Alaboat
Petty Officer 2nd Class
- Joined
- May 21, 2015
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- 129
I need some input on my recent purchase. It's a 1995 Chris Craft with 4.3 OMC. Previous owner discouraged me from running on hose with muffs; something about over pressurizing seals or something. He said he always ran in drum of water. Is there any truth to that? I have always run my outboards with muffs with no problem, what is different with I/O?
Also, the shift control has a button in the center of shift lever pivot point. He said that it was a choke button and to push it several times when starting. I could never get it started this way and actually drained the already weak battery. Put in a new battery and did some research in the manual and found out depressing this button disengages the shift mechanism and acts like a high idle lever. Wow, Really? Previous owner totally oblivious on how to start the engine properly. I will try this out later today to see if it works this way if I get some feedback on running in driveway on muffs.
Thanks.
Also, the shift control has a button in the center of shift lever pivot point. He said that it was a choke button and to push it several times when starting. I could never get it started this way and actually drained the already weak battery. Put in a new battery and did some research in the manual and found out depressing this button disengages the shift mechanism and acts like a high idle lever. Wow, Really? Previous owner totally oblivious on how to start the engine properly. I will try this out later today to see if it works this way if I get some feedback on running in driveway on muffs.
Thanks.