Properly winterized engines usually come back to life normally, in most cases anyway. If the boat ran well the previous season and now it dosent , something happened or was overlooked at the end of the season. Was there any issue prior to winterization?
What does this mean? Last year, I put on a 4 blade 19 pitch and replaced the bearings with it.
Does the prop turn freely in neutral or do you need 2 hands to turn it?
I get the feeling your leaving something out from your story.
Here goes, may be long, but want to put it all out... and thanks for the responses. This is my first boat, and learning at a slow pace lol.
Bought it last year, it was sluggish, never really got past 35 MPH or 3800 RPM area if I remember right.... got on here did some research and a post. Put a 4 blade 19 pitch prop. got to 4k rpms roughly and I would say around 38 MPH which still seemed slowed, but I just figured it was old and tired. Had a few gauges replaced as well in the meantime.
Winterize procedure......sucked out oil, replaced and it's a little high........drained lube from lower unit and pumped back in from bottom port until reservoir was full using OE fluid....replaced separator and filled with seafoam.. (won't do that again) Filled gas tank with ethanol free gas and used blue stabil.
Bought several gallons of pink antifreeze... drained all ports on the block 2 on left and 2 on right and one in front center..... filled up bucket, used muffs and ran boat while slowly fogging the carb and pink was coming out the exhaust... fogged it a lot and once i was almost out of antifreeze, fogged it until it died, then parked it.
I read the procedure here on adults only and will not use muffs again
This year, pulled boat out, hooked up hose and it cranked right up. Ran really rough and rich. Let it run at idle for a while. I had to turn up the idle screw a hair cause it kept wanting to stall out..two days later, started it again before going to the lake and it ran better, but still had a slight roughness along with running rick... took to the lake and here we are on this post making way.
Prop spins all day in neutral with ease.....I did not replace bearing, I was mistaken. I bought prop/hub kit.
