Needing some help identifying year and info on my motor. I just picked up an '86 Basstracker, and IT IS CLEAN! Sat in a garage for 5 years. Well, it has a Mariner 40hp on it....obviously not the original motor. Well, I went out to the lake to put it in the water, got new gas running in it, and it runs BEAUTIFULLY! However, never saw a "pee stream". I pulled the cowling off, and the hose was clogged up with a mud wasp.....cleaned it out, and made sure the port was cleaned out, too. Put it back on.....still no water.

So, outside of dropping the lower off of it and checking the impeller and water pump housing and stuff out, what else can I do? Can I throw a little air through it to see if there is something else in it? Doesn't seem that anything is clogging the intake.

BUT, I also need help getting information on this motor. I'm not finding an easy way to ID it, as my Johnson and my Mercury have. The information is: Mariner 40hp, 40EL 6E9 L 418018

Thanks in advance.....bought this thing to flip and sell, and this is the last piece!

mrwillis