Recent content by chopperguy

Trying to help a buddy with this one. Looking for a place to start. He has rebuilt the carbs, replaced fuel lines and bulb. Runs good at wot, but very slow acceleration (bogging ) and very rough idle. Stalls alot at low rpm. Thanks.

Any suggestions for repowering my 22 foot Hurricane. I see Yamaha is very popular these days. Four stroke definitely. What about HP for the size hull? I don't need to fly, but I don't want a smaller outboard straining. Currently I have a 93 115hp Evinrude. For an old outboard it has lots of...

Been through a lot with this outboard. I'm about ready to give up. Has brand new ignition system including stator,power pack, regulator and plug wirers. Piston broke off in #1 cylinder. During the repair they put in new piston and all rings replaced because of bad carbon build up. Carbs are...

Need help again with this old crossflow outboard. I am getting an occasional pop from the exhaust only below 1500 rpm with a puff of smoke. Runs great at WOT never skips a beat. The pop only started after I got the O/B back from a powerhead repair. Here's what has been done so far. New piston...

Just got this thing back from a partial rebuild. Replaced bad Piston and broken rings. Also replace 3 other piston rings because they were badly carboned. Mechanic took me on the lake with it. Ran great, about a 20 minute ride. Took the the boat home proceeded to flush the motor. Now I am...

So, after replacing almost all ignition components she was running great until Sunday. During a 12 mile trip home on the ICW at 4500 RPM, she suddenly droped RPMs by 500. I limped the thing home. She was shuttering every so often like a. Miss fire. Got her out of the water. Check the plugs...

I need help figuring out why this O/B starts hard when cold. It fires runs a couple seconds and quits. Repeat this 4 times then it finally stays running. Once hot it starts fine. I recently purchased it, but here's what I know: Compression all 4 cyl. within 5 PSI. Mid 90's (maybe low but...

Is there anyway to adjust the OMC trim indicator on a 1993 Evinrude 115? When O/B is level the indicator says it's all the way down. Or is the sending unit bad. When I move the lever on the O/B the gauge needle goes up and down so it does work. Thanks.

Hey Guys I need some ignition help. I've had a few issues with this outboard losing spark on all cylinders on a few occassions. Got towed home and then it started right up. I began troubleshooting the ignition system based on several online references. DVA readings showed 295 volts both legs...

I've had this engine for over a year and take it out atleast once a week. It runs like a champ. Recently I noticed a scraping noise coming from the vicinity of the flywheel. There was a similar post to this one from 2004, but the guy never said whether he resolved the problem. Anyway, while...

My 1998 Honda 40 4Stroke has intemittant flow from the tell-tale, but never overheats. When running at full rpm it will have a nice steady stream then all the sudden it drops to a trickle. I just replaced the water pump, but haven't gotten into the thermostat yet. The cooling jacket cover on...

I recently started running ethanol fuel in my 2000 Johnson 130 V4. The Non-ethanol just got too expensive. I'm using startron additive to stop separation. The only difference I see is now it hesitates on acceleration. This usually only happens after I've been idling for a few minutes...

A friend of mine says a atleast one of these plugs looks lean. The last thing I want to do is destroy a cylinder. I ran into an issue a little while back were I was trying adjust the carbs (big mistake) and I screwed it up to where it would not run. So I set the idle mixtures to 2 turns out...

Does anyone know the intial idle mixture settings for a J130PLSSS? Also, which way to turn for rich and lean. Thanks.

Re: Head gasket question 2000 J130PLSSS Head was not flat ( no suprise it's aluminum). Low spots were in between the cylinders. Sanded it out best I could. Cylinder block mating surface has some mild corrosion (see pic), cleaned as best I could didn't want to remove too much material. So...