Okay members and experts, here goes... This is my first boat (used) and it's pretty old. It's a 14.5' Caddo fishing hull with a 55hp Chrysler (magnapower/electronic ignition) model #559H9L serial #4981. I guess the first thing I need to know is what year is my engine?<br /><br />The next thing I need to know is... WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED???? Here's my delemna, I replaced the bilge pump, battery, cleaned out the old fuel, added fresh fuel and oil mixture, checked and replaced leaking fuel line, put on the muffs and fired her up. <br /><br />The idle was a little rough and the motor would sputter out and die. Me and a buddy adjusted the idle and got the boat to run at idle and at higher rpms, still a little rough though...<br /><br />At this point we decided it was time to test the old girl on the water. We dropped the boat in the lake, started her right up, parked the trailer and off we went. In the lake we didn't notice the rough idle/run as much. We ran out to a couple of spots and wet some hooks, no problems. Of course we had only run the engine for short amounts of time.<br /><br />We decided to head down to an old road bed and try some catfishing at the other end of the lake. We're moving along just fine (about 5-10 minutes) then all of a sudden the boat just died. We tried to start it back up but had no luck. Thank God for trolling motors!<br /><br />I pulled it home after trying several times at the lake to restart the engine. Got home, threw on the muffs and tried some more... nothin! Pulled the cover off the magnapower case and pulled one of the plugs (couldn't get on the other one yet). It appears to have good spark and clean (funny looking) plugs, also appears to be getting fuel. What am I missing?<br /><br />Thanks for any help!
As soon as I get this little boat going we're going to get back after them.