was using some loc tite and making it fine to steer but tight enough that when you troll it will not move.

Trey

[Scream And Fly]

Scott, did you ever get that 9.9 or 15?

[blkmtrfan]

Greg, not yet, may have a line on a 15, but a few things changed, My wife and I talked about putting our cruiser up for sale because eventually we would like a bigger one, so I just cleaned our 25 flybridge (which sits in the harbor) up a little and put a for sale sign on it. We figured it would take a year or so to sell it as I was asking top dollar, granted mine is one of the cleanest around but it sold in less than a week, we had plans to go out in it this weekend, but the guy buying it is picking it up in an hour or so :eek:

But I am keeping my inflatable for now, just no good way to use it. Ironically, I told a friend that I sold it and what we wanted next, he knew of one and we are going to look at it tonite, crazy stuff indeed.

So the short of the story is, I will probably wait until I see what we run across with our bigger boat search, Thanks Scott