jonboatboy
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- Aug 14, 2011
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I have a 72 18HP. Evinrude that i got from a guy that has been sitting in a central heat and air garage for about 5 years. He told me to take it and try it and if I liked it I could purchase it from him for just 400 bucks and any money I had to spend on it he would knock it off the price. When I first got it home it wouldn't start so the next day I took it to a repair shop to have it checked out. Compression was 100 on both cylinders, fire was good. I took it home and pulled the carb off it and cleaned it with carb and choke cleaner and compressed air. Put it back together and it would start and idle but wont pick up speed. I changed the spark plugs and replaced with what was in it (Champions) and I gapped them to .30. Now it idles great and starts great too, but it takes a while for it to pick up speed (bogs) and bout the time I get it up on plain it bogs down again. I don't know what else to do and the repair shops around here act like they don't want to work on it(its a pull start) and I am all out of ideas.