Reply To: Mercury KE4 impeller help needed

[Anonymous]

Thanks Dave Bernard, they should put you on the payroll here, this guy has helped me here and over the phone twice since I started this. So here’s an update, I talked with Dave earlier and he suggested pulling the lower unit. Luckily everything went smooth and I got the lower unit dropped. I used my compressor and blew air through the lower unit/impeller catridge it was clear and clean. I blew the water tube going up to engine with air and also hooked up a waterline with reducer hose clamped to the line and flushed it. No impellers came out just water. I stabbed the lower unit back together put everything back and fired it up again. This thing runs like a top. Wide open with great throttle response and will idle as low as any fuel injected 2 stroke ive owned however…it still only spits water off and on and I feel that is certainly getting hot. Not sure where to go from here, but the last thing i want to do is put it on my boat and lock it up 10 minutes into the trip. Its a smooth clean complete little motor and I would hate to part it out but i need a runner not a display piece. Any ideas? Dave I know you got something left in your bag of tricks