wjteegarden
Cadet
- Joined
- Jul 10, 2005
- Messages
- 6
OK, so I bought a '58 Gale Buccaneer off eBay, got a great deal. Check the fuel fitting ??? call seller... NOT a pressure system (coulda saved the $50 he charged me for a pressure tank!) but equipped with a fuel pump (YAY!) Put the motor on the boat (14 ft Starcraft, rated to 20hp, pushing it a little! I know, I know...) row to the middle of the lake, then spend 45 minutes twiddling with the (unmarked!) mixture knobs and yanking the cord until I get it running. Determine the big/bottom knob is Fast mixture, left=rich, right=lean and top/small knob is Slow mixture (same) so now I'm King O' the World cruising around (careful! full throttle makes it porpoise something awful!) but the mixture knob keeps moving back toward rich and killing my power. Oh, and BTW my big butt plus that huge Gale on the back of a 14ft. car-topper means only the back 7ft. of hull is actually touching the water, so I can't even slide forward to the middle bench without losing the mixture setting.<br /><br />I'm automotive, not outboardish, so someone please explain to me why OMC ***HAD*** to put the mixture settings where one could twiddle them and the vibration could reset them??? Is there a way to stiffen up the knob action, or make it a click/detent thing to keep them from self-unadjusting?<br /><br />Also, am I running too much stoosh and in danger of going down stern-first? Any plane/angle adjustment to help keep the bow down?