What ever it is...it makes me very happy !!! The previous owner told me stories of his great fuel economy, but I just passed them off, ....but, seeing is believing....I will take it....
What ever it is...it makes me very happy !!! The previous owner told me stories of his great fuel economy, but I just passed them off, ....but, seeing is believing....I will take it....
curios about you route.how far is it one way?Are you going wide open where allowed or best crusing speed?
From my launch ramp to the river, part way at no wake zone. The rest is in the river with no speed limit. Total trip one way is about 12 miles.
To each his own. Personally, the slower I go the less I have to be watching forward, and the better I can see the bikini clad first mates on the gofasts that pass me by.
You are right there, never have I owned a better running, easy on gas outboard motor in all my 60 years of boating!! Smoothest idle ever, right down where you can almost hear each cylinder fire. I did find an airlock that I posted about that added almost two gallons of fuel to my original calculation. Just filled the tank again yesterday, after 4 fishing trips out on lake erie my total fuel fill was 12.5 gallons, not going to complain with a little over 6 hrs running time. Call it anything you want, but yes I am one happy boater !!!
I owned that exact motor
THats ok if your #s are right that motor will burn down soon enough. No way does it survive with that little fuel in it. We will see you in the Merc section soon enough.
Both previous owners made the same claim to its fuel effiency, the motor is a 92 and still has almost perfect compression. Cant say what the future will bring but it sure runs great now !!
Confused by this statement.
He is burning a gallon an hour of fuel at 3/4 throttle. Explain how that motor is not running lean. Don't know what's confusing about it.
No doubt the consumption is a mystery…but also no doubt that a modern motor like that just won’t run like it is if the fuelling isn’t right. Just simply won’t achieve much at all. The fuelling will either work or it won’t on modern engines.
Ok. Fair play. I was thinking of another post featuring a modern efi 4 stroke. Apologies
Apologies flying Scott. Was getting mixed up with another subject about a 4 stroke efi motor.
That engine goes back to about 1955
Yeah. I had a nightmare there. Totally off track thinking it was a new 4 stroke efi thing. Think I was getting confused with the other post about an efi and props earlier. The few cans of beer during the sail earlier, likely haven’t helped much either !
