I'm trying to buy a boat with a 97 115 vro johnny<br />went to lake and it started right up in a cloud of smoke. Owner said he had not winterized and did not know he was supposed to but he did say he had stabilized the fuel in it but I wonder. it started idling poorly then died several times. on the restart it would always put out lots of smoke as a matter of fact he said he was selling it because his wife didn't like the smoke, I don't blame her. The prime bulb would not get or stay hard. It was pumping fuel but if it did get more solid it would loose it right away. Anyway ran the boat in the lake rpm's were down 1k@4k from what owner said it should be doing. Motor was rough and gutless but did not smoke once we were underway. It did feel like it was missing a little even at rpm. Got back to dock thank God and started to go out again. would not start..lots of oil in water, owner tried starting fluid in motor which I told him was a bad idea but the fact that he had a can of it in the boat told me he was no stranger to this problem..Anyway we raised the motor and black oil came from several places, a large pool of it. Thought we'd get arrested if we got caught putting that much oil in the lake. <br />It was thin and seemed mixed with fuel rather than lower unit grease. we had put ten gallons of fresh fuel in with what I thought was a few gallons of one year old gas now find out it could have been 2 years old as the motor smelled like bad gas when it did run. The prime bulb still would not pump up properly and the owner told me it was a new bulb and we checked the direction of flow and it was correct. never did get it started again..Told him I wouldn't buy it till we figured it out. Shame too cause its a Lund 1850 Tyee beautiful boat. So what's up any ideas..
