darren mac
Seaman Apprentice
- Joined
- Aug 11, 2008
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- 38
Hi again,
My 175 evinrude has no holeshot! It cranks and idles fine but I have to baby it when I put it in gear. After slowly coming up on plane the boat takes off and has all the power and speed I can handle. Absolutely no top end problems. If I hook it up to a hose I can easily crank it and when I put it in gear I can rev her up safely with no problem. However when I am in the lake and crank up I can rev fine but when I go into gear I bog down and the engine dies. I asked on this forum about this same problem and was given some advice to clean the carbs which I did. I carefully measured everything and put it back as found. I used a depth mic on the needle valves of the carb bodies and set them back as found. I have not tried cranking yet as I wanted to know the correct placement of these needle valves. My service manual reads close down and back out 5 to 6 turns, doing this puts them about where I found them originally. Is this correct? The carbs were actually new and I am wondering if they were set up properly when the motor was rebuilt this past spring. I have tried a new fuel bulb and new plugs. someone even suggested that I might be trying to take off with the motor tucked too far under ? I was used to fuel injection so maybe I the driver could be the problem. Looking for ideas ...PS this problem was not always there. It ran great this past spring, I have the holeshot problem only in the last 5 or 6 trips on the water and it is intermittent. Thanks, Darren
My 175 evinrude has no holeshot! It cranks and idles fine but I have to baby it when I put it in gear. After slowly coming up on plane the boat takes off and has all the power and speed I can handle. Absolutely no top end problems. If I hook it up to a hose I can easily crank it and when I put it in gear I can rev her up safely with no problem. However when I am in the lake and crank up I can rev fine but when I go into gear I bog down and the engine dies. I asked on this forum about this same problem and was given some advice to clean the carbs which I did. I carefully measured everything and put it back as found. I used a depth mic on the needle valves of the carb bodies and set them back as found. I have not tried cranking yet as I wanted to know the correct placement of these needle valves. My service manual reads close down and back out 5 to 6 turns, doing this puts them about where I found them originally. Is this correct? The carbs were actually new and I am wondering if they were set up properly when the motor was rebuilt this past spring. I have tried a new fuel bulb and new plugs. someone even suggested that I might be trying to take off with the motor tucked too far under ? I was used to fuel injection so maybe I the driver could be the problem. Looking for ideas ...PS this problem was not always there. It ran great this past spring, I have the holeshot problem only in the last 5 or 6 trips on the water and it is intermittent. Thanks, Darren
