Hi,<br /><br />This weekend I put the boat in the water and my freshly rebuilt 1980 25 hp Evinrude on. The engine started fine and ran like clockwork, idled like a brand new engine. Took a few test spins and it pulled strongly and ran evenly for about 1 hour totally.<br />Then in the evening I went fishing with my oldest son and on the way out power decreased. Idling went down and now had some sneezing like it was lean, then it died completely and would not start again. Luckily we were not far away from home and could row back in 20 minutes.<br />The day after I took off the lid and found two anomalities...<br />Some of the screws that hold the exhaust side cover on the powerhead was coming out. Not enough to make it leak so I guess it could not be the problem. Also no sign of water on the plugs.<br />The fuel hose that goes from the pump to the carb had a kink just below the carb. I immediately thought I had found the problem, but it remained after I had straightened it out. Could that have caused any secondary problems?<br />Other observations...<br />- Fuel filter is clean.<br />- There is spark on both plugs although it was hard to se how strong it was in the daylight.<br />- Gas flows trough the pump and into the carb when primed, still no start, only the odd sneeze when the starter is pulled.<br />- Cooling is fine and the engine was not hot.<br />- Plugs look a bit wet and dark but that may come from the extra oil I have in this first tank of gas after the rebuild.<br />It has to be either fuel delivery or ignition related. Any suggestions on where to start looking?<br /><br />Thanks,<br />Bjorn
