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Hey guys my 200 HP 1990 Evenrude is bogging down like right on the middle of the acceleration stroke, it fires right up, idles great and runs good at WOT but in the middle at ~2200 RPMs? it get sluggish and tries to die down, if I ?gun it? to an almost WOT position it will pick up and come out...
I posted this on a different forum w/o a reply can some one help...
Messing around with the ?link and sync? on my 200 HP Johnson I notice that my motor is hitting the Max Spark Advance around 2000 RPM, what I did, I got the timing light hooked up and notice that once the boat was on its way in...
200 HP 1991 Johnson, I trying to figure out why it smokes so much at idle, no VRO, mix 50:1, I understand it supposed to smoke, but this one leaves a smoke screen as it idles and I think it spits fuel/oil thru the exhaust as I can see rainbows in the water cause by of unburned fuel/oil...I...
JB at one time you stated the following:
* Rope start engines will usually give lower psi readings than your know-it-all neighbor claims are required. Same for big JohnnyRude V6s
I'm especially interested on the bolded part...
Why big johnnyrudes have low readings????
Also why the engine has to...
I installed a jack plate on my boat:rolleyes:, I have heard that there is a relation between the size of the plate (offset/pushback) to where the cavitation plate should sit now in relation to the V bottom of the boat anybody heard anything about that???:confused:
Guys I'm having this issue with my boat, it will not even reach 5000 RPMs:confused:, I currently have a 14-1/2 x 19 3 blade propeller on my 200 HP Johnson, I can only get to about 4700 RPMs and to ~30-35 MPH, the motor seems to have enough power left on it when is at WOT however it will not go...
My motor (1150 Merc Thunderbolt) dies when I put it on gear:confused:? I check ?Sync? and I got it to idle good, but as soon as I try to put it on gear it dies, did more and more checks and ended up discovering that #5 and #6 are not firing :eek:(they do have spark) but I know they are not...
