MECOA .46 MARINE with Pull Starter not starting

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MECOA .46 MARINE with Pull Starter not starting

Postby Yooper » Wed Jun 22, 2005 6:38 am

I have a MECOA .46 MARINE with Pull Starter that I purchased last summer and the engine has never run. I have taken the engine out of my boat and created a platform for it for testing. After much time and effort, I have gotten it to start for about one second at a time and only a time or two. Beyond that, it has done nothing. It is definitely getting fuel, the glo plug is getting hot and I have no exhaust on it to allow max air.

I am thinking the problem could be fuel flow for my problem, but there is no way for me to know as I am not mechanically wise.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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Postby MECOA » Thu Jun 23, 2005 8:57 pm

It could be too much fuel too. Remove the glow plug and spin the over several time with the pull starter. Make sure the plug glows bright orange when the battery is attached. Install the plug and try again.

You should see fuel being pulled up the fuel line when you try to start it.

Be sure the fuel is fresh. Have the carb open about 1/4 the way.

if this fails, unscrew the idle needle one full turn and the main needle one full turn and try again.

Be careful not to over rev the engine. read this...
http://www.mecoa.com/faq/carb/needle_marine.htm
http://www.mecoa.com/faq/conrod/broken/ ... conrod.htm
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Re: MECOA .46 MARINE with Pull Starter not starting

Postby KBoatCrew » Sun Mar 09, 2008 10:41 am

Yooper wrote:I have a MECOA .46 MARINE with Pull Starter that I purchased last summer and the engine has never run. I have taken the engine out of my boat and created a platform for it for testing. After much time and effort, I have gotten it to start for about one second at a time and only a time or two. Beyond that, it has done nothing. It is definitely getting fuel, the glo plug is getting hot and I have no exhaust on it to allow max air.

I am thinking the problem could be fuel flow for my problem, but there is no way for me to know as I am not mechanically wise.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.


Is it possible that since you're not using a muffler, you have no positive preasure in the fuel tank/supply.

If you have it out of the boat, I would put a spinner on it and use an Airplane Starter to get it running. Every time I use one, I get even with all those o49's that wouldn't start when I was a child.

http://myrcsupply.net/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=13798
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