Hi All,
First time posting here. I'm not much of a mechanic but I still know my way around. I just bought a boat with a 61 Evinrude Lark 40 HP motor on it. Here's the problem. I took it out yesterday and I had no real problems with it other than it seemed like it was revving too high the whole time. Today I took it out and I have this problem.
Background info: The shifting cable is bent so it shifts into forward no problem, but it has a problem shifting "backwards" into neutral or reverse, so I disconnected it and I was controlling the shifting manually.
When I started the motor it immediately went forward like it was in gear, but it went forward slowly. Then when I manually shifted into forward while at the same time having the driver shift the shifter in forward I didn't hear it "engage". It still went forward but it continued to go forward slowly. When it was given more and more throttle it just revved higher and higher but it didn't go any faster. The best way I can describe it is if you are driving a manual car and you have the clutch half way out, you'll go forward but not very fast, and no matter how much gas you give it it won't go any faster.
I shifted it into reverse, and it went into reverse, but again, not very fast at all, like it really isn't actually engaging, but just somehow sort of half way.
I took it out of the water and started it up in a trash can. The same problem occurs, even though I give it more and more throttle, it doesn't translate into more acelleration. When I was done with running it in the trash can the water was incredibly dirty with oil on the top of the water. I cleaned a bunch of old oil off the engine just a few days ago b/c I just bought it so it may be the remnants of that, but like I say it was really dirty. Also, if there was old caked oil on the engine, it must have leaked from somewhere.
Has anyone experienced similar problems? Could this be a lower unit issue? Is this a prop issue? I just don't get it. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you all so much.
Dan
First time posting here. I'm not much of a mechanic but I still know my way around. I just bought a boat with a 61 Evinrude Lark 40 HP motor on it. Here's the problem. I took it out yesterday and I had no real problems with it other than it seemed like it was revving too high the whole time. Today I took it out and I have this problem.
Background info: The shifting cable is bent so it shifts into forward no problem, but it has a problem shifting "backwards" into neutral or reverse, so I disconnected it and I was controlling the shifting manually.
When I started the motor it immediately went forward like it was in gear, but it went forward slowly. Then when I manually shifted into forward while at the same time having the driver shift the shifter in forward I didn't hear it "engage". It still went forward but it continued to go forward slowly. When it was given more and more throttle it just revved higher and higher but it didn't go any faster. The best way I can describe it is if you are driving a manual car and you have the clutch half way out, you'll go forward but not very fast, and no matter how much gas you give it it won't go any faster.
I shifted it into reverse, and it went into reverse, but again, not very fast at all, like it really isn't actually engaging, but just somehow sort of half way.
I took it out of the water and started it up in a trash can. The same problem occurs, even though I give it more and more throttle, it doesn't translate into more acelleration. When I was done with running it in the trash can the water was incredibly dirty with oil on the top of the water. I cleaned a bunch of old oil off the engine just a few days ago b/c I just bought it so it may be the remnants of that, but like I say it was really dirty. Also, if there was old caked oil on the engine, it must have leaked from somewhere.
Has anyone experienced similar problems? Could this be a lower unit issue? Is this a prop issue? I just don't get it. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you all so much.
Dan
