SteveDavis
Seaman
- Joined
- Jun 15, 2007
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- 74
I am looking for some direction and am hoping that some of you can help. I bought my 1986 Crestliner Nordic from my brother-in-law last year, he bought it from my father about 8yrs ago. My dad bought it new from a dealer in Minn. So it is a family machine and I would like to bring it back. It has a 175hp GM engine with an OMC Cobra outdrive. Here is my concerns.
I was and still am somewhat having problems with hesitaion when accelerating. So I cleaned the carb, finding that it was covered in black crud, maybe the sound dampning material. After cleaning it seemed to help a lot and seemed to stop the problem, or atleast for a while.
Yesterday, I took out my boat and was having problems off and on when going from nuetral to forward. When I shifted to forward the engine began to sputter and almost hiss a little then die out while it shook. That would take a 5 seconds or so. Being a few miles from the boat ramp I decided to try it in reverse (just hoping it would run that way), and it worked perfect. Hmmmmmm. So I then tossed it into forward and it ran like a charm. Go figure. This happend off and on during the day. This is my biggest concern, but I do have a few others.
One is I am having a little trouble shifting. It does not shift hard or make any loud noises, but just a little tought to shift.
Lastly, the boat seems to pull to the left when driving.
If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it. I am new at this and can't wait to show the Walleye's on Rainy lake what I got this summer! THX.
I was and still am somewhat having problems with hesitaion when accelerating. So I cleaned the carb, finding that it was covered in black crud, maybe the sound dampning material. After cleaning it seemed to help a lot and seemed to stop the problem, or atleast for a while.
Yesterday, I took out my boat and was having problems off and on when going from nuetral to forward. When I shifted to forward the engine began to sputter and almost hiss a little then die out while it shook. That would take a 5 seconds or so. Being a few miles from the boat ramp I decided to try it in reverse (just hoping it would run that way), and it worked perfect. Hmmmmmm. So I then tossed it into forward and it ran like a charm. Go figure. This happend off and on during the day. This is my biggest concern, but I do have a few others.
One is I am having a little trouble shifting. It does not shift hard or make any loud noises, but just a little tought to shift.
Lastly, the boat seems to pull to the left when driving.
If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it. I am new at this and can't wait to show the Walleye's on Rainy lake what I got this summer! THX.
