captcrappie
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- Jul 20, 2009
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Looking for help. Bought a 1985 17 foot ranger with an 1985 Johnson V6 VRO outboard that hadn't been used a lot over past 2 years. The guy I bought it from had a blown cylinder replaced from a previous owner. I am anal about maintenance so I am already on my second set of plugs and I have ran the boat about 6-8 times. Anyway this past weekend on the new plugs the boat was running like a dream as I had problems in the past getting it on plane. When the boat was relatively hot I had run on plane for a good 10 minutes, i slowed down for rough water and went to get back on plane and couldn't. It had done this before but once the engine was turned off and back on it was fine. I can run at no wake speed but that is it. Idle is ok but chokes out easy. I doubled checked all lines and cables and nothing appeared out of the normal. I am relatively novice at inboards and autos but much more limited in diagnosing this outboard. I have noticed that there must be some loss of pressure in the fuel line as the bulb pump will need pumped if I sit for a long period of time. Could this be a compression issue? Spark?
Thanks!
Thanks!