I recently bought a 1968 steury v-bottom boat for $125. Installed new carpet for $100. Built some plywood seats until I can budget in the $175 seats I want. New $80 battery 845 CCA, new $40 spare tire which I will be buying two more for the trailer in time. All in all, decent boat for the nearly $500 I'll put into it. The motor is a 1979 evinrude outboard 75 horse.
Takes awhile to start. I have to pull the metal tab up, assuming it's a choke about half way to a 'sweet spot'. Finally starts, let it sit there, drop the tab back to it's normal sitting position, dies. To keep it running is a two-person job, one messing with the key/choke and me back at the engine messing with the throttle and choke.
Finally get it running and warmed up, revs up high, sounds powerful, but won't idle right, even after adjusting the idle screw. I'll mess around with the metal tab enough to get the rpm's high enough to quickly shove it down and put the motor in gear. It'll die a dozen times before it'll finally have enough rpm's to remain running in gear. Revs up pretty high in gear. goes back to idling okay, but not well, enough to put it in reverse and operate.
So i got enough courage to take it out on the water like this. repeated all these steps and finally got it moving forward, but there was no power what so ever. went about 3 miles per hour at half-throttle. full/wide open throttle, it would give a "1 second jolt" like it wanted to take off, but then quickly backed off to the 3 mph status.
after messing around it it, i had my girlfriend take the wheel as i went back to the engine and messed with the choke and throttle. It would only start up when the choke was on. giving it half the metal tab (choke) and releasing it quick to put into gear. it wouldn't start up at all with the choke off.
but on water, i could mess with the choke and throttle, putting the choke off and manually pressing the throttle to make it get about to 15 mph. but wide open throttle it bogged down.
I'm going to take apart the 3 carbs and clean them. it sat for 3 years. wouldn't hurt and could possibly fix the problem. I've seen people mention the prop or bearing. could this be a problem?
all 3 cylinders are getting spark. 50:1 fuel ratio.
Thanks! Drew
Takes awhile to start. I have to pull the metal tab up, assuming it's a choke about half way to a 'sweet spot'. Finally starts, let it sit there, drop the tab back to it's normal sitting position, dies. To keep it running is a two-person job, one messing with the key/choke and me back at the engine messing with the throttle and choke.
Finally get it running and warmed up, revs up high, sounds powerful, but won't idle right, even after adjusting the idle screw. I'll mess around with the metal tab enough to get the rpm's high enough to quickly shove it down and put the motor in gear. It'll die a dozen times before it'll finally have enough rpm's to remain running in gear. Revs up pretty high in gear. goes back to idling okay, but not well, enough to put it in reverse and operate.
So i got enough courage to take it out on the water like this. repeated all these steps and finally got it moving forward, but there was no power what so ever. went about 3 miles per hour at half-throttle. full/wide open throttle, it would give a "1 second jolt" like it wanted to take off, but then quickly backed off to the 3 mph status.
after messing around it it, i had my girlfriend take the wheel as i went back to the engine and messed with the choke and throttle. It would only start up when the choke was on. giving it half the metal tab (choke) and releasing it quick to put into gear. it wouldn't start up at all with the choke off.
but on water, i could mess with the choke and throttle, putting the choke off and manually pressing the throttle to make it get about to 15 mph. but wide open throttle it bogged down.
I'm going to take apart the 3 carbs and clean them. it sat for 3 years. wouldn't hurt and could possibly fix the problem. I've seen people mention the prop or bearing. could this be a problem?
all 3 cylinders are getting spark. 50:1 fuel ratio.
Thanks! Drew
