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Mercury 150 XR6 carb tuning / mechanic

Posted By: b00stin4

Mercury 150 XR6 carb tuning / mechanic - 04/14/20 04:09 AM

Looking for somebody in the dfw area to help get an older merc running good again
Carb xr6 with some mods
Anyone know anybody?
I know there were a lot of drag boat guys that worked on these things
Posted By: TLW

Re: Mercury 150 XR6 carb tuning / mechanic - 04/14/20 11:59 AM

any idea on year?.. what kinda "mods"?.. bolt on and/or machined mods?
Posted By: b00stin4

Re: Mercury 150 XR6 carb tuning / mechanic - 04/14/20 06:15 PM

99 model
All bolt on type stuff (it's not anything crazy)
Posted By: TLW

Re: Mercury 150 XR6 carb tuning / mechanic - 04/14/20 06:53 PM

good thing is its a switch box motor.. helps... what kinda boat?
Posted By: b00stin4

Re: Mercury 150 XR6 carb tuning / mechanic - 04/14/20 08:34 PM

Nitro 18ft bass boat
I'm not trying to make it a drag boat
But it needed some ignition upgrades last yr (stator failed) so I went through everything on it replaced a bunch of stuff
The goal was just to make it reliable and not have to worry about anything for a few yrs (hopefully)
And now I cant get it to come up on it's own takes a lot of finesse if I can even get it to run
Posted By: b00stin4

Re: Mercury 150 XR6 carb tuning / mechanic - 04/14/20 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by TLW
good thing is its a switch box motor.. helps... what kinda boat?


Wanna come take a look? Lol
Posted By: TLW

Re: Mercury 150 XR6 carb tuning / mechanic - 04/15/20 02:11 AM

i've gotten to old and feeble ta do ya any good but ya might give Mark Gunter a call.. one of tha best around ft. worth...

https://www.mechanicadvisor.com/tx/weatherford/gunter-marine-sales
Posted By: Lazy Ike

Re: Mercury 150 XR6 carb tuning / mechanic - 04/15/20 07:37 AM

Originally Posted by b00stin4
Nitro 18ft bass boat
I'm not trying to make it a drag boat
But it needed some ignition upgrades last yr (stator failed) so I went through everything on it replaced a bunch of stuff
The goal was just to make it reliable and not have to worry about anything for a few yrs (hopefully)
And now I cant get it to come up on it's own takes a lot of finesse if I can even get it to run

bang He is not real close to you , but call Gary, Hughes Marine ,Wylie, he is good . Hope this helps.
Posted By: boatman025

Re: Mercury 150 XR6 carb tuning / mechanic - 04/15/20 01:22 PM

We can take care of you I have a circle boat and build a drag boat been around all kinds of racing and been known to do mod to bass boats
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