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I bough this 67' 9.5 Johnson from a guy for a hair south of $200. It fires up and runs pretty decent, but smokes ALOT. It has a nice pee stream and shifts into gear pretty smoothly.
There are a few things I am not completely understanding with this engine.
1. oil on plugs. Does this mean bad...
So I have this little 12ft mirrocraft v-hull with a montgomery wards 7.5hp outboard motor on it. It's the k750 clinton essentially. I took her out for the maiden voyage last weekend and it ran OK at best. Under no load, the thing had no problem revving, but under load, it seemed it wasn?t able...