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ok, i've been working on my boat lately and i've get everything down but the timeing?
what does this mean?
my boat cranks and runs forever on the hose but i took it to a boat shop and they said i need to get it timed????
how do i know if it's timed or not?
and
how do i do it?
and
does anyone...
i ran a compression test today and i got 130 in the top cylinder, 120 in the middle, and 87 in the bottom....
was at a boat shop and they said my motor wont run well like this.... said it will eventually just stall out on me and break down...
any ideas of what i can do to get the bottom...
ok, so i just bought me a boat from a private seller and it has a 70hp Evinrude motor on it... he told me it was a 1976ish motor but when he got it alot of the motor needed to be fixed and now it has a bunch of the 80 model parts in it.... (idk what the heck he was saying half the time, im not...