Chrisravosa36
Chief Petty Officer
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Ok, some may know that I have a 88 Evinrude/Johnson 140hp Looper, and had an issue with basically no power in the motor, it would go 4000rpm - 4500rpm and 27MPH, but no faster. I put 2 new fuel pumps in, this was a VRO motor but the P.O converted it into standard OMC pumps, one 2 prong pump, and then one three prong pump. I replaced both, I also rebuild the carbs. Both of which seemed to help today. I got on the lake, and started fine and easy, brought it out to the open, and opened it up and I got 3000RPM of non-planing speed. about 14mph. I put around for a bit, and I took off the cover to figure out what the heck was going on. I discovered in one of my attempts at taking off the cowling, I must have ripped a spark plug wire. #3 Cylinders tore out of the boot. So I put that on, started it back up and gave it WOT it had plenty of power than, I got up on a plane fine going about 30MPH or so and it started to cut off a bit, Im thinking that it was this wire that I stuck back in. Im going to get new wires anyways, but would this be the issue? It seemed to cut out down low as well, but it was most prominent at 4500- 5000rpm.
Any suggestions. I love this old motor and everything works great on i,t accept for this. + Ive gotten 6 people come over and talk to me about the Mako 17 and this motor, they are just one of a kind.
Here is a video of the motor and boat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xMkXmnBGWk&feature=share
Any suggestions. I love this old motor and everything works great on i,t accept for this. + Ive gotten 6 people come over and talk to me about the Mako 17 and this motor, they are just one of a kind.
Here is a video of the motor and boat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xMkXmnBGWk&feature=share