brokenwrist
Seaman
- Joined
- Feb 17, 2016
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- 73
Finally got to take my boat out today for a shake down run. The engine has always idles great at home in the tank after I reset the timing, and synched the carbs. Got into some wind today that the electric motor couldn't get me out of and had to use the outboard. When I stuck it in gear and gave it some throttle all the engine wanted to was stall out. Once it was warmed a bit though, it would finally move in gear but didn't want to get up and go even with 3/4 throttle it only idled along. I pulled the carbs off and went through them, found them surprisingly clean for having sat for 3 years. I did find though that the enrichment screws weren't anywhere near being set correctly with each other. I did some digging on the interwebs and found that the 85 horse chryslers the screws are set 1 1/16 turns out. Is this correct for the 70 horse outboards also?