Begining of this boating season I replaced the plugs, and wires on this engine due to it missing and sputtering a bit from time to time. It didn't matter if the engine was cold or warm you just bumped the key and it would fire right up and you could take off no problems. It seemed as it was running rich and the fire sepressor was off I noticed the choke was closed still and when you would hold it open the engine would run well. So I back of the electric choke a bit to correct the problem. Apparently that wasn't the problem as much as the wires on the plugs were. One evening I had the engine cover off and notice the plug wires were jumping fire to the block so I knew they were bad. I month 1/2 later I'm ready to take it out. I'm now having to pump the throttle once or twice to get the engine to turn over. It will run for a second or too before it wants to stall or actully stalls unless I idle it up. After the engine warms a bit it would still do it but not as bad. Some times while trying to dock the boat at a pier using forward and reversing to menuever the boat to the dock it would want to stall as well. This morning I'm preparing to take it to the lake this afternoon. I put the muffs on the engine and went to start it. It did exactly as I describe above. I'm guess I got the choke out of adjustment. Whats the proper way to test the circuit and the adjustment of this choke? Shop manual 7 dosen't actully seem to explain this in very much detail. It's approx. 99 degrees outside so i'm not sure if the engine is even to warm to do this?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.