My wife is at the lake with her girlfriends. She took the boat out today for a leisurely ride and she said it died while idling along in gear. She said it didn't initially want to start again, but she released the shift cable at the shifter so she could give it some throttle while starting and...
I have a 2003 200BR 5.0 MPI with factory tower and Smart Tabs. My son has some friends who go wakeboarding with us, but they say the wake is too small. As my son improves, he is also wanting a bigger wake. I've tried to trim the drive out to push the stern further into the water, but I'm afraid...
I took my 2003 200BR with the 5.0 MPI and Alpha outdrive out today. After pulling the wakeboarders for a while, I took a run up the river and opened it up a bit. After a minute or so at about 4500 RPM's I felt a bump that I think was a brief deceleration from a miss. It continued intermittently...
I have ordered a wakeboard rack for the factory tower on my '03 200BR. The dealer wanted to know the diameter of the tubing so I put a micrometer on it and got 1.895", which obviously isn't a standard size. The guy I spoke with said most towers are made from either 1.875" or 2.000", but this is...
My 03 200 BR (5.0 MPI - Alpha G2) was leaking drive lube and the dealer determined the leak was at the impeller housing, which was limiting the amount of water being pumped to the engine. They said, based on this, it should have been running hot. It always indicated 175 or so on the water...
I have been leaking drive lube ever since I bought my boat. In the 14 hours I've put on it since I bought it, I have added over 2 quarts of drive lube. I have finally found evidence of the leak, which appears to be where the upper and lower gear housings mate. I have never dropped a LGH on a...
This weekend was the first outing of heavy use for my recently acquired 03 200 BR with an Alpha 2nd Gen sterndrive. When I bought the boat, I noticed that the gear lube monitor reservoir was about half way between Full and Add. I put about an hour on the boat several weekends ago while I was...
I have a 2003 200BR with the 5.0 MPI Alpha. It's new to me so I have no past experience with it, and I experienced an intermittent alarm yesterday afternoon while waiting my turn at the ramp to put it on the trailer. The manual indicates that the intermittent alarm is to alert for low drive oil...
I finally got the opportunity to launch my new to me 2003 200BR. The water was fairly choppy, but this might be the roughest riding 21-foot boat I've ever been in. My 1987 Bayliner 2250 Cobra would have handled this water with no effort at all, but the 200 was very rough. I varied my speed...