I have a 89 Johnson that has a complete overhaul which I have run two tanks of gas through at double mix. I filled the tank today with a 1 1/2 mix and after I ran it for a few minutes it sounded an alarm. The alarm was a short beep of about a second long with several minutes in between beeps. I...
I had the powerhead rebuilt two months ago ( 89 175 johnson ) and I'm still breaking it in. I have only ran one tank through with double oil and just started the second. I had every cylinder bored 20 over and all new bearings and seals replaced. The problem I'm having is that yesterday it was...
I'm posting this for a friend. He has a 1983 V-4 140 horse johnson that starts making a noise inside the motor and about half throttle. It started about three months ago when he changed the plugs. They are the correct champion plugs and they show no sign of hitting the pistons. The motor fouls...
The fuel pump had been disconected from the self oiler before I bought the boat. I had to rebuild the powerhead because all of the rings were stuck and #6 had broke rings. The fuel pump was surging taking in a lot of air, so I redone all of their so called plugging the lines by plugging the oil...
