waterinthefuel
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We took our old '79 70hp out fishing today and it idled like a new engine right at first. We fished, idling quite a bit, and by the end of the day it would die when putting it into gear. Even cranking the idle up to fast idle didn't help. If we could get it to finally catch and showered down on it, it ran pretty good until we fell of plane then back to the wild rough running. We had to paddle the boat onto the trailer, any hopes of idling up were gone. Plugs were as follows: 2 wet and 1 dry. What could be the problem? If it fowled the plugs, wouldn't they all be wet? Was it running on the one dry cylinder? Why did it have normal power at high throttle settings, and still showed plugs with differing results?