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I recently purchased a boat with 89 yamaha 225excel tested boat for a good 1/2 hour ran great no problems picked it up to cruise home and shortly into my trip it started to bog down and stall i tried turning it back over and it didn't turn over. After a few tries it started back up and ran fine for a bit.It bogged down and started back up two more times and on the third time wouldn't start back up.The motor would still turn over but didn't fire at all.Got tow back to a dock and changed fuel seporator drained carbs changed spark plugs still nothing.Had to put new bateries after killing those trieing to start for so long still nothing.The seller of boat came down said it wasn't cranking fast enough.Local boat mechanic came and did spark test and said it was getting a weak spark and said to get starting battery did that and still nothing.Checked cables going from battery to battery switch and found a place where the cables were split and bolted together and had lots of corosion and the cables were really soft and probably very old cleaned off conections and turned over still sounded weak.The shop is coming down in a couple days to do a load test at motor and talked about rebuilding carbs.I don't want to throw a bunch of money at this trieing to trouble shoot this.Any ideas of what this might be would be great.Somebody mentioned a bad stator could that be the issue. Thank you
I recently purchased a boat with 89 yamaha 225excel tested boat for a good 1/2 hour ran great no problems picked it up to cruise home and shortly into my trip it started to bog down and stall i tried turning it back over and it didn't turn over. After a few tries it started back up and ran fine for a bit.It bogged down and started back up two more times and on the third time wouldn't start back up.The motor would still turn over but didn't fire at all.Got tow back to a dock and changed fuel seporator drained carbs changed spark plugs still nothing.Had to put new bateries after killing those trieing to start for so long still nothing.The seller of boat came down said it wasn't cranking fast enough.Local boat mechanic came and did spark test and said it was getting a weak spark and said to get starting battery did that and still nothing.Checked cables going from battery to battery switch and found a place where the cables were split and bolted together and had lots of corosion and the cables were really soft and probably very old cleaned off conections and turned over still sounded weak.The shop is coming down in a couple days to do a load test at motor and talked about rebuilding carbs.I don't want to throw a bunch of money at this trieing to trouble shoot this.Any ideas of what this might be would be great.Somebody mentioned a bad stator could that be the issue. Thank you
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