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    Johnson 50hp throttle linkage?

    Both cam rollers look good.
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    Johnson 50hp throttle linkage?

    Yeah I'm starting to wonder about the reeds, I have already pulled the carbs and cleaned them, all the jets looked pretty good to begin with and the clean out accomplished nothing. If I dissconect the sparkplug lead to the top cylinder the engine will idle on just the bottom cylinder just...
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    Johnson 50hp throttle linkage?

    Just running badly at idle, I cant set the linkages to the factory recomendations. Compression has been verified. I only visually tested spark, never used a spark tester before, guess I'll have to get one.
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    Johnson 50hp throttle linkage?

    Yep, measured C-C. I re-bastardized the whole thing and its now running exactly as badly as it was before I started messing with the linkage, so I guess thats a small win.
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    Johnson 50hp throttle linkage?

    I have a 2001 johnson 50hp that has been running like crap. Cleaned out the carbs, and did a bunch of the ususal checks with no improvement. Anyhow, in the trouble shooting process I got around to noticing my throttle linkage was way out of spec so I decided to fix that and see if it made any...
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