jhouser
Seaman Apprentice
- Joined
- Apr 27, 2010
- Messages
- 35
First thank everyone who has helped me on this forum. This forum is invaluable! I have been able to fix a few problems on my boat for free and learn more about boats, which I love.
Now I have a new problem that I hope I can also fix. I have a 1988 Johnson 88 HP SPL. The last two times I have taken the boat out it has done two distinct things:
1. It has a very hard time starting, takes about 10 minutes! It used to take just a couple of minutes.
2. Now, most of the time when I get it out on the water it will only get up to about 2300 RPMs at full throttle, and will only go about 10 miles per hour. It used to do about 4500 RPMs with no problem and up to 30 miles per hour, just hit it and go. Now it struggles to get to 10 miles per hour.
This happened the last time I took it out last year in November and the first time I took it out this spring. Thinking it was a spark plug issue, I replaced the spark plugs. But this last weekend it was very hard to get started and again only got up to 2300 RPMs.
Does this motor have points or something like that that I could replace? What could it be?
Thanks,
jhouser
Now I have a new problem that I hope I can also fix. I have a 1988 Johnson 88 HP SPL. The last two times I have taken the boat out it has done two distinct things:
1. It has a very hard time starting, takes about 10 minutes! It used to take just a couple of minutes.
2. Now, most of the time when I get it out on the water it will only get up to about 2300 RPMs at full throttle, and will only go about 10 miles per hour. It used to do about 4500 RPMs with no problem and up to 30 miles per hour, just hit it and go. Now it struggles to get to 10 miles per hour.
This happened the last time I took it out last year in November and the first time I took it out this spring. Thinking it was a spark plug issue, I replaced the spark plugs. But this last weekend it was very hard to get started and again only got up to 2300 RPMs.
Does this motor have points or something like that that I could replace? What could it be?
Thanks,
jhouser