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I have a nieghbor that is having trouble with his Evinrude 225 2 stroke, I don't know what year model it is yet. He says he's only geting 3800 rpm's out of it. I have a compression gauge and am going to help him check compression and spark this evening. Aside from the standard, all cylnders...
I live on a canal and just pull my boat out of the water onto the floating dock. Sometimes I can go out two or three days in row other times the boat will sit on the dock for a couple of weeks. Is it best to disconnect the fuel and run it out (knowing that there will still be alittle in the...
I have a new to me 1997 15hp. I just worked on the carb and the motor is running fine but I "feel" like it is burning more fuel than it should. Again I have no experince with this motor to compare fuel burm it's just a "feeling". Now that said, I have the idle screw out 4.5 turns which yeilded...
Just bought a little boat with this motor and right away had trouble getting to full power. Thought Carb was varished so I rebuilt and that didn't help. Discover Power Pack was bad and only one cyclinder was firing. Fixed that, running strong on top end.
However, when I rebuilt the carb I...
