morbidphil0622
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Hello everybody I have an 85 evinrude 70 hp. Motor consists of 3 cylinders and is a 2 stroke. I have a weird problem. My wife and I have taken our newly purchased boat out for a test run on the lake (saltwater) and both times we have been stranded multiple times per outing. The boat will start and idle just perfect at the house and will fire right up usually when launching. Now the first time out we launched with no problems and cruised around the lake for about 10 minutes until we found a good fishing spot. upon trying to leave the boat would not start.
Now I am very unfarmilliar with boat motors so like the genius that i am I started fiddling around with a little red switch on the side of the unit until it started back up but when I would put it in forward the motor would just bog down and die. when I started the motor again she instantly fired up and went straight to WOT! The boat was still in neutral so I just shut the motor off. I adjusted the 2 cables on the side of the unit (once again not knowing what I was doing) and the motor started up but this time was instantly in gear at a slow idle and we were headed back to the boat launch..
I have a lot of questions being new to boats but I am pretty sure that I have some sort of fuel problem and im not too sure what the cables did but I should probably get them back to where they need to be and find out what they do when adjusted. If anybody has any input on this it would be greatly appreciated.
sorry about the long post I just wanted to be as descriptive as possible
Jason
Now I am very unfarmilliar with boat motors so like the genius that i am I started fiddling around with a little red switch on the side of the unit until it started back up but when I would put it in forward the motor would just bog down and die. when I started the motor again she instantly fired up and went straight to WOT! The boat was still in neutral so I just shut the motor off. I adjusted the 2 cables on the side of the unit (once again not knowing what I was doing) and the motor started up but this time was instantly in gear at a slow idle and we were headed back to the boat launch..
I have a lot of questions being new to boats but I am pretty sure that I have some sort of fuel problem and im not too sure what the cables did but I should probably get them back to where they need to be and find out what they do when adjusted. If anybody has any input on this it would be greatly appreciated.
sorry about the long post I just wanted to be as descriptive as possible
Jason
