Evinrude 15 / can you tell me anything about this motor?

[deezdrama]

Just bought my first boat that is powered by an outboard so Im completely new to this.

The boat is an 88 15' aluminum mod-v smoker craft bass catcher.
Came with a 15hp Evinrude that im assuming is from the same year?
The model number is not readable (anyone know it?)

Basically... I want to take the boat out on the nearby lake for a test run before I recarpet it and buy new seats and fishfinder.

Im not sure if I should do any preventive maintenance or check anything before I go out, Im assuming it would be smart to drop a garbage can of water under it and get the feel of it/ test it first.

The seller said it had new impeller and carb cleaned a couple years ago and that he had it out on the water early this year, said its been reliable and runs like a top.
The gas tank is half full... I assume I should dump it and make a fresh mix.

Again...this is my first outboard and not even quite sure how to operate it because the tiller handle I think has selections for starting it and maybe for putting it in gear? but the words are wore off.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

What should I do? Drop it in can of water, make sure its in nuetral, pump priming bulb, choke it and fire her up?

any breakdown of things to do/check would be lifesaving

thanks

 

[deezdrama]

cant get pics to upload

 

[deezdrama]

pics

 

[loiner1965]

personally i would use fresh fuel/oil mix
pump it through and pull choke out
twist thottle half way and give a good pull
then push choke it then pull to start.....if after 6 pull and no life then we start investigating

 

[deezdrama]

probably 2 of the dumbest questions you may of ever heard but here we go and dont laugh - ill catch on haha

Can I just unhook the gas tank and run down to the station and fill it up or is there regulations about that?

What octane? and my motor says 100/1 ratio ... does that sound right (someone told me 50/1)

I got the motor in water, heres a pic of the tiller control, i got the motor in neutral, the tiller shows arrows up and down (i assume thats the idle position for switching gears) then to the left of that the triangle comes to a small point (assuming thats for trolling?) Then to the right side of the 2 arrows the triangle gets wide and it shows a circle with an arrow.

The tiller throttle wont turn past the up/down area on the control.... im not sure where it needs to be to start it. The
throttle only turns very little on the left side of the up/down arrows in the picture.... barely any movement, if i try to turn it to the up/down arrows it wont go and feels like im gonna break something.


I think that was more than a couple stupid questions, sorry... I just want to know the function of everything before I proceed

 

[deezdrama]

ok im stupid, looking at the linkage I get it now, once in gear the throttle will turn more