completetech
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- Jul 7, 2012
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I recently brought my 1984 Suzuki DT50 in to have the motor looked at by a mechanic as I was originally having some serious speed problems with the motor seeming to somewhat bog down anything over slightly above idle speed.
He replaced plugs, completely rebuilt carbs 5 or 6 times ( long story, not sure he knew what he was doing) and the motor does fire up and run a bit better then what it was, but not much better.
It seems to me that with this motor on a Sport-Craft Fisherman 170 SS at Wide Open Throttle I should be going faster then 10-12 MPH ( gps based). But the mechanic states that there is no way and I need a bigger motor. Which seems crazy to me.
So with all that stated. I guess I'm looking for some suggestions as to what would cause this to run so slow and seem like it's working so hard at 10 MPH. I can just not believe that this motor only goes 10 mph on a small 17ft boat.
As a side note. The air silencer is missing and we had to rig up something to act as the air silencer as it seemed as though it was sucking way to much air originally.
He replaced plugs, completely rebuilt carbs 5 or 6 times ( long story, not sure he knew what he was doing) and the motor does fire up and run a bit better then what it was, but not much better.
It seems to me that with this motor on a Sport-Craft Fisherman 170 SS at Wide Open Throttle I should be going faster then 10-12 MPH ( gps based). But the mechanic states that there is no way and I need a bigger motor. Which seems crazy to me.
So with all that stated. I guess I'm looking for some suggestions as to what would cause this to run so slow and seem like it's working so hard at 10 MPH. I can just not believe that this motor only goes 10 mph on a small 17ft boat.
As a side note. The air silencer is missing and we had to rig up something to act as the air silencer as it seemed as though it was sucking way to much air originally.