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I have a mid-eighties Evinrude 9.9 that ran and started fine until today. Spark is good and wet plugs indicate fuel. I pulled on it many times with and without choke and also without plugs to be sure she wasn't flooded.
My 1986 Merc 90 Horsepower engine is acting up. It ran great through 1/2 of yesterday until we got into heavy chop and bumpy water. It runs good anything over about 1000 RPM. At idle she dies and I have to rev her up hard and slam shift to get her to go from a start. It acts like it is running...
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I bought a 1985 SeaNymph SS-175 just over a week ago powered by a 1985 or 1986 Merc 90 HP inline 6 based on the serial number. It ran fine on the test run, although it was a bit hard to start from cold. I had read that motors have individual personalities related to starting, so I wasn't...
I recently bought a 17' cc with an 88 spl Johnson. Teleflex rotary steering seemed a little binding at the center the one time I test drove it. I was going to try to free it up today and the helm completely let go while I was rotating the wheel and trying to decide what I should do to free it up...
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First post. I have a fine little 28 that seems to want to run more on 1 cylinder than 2. It won't idle or run slow without stalling and occasionally will stay in 1 cylinder mode all the way to WOT for a minute or 2 until it clears. Naturally I suspect the ignition to be bad.
Unfortunately...
