Hello to all,
I have a question to ask you guys. I own a new to me 1991 Lowes model 202 Pontoon Boat or I guess it is a 20 foot Pontoon Boat with a 70 horsepower Johnson 1983 year model J70ELCTD. Anyway, I took the boat out today for the first time with the new to me Johnson 70 horsepower outboard and it ran good except the motor felt guttless that is it took somewhat of a delay to get up to 18 miles per hour at 5100 RPMs max wide open throttle. The prop on it currently has a 13 1/4 X 17 prop. I was wondering if I would do good to go with a 13 3/4 X 15 pitch since it would add more RPMs and possibly more speed maybe, not too sure. The 70 horsepower motor was on a trihull speed boat 17 inch Bonita boat when I bought it from the guy so I am thinking that the prop has maybe too much pitch or not enough pitch becuase I called a local marina in town and they said the pitch neds to come down to a 13 pitch. Basically the pontoon boats they sale have 11 or 13 pitch props on it. Let me know becuase I want to get out this weekend. Also I did have to adjust the timing on it and the idle becuase it was idling way to high at the time when I bought the motor and when I put it on my Pontoon boat. But the motor rasn flawlessly and I ran hard for about 1 hour at wide open throttle but not the entire hour. Let me know Bob
I have a question to ask you guys. I own a new to me 1991 Lowes model 202 Pontoon Boat or I guess it is a 20 foot Pontoon Boat with a 70 horsepower Johnson 1983 year model J70ELCTD. Anyway, I took the boat out today for the first time with the new to me Johnson 70 horsepower outboard and it ran good except the motor felt guttless that is it took somewhat of a delay to get up to 18 miles per hour at 5100 RPMs max wide open throttle. The prop on it currently has a 13 1/4 X 17 prop. I was wondering if I would do good to go with a 13 3/4 X 15 pitch since it would add more RPMs and possibly more speed maybe, not too sure. The 70 horsepower motor was on a trihull speed boat 17 inch Bonita boat when I bought it from the guy so I am thinking that the prop has maybe too much pitch or not enough pitch becuase I called a local marina in town and they said the pitch neds to come down to a 13 pitch. Basically the pontoon boats they sale have 11 or 13 pitch props on it. Let me know becuase I want to get out this weekend. Also I did have to adjust the timing on it and the idle becuase it was idling way to high at the time when I bought the motor and when I put it on my Pontoon boat. But the motor rasn flawlessly and I ran hard for about 1 hour at wide open throttle but not the entire hour. Let me know Bob
