"Free manuals" do they exist ?

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Hi all I'm new here and new to owning a boat/tinny. I'm on several other forums for combine harvesters and gold/prospecting and dirt bikes.
I spent years water skiing wake boarding and fishing but always on other peoples boats.
Today I bought our 1st tinny, old 10ft rivited alloy hull, fresh paint and a 3.3 mariner , mostly to fish with my 8 year old son and see how we go , if we love it I can see a future upgrade.

So my first question to the boating world is , are there really free workshop manuals?
They all say free until you click download.
I'm after a full manual for a 1999 3.3hp Mariner.
I'm not against spending the money but the con that they are "free" when there not and then you go to payment and in gets dearer with the conversion to Australian dollars ?? makes me not keen to pay a cent.

Anyway thanks in advance and I guess now I'm boating you will see me posting often.
 
There are some repositories of free manuals on the web but they are rarely advertised as such. If I can remember where I found the manual for my 2.3 I’ll let you know.
 
Aussie farmer said:
Hi all I'm new here and new to owning a boat/tinny. I'm on several other forums for combine harvesters and gold/prospecting and dirt bikes.
I spent years water skiing wake boarding and fishing but always on other peoples boats.
Today I bought our 1st tinny, old 10ft rivited alloy hull, fresh paint and a 3.3 mariner , mostly to fish with my 8 year old son and see how we go , if we love it I can see a future upgrade.

So my first question to the boating world is , are there really free workshop manuals?
They all say free until you click download.
I'm after a full manual for a 1999 3.3hp Mariner.
I'm not against spending the money but the con that they are "free" when there not and then you go to payment and in gets dearer with the conversion to Australian dollars ?? makes me not keen to pay a cent.

Anyway thanks in advance and I guess now I'm boating you will see me posting often.
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Here‘s a Dropbox link to my Mercury 3.3 manual, I think it’s the right vintage and I believe the Mercury is a rebadged Mariner, same outboard.

Mercury 3.3 outboard manual.pdf
 
Thanks Robih , that is the owners manual for what appears to be the correct vintage , which is very helpful.(y)
Now if I can get a workshop manual I will be setup.
Chromedome I did veiw that thread but my tablet doesn't want to open the site for the manuals.

Basically I want to service and check every bit that should have been serviced over the last 20 years, im good with machines but never played with a outboard before.
 
Motor runs nicely except top 5% of throttle, it dulls off and honestly it's probably quicker at 95% than 100.

Here's my plan of attack,
New spark plug
Take feul bowl off and decide if I need To clean carby
See if there's a inline feul filter
As I'm new to outboards the following are guesses
Change oil in bottom of leg
Change impeller (I take it they have one)
Clean and regrease the bits that take grease.

Anyone want to give me a list of what to check or do ?

And also advice on what needs to be marine spec like , spark plug , grease , oils and anything else.

Honestly the boat plus motor cost me $500 Australian so I know for sure if I took it to a place to be serviced It would cost more than that in parts and labour.
 
Exploded parts diagrams have always done for me for outboard rebuilds. For torques etc. just go light and don’t break anything!
 
I have no contribution to make other than welcoming you to the forum and asking an unrelated question - are any of the Wurzels on the combine harvester forum?
 
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