BonairII
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Here's my setup....1980-ish BonairII boat with 15hp 1960 Seaking (Gale Buccaneer)
Bought the boat last week and have tried 2 motors(SeaKing and 1956 5.5hp Evinrude Jubilee) on it and both motors had the same problem. The motors would shake a bit and the gear levers would buck. The 5.5 would kick itself out of gear, the SeaKing lever rattled until I held it down.
I ran the 5.5 for about 20 minutes and ended up returning it to the seller, who was surprised cause it ran fine for him last year pushing a 14' aluminum boat.
I tried the SeaKing today and since it started acting like the other motor, I'm assuming that my boat/motor combos are causing some odd turbulence behind the boat that is causing the motor to want to kick out of gear/rattle. I find it hard to believe that I bought 2 motors with exact same probs (both sellers guaranteed their motors would perform well and had no issues).
I didn't run either boat faster than 5-10mph btw.
Second problem: I can't seem to get the SeaKing to rev up. It starts quickly idles nice, and runs at low speed pretty well, but when I try WOT.....it won't rev up. I opened the choke a tad and the motor started to come to life a bit, but nothing major. I'm guessing that it's being starved of fuel somehow.
Any/ALL help is appreciated!
Bought the boat last week and have tried 2 motors(SeaKing and 1956 5.5hp Evinrude Jubilee) on it and both motors had the same problem. The motors would shake a bit and the gear levers would buck. The 5.5 would kick itself out of gear, the SeaKing lever rattled until I held it down.
I ran the 5.5 for about 20 minutes and ended up returning it to the seller, who was surprised cause it ran fine for him last year pushing a 14' aluminum boat.
I tried the SeaKing today and since it started acting like the other motor, I'm assuming that my boat/motor combos are causing some odd turbulence behind the boat that is causing the motor to want to kick out of gear/rattle. I find it hard to believe that I bought 2 motors with exact same probs (both sellers guaranteed their motors would perform well and had no issues).
I didn't run either boat faster than 5-10mph btw.
Second problem: I can't seem to get the SeaKing to rev up. It starts quickly idles nice, and runs at low speed pretty well, but when I try WOT.....it won't rev up. I opened the choke a tad and the motor started to come to life a bit, but nothing major. I'm guessing that it's being starved of fuel somehow.
Any/ALL help is appreciated!
