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    What a waste of Bandwith!!! Hmm JB maybe it's not us??

    Ancient Mariner <br />Member # 1031 <br /><br /> posted 11-11-2005 08:57 PM <br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />What a waste of bandwidth.<br /><br />--------------------<br />Red sky at night. . .<br />JB<br /><br...
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    Good Ol' USPS tryin to stick me for more money

    I have been having a very un-pleasent experience with the united States Postal Service... <br /><br />Sold an item on ebay, that needed to be shipped overseas. Thought to myself I will try the USPS click n ship to pay for it so all I had to do was drop it off at the post office..yeah right...
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    Boat Holidays.......

    As long as were being dorks....<br /><br />
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    Choice of motors, opinions needed, Project boat/projectmotor

    I'm lookin to build a sport hydro in the future and thought I would look into a few motors. The plans for the boat are from the 60's. I've been lookin for one with HP range of 35-60. I found a few and am wondering what everyone thinks...<br /><br />Year unknown 35hp Sea King-missing spark on...
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    Can carbon build-up cause WOT surging???

    Don't know if this should be here or somewhere else... and I'm sure it will be moved if it don't belong :D <br /><br />I just got back from my second choice Johnson/Evinrude shop and we got to talkin about what my motor is doing... Surging at WOT... This is not to fix the surging I just...
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    $200 Truck, Bad starter, self lowering fuel tank, Really a funny story

    So about a month ago I picked up my next project. A $200 1975 Chevy 3/4 ton truck from my wifes boss. A day before that the guy across the street comes home with some ol' beater... Everynight at about 1:30am I'd hear the beater start up. I Thought man he leaves at weird hours of the night...
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    One cylinder running lean... Link sync pics.. 70 evinrude 115

    This bites...First off.. After all the other stuff thats been done just got done with head gaskets..<br />Compression 115 range all cylinders<br />Cylinder #3 running lean, engine surges severly at WOT and eventually drops back to idle speed. If I bring it back to idle for a minute or two and...
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    Clearly getting water into #2 Cylinder, Replacing head gaskets but what else??

    1970 Evinrude 115...AGAIN<br /> Had some probs with overheatin the last time out(NEVER died on it's own because of heat) When bringing throttle up installed pisser would loose pressure. let cool.. Idled back to dock not overheating it (per hot lamp and pisser) Took a look at LU and found...
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    4 tight spark plugs....one loosens up...

    Everything was goin good.... Took the 70 115 evinrude back out last night and for the most part things were great until....<br /><br /> towards the end... after maybe 6-7 stops and restarts I noticed it had not really a surge and not really a mis<br /><br />Thought it was a fuel supply issue...
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    Very helpful man gets wet and a bump on the head

    So after a good day at the lake we decide it's time to load up the boat and head home. It was about 5pm or so and the single ramp was gettin busy... both loading and unloading. There was a group of people that had three boats in the water... and a bunch of people at the dock waiting there...
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    1970 115 evinrude... THANK YOU everyone that has helped

    Just thought I would update a bit on my motor<br />For those that don't know I bought this boat, trailer, and motor with unknown history and fighting battle after battle to get her goin again. This is what has been done to the motor<br />Resealed LU and changed fluid, Changed Distributor(2)...
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    At Wits end with this one...think it's shop time...For the 70' 115

    OK...Last week I took the boat out... Finally got it to run WOT until it just died. Thought it was a sheard key but find out it is a rotor issue. (tab on rotor was broke so it wasn't keeping time) <br />Another thing I had a prob with is cavition or ventilation (not sure which one)with the...
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    Help finding prop for 1970 115

    Could someone please let me know where I can find Props for a 1970 115 evinrude.... Any help would be great.... thanks in advance
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    The list goes on and on and on .......Motor Height issue again?

    Ok... so per this board I raised the engine... went up one notch and the water issues I once had pouring in the boat greatly decreased, but thought I would bring it up to the bottom of the boat as told.... So I raised it up.. It now sits level with bottom of boat.. But heres what I...
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    Just curious about rotor... 1970 115

    I've done alot of looking at this engine recently and one thing has got me confused.... How in the heck does the rotor really work in this motor... I know what it does and how it does it but a rotor turns.. and in this one what keeps it from stopping?<br /><br />Looked in manual and no say...
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    Exhaust leak

    Along with the other problems my 1970 evinrude 115 has I have discovered I do have an exhuast leak into the cowl. When I decarbed the engine last night I found alot of smoke comming up through the seal to the exhaust housing. Should I see if bolts are just loose or do I tear her completely...
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    Light a match and watch it burn? PLEASE help... at a lose and it grew on me

    The ongoing sagga continues.... Day in and day out it is something else...something new... but no matter what I do it leads me in another direction... Unfortanatly for me the damn thing has grown on me and as much as I want to burn the SOB I just can't get that match in the carb...<br /><br...
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    Carb Problems 1970 115hp......

    1970 evinrude 115 <br /><br />Had a list of probs with this thing.. Other post:<br />Boat out for first time in my hand many problems<br /><br />Got her to run but now I notice that cylinder 4 is floodin out. Checked plug good spark<br /> smoke and hiccup from the throat of carb<br /><br...
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    HOT HORN

    Ok... since she's running right(as far as I know) and I want to take her to the lake today thought I would question the hot horn.... so I grounded her out and nothing.... no light horn nothing. Where do I start in the control box or on the engine??
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    Fuel additives

    Kinda goes along with my other post "boat out for first time yaddi yaddi yaddi..<br /><br />When I was buying my LU oil the shop guy was telling my about an fuel additive called 2x4for johnson and evinrudes... how it helps clean carbs and such... was he trying to get an extra $6 outta me or...
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