I have recently experiencing problems with my pontoon (24' with 115 Johnson). Since I am a first year boat owner, I am still in the learning phase of everything. I have been experiencing a slight loss of power as well as hard starts after motor has been ran a while & is restarted. I was also concerned with the "lack" of speed I was getting. Now I understand that it is a pontoon boat, but from other similar setups on the forum, I should be able to get more than 16mph @ WOT (5200 rpm).
I decided to take the boat in & have it looked at. Dealer called & said that the #1 cylinder tested at 18% on the leakdown test (while all the others tested fine). He said that this would be a result of the loss of my topend power & a rebuild would be $4500! I sure don't have that kind of money to spend right now, so I was just curious to see if there were any other feasible options? Also wanted to check with the members here to see if what I am being told by the dealer is correct? What if I just continued running the motor with the 1 bad cylinder? Sorry for the dumb questions since I am not a mechanic.
I decided to take the boat in & have it looked at. Dealer called & said that the #1 cylinder tested at 18% on the leakdown test (while all the others tested fine). He said that this would be a result of the loss of my topend power & a rebuild would be $4500! I sure don't have that kind of money to spend right now, so I was just curious to see if there were any other feasible options? Also wanted to check with the members here to see if what I am being told by the dealer is correct? What if I just continued running the motor with the 1 bad cylinder? Sorry for the dumb questions since I am not a mechanic.
