I've been watching the forums here and am pretty impressed with the quality of people and information. Kudos to you all!<br /><br />I recently acquired a 2000 Fishmaster Travis Edition with a 2000 90HP Johnson J90PLSSE Outboard. This rig was a gift from my brother.<br /><br />It ran great for the first 2 months that I had it. First problem I had was that the shift linkage came apart under the carb pack/intake silencer and it stuck in forward. Of course, it didn't actually stick in drive until I was at the boat ramp/courtesy dock. I fixewd it without much hassle. Both the retaining pin and end clamp came loose.<br /><br />It ran great again until last weekend. I got it in the water and cranked up. After the warmup period it began to miss randomly until I got it over about 3000rpm. 3000-5000 it ran pretty good.<br /><br />This week I figured out which cylinder was causing the problem by disconnecting one plug lead at a time. It was the port side bottom cylinder (I don't have a book so I don't know what cylinder number that is). It coughs/sneezes pretty hard out the exhaust. I swapped plugs and got no change. I compression tested all four cylinders. The 3 good cylinders were about 130psi and within a few psi of each other. The coughing cylinder was about 75psi. I pulled the head off and found the combustion chamber dish was pretty beat up. The cylinder walls looked great, except by one of the ports (the one towards the middle and bottom of the motor with the little orifice right above it)was missing a chunk from the top of the port (the top means towards the head) almost up to the orifice. The piston was beat on the crown and the part of the piston that aligns with the messed up port is missing a same sized chunk from the crown down to the top ring.<br /><br />I guess it needs a new block, pistons, rings, bearings, and seals. Any other way to repair it? Any idea on the cost?<br /><br />Thanks in advance for your opinions.<br /><br />Jody