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    73 50 hp johnson quit, now nothing. Help please

    regular head drain screw at the very bottom and the regular head screw about half way up for air.
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    73 50 hp johnson quit, now nothing. Help please

    no didn't hit anything. I'm going to swap lower units. The lower unit is good on the parts motor. That'll be another day though.. Thanks for your help.
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    73 50 hp johnson quit, now nothing. Help please

    I just changed the lower unit oil yesterday and it looked fine when it came out. not milky or shiny with steel parts.
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    73 50 hp johnson quit, now nothing. Help please

    It almost feels like something came unhooked in the lower unit. I have no idea, I'm not a mechanic and don't claim to be. I've never had a lower unit off. The shift lever in the top of the motor where the shift linkage hooks to just moves back and forth freely. There is no shifting at all it...
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    73 50 hp johnson quit, now nothing. Help please

    I'm pretty sure my gear box is bad(or whatever an outboard has). There is no differentiation between gears when i move the shifter arm manually. It just smoothly moves front to back. My parts motor has a clunk and a stopping point when i get into forward of reverse.
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    73 50 hp johnson quit, now nothing. Help please

    I'ts in my linkage, I just took my shift linkage off and moved the shifter manually and it is rolling over. Started it up, it ran, shifted correctly, I put everything back together and now it won't roll over again!!! grrrrr!!!
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    73 50 hp johnson quit, now nothing. Help please

    I jumped that wire and got nothing. I put my positive lead on the top small wire on the back of the solenoid and my negative wire on a ground and had my wife hit the key and I got 12.8 to my multimeter.
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    73 50 hp johnson quit, now nothing. Help please

    yes i do
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    73 50 hp johnson quit, now nothing. Help please

    I'm sorry, but I'm not really sure what you mean. I have a parts motor and I swapped out solenoids and it's still not starting. That doesn't mean that the solenoid is good on the parts motor though.
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    73 50 hp johnson quit, now nothing. Help please

    crossing the solenoid made it work.
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    73 50 hp johnson quit, now nothing. Help please

    I;'m not real certain how to bypass the solenoid without damaging something.
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    73 50 hp johnson quit, now nothing. Help please

    I can turn the flywheel. I don't think it overheated. It acts like the linkage is in gear but its not. Just absolutely no click or anything.
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    73 50 hp johnson quit, now nothing. Help please

    I have a 73 50hp Johnson outboard, and I was cruising along last night just fine and all of the sudden it spit and sputterd for a quick second and stalled. Now I have nothing. Won't even click when I hit the key. The electric choke does work but the motor won't even click. I've wiggled the...
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    What is the biggest motor my Starcraft will handle?

    Here it is.
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    What is the biggest motor my Starcraft will handle?

    I'm sorry I thought I had the length in there. 15ft
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    What is the biggest motor my Starcraft will handle?

    Hello, I have a 15 ft. 1972 Aluminum Starcraft with the open bow design. I'm not extactly sure of the model and I can't find a plate on it. It had what I assume was the original motor on it. A 50 hp Johnson. I've owned it for 3 years and the motor just went. The bottom cylinder is junk. My...
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    1973 Johnson 50hp need some advise please.

    Thank you all, sounds like I've got some work to do.
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    1973 Johnson 50hp need some advise please.

    Should the compression test be done with the motor warm or doesn’t it matter?
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    1973 Johnson 50hp need some advise please.

    Would the compression issue cause it to run intermittently? I agree those numbers aren't ideal, but seems to me that the compression problem would cause it to run poorly all the time.
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    1973 Johnson 50hp need some advise please.

    Hi, I have a 1973 Johnson 5 hp model # 50ESL73R. I've been having trouble with it lately. It will not idle correctly and won't troll down below about 4mph. It ran great up until about a month ago. It would troll at 2.5 and Idle great. Seems like I've lost a few mph on the top end also. I...
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