plaidpotato
Cadet
- Joined
- Apr 12, 2006
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- 14
I'm a new boater, and I know nothing of boats, I'm much more farmiliar with automotive systems.<br />I recently purchased a 96 16' bayliner with a 75hp<br />force outboard, I'm assuming its about the same year model. The engine seems to run fine after warmed up, idles well, and even runns well up past 3/4 of the throttle, on full throttle it boggs down and if held at full throttle it dies. The engine restarts right away, but this concerns me, the owner said he left a full tank of gas in the tank for nearly a year, with no fuel stabalizer or anything like that. He drained as much as possible out of the tank and put about 7 gallons with oil in before we went and ran it.<br />I want to check the compression first to make sure the engine isnt seriously damaged, how exactly do i check compression, can I use a standard automotve comp guage?<br />Can I use automotive grade decarb spray in the carb to try and blow it out?<br /><br />Thanks for the info