Seems the outboard idles a bit lean. If I drive the boat onto the trailer and just let it idle in gear for about 1 minute it will sneeze and die. If I idle in gear into a current or wind it will sneeze after a few minutes. As long as I just nudge the throttle a very small amount all is...
stainless steel protester prop on 175 HP mercury
It has a crack at the base of the blade near the manufactures weld. I have been watching it grow.
Can this be fixed or should I call it a dead horse?
1986 175hp compression is perfect. just rebuilt carbs and new glass reeds.
Thing runs perfectly.
how long can this old beast last?
Do the piston rings and cylinders wear out or do they just keep going until somthing causes them to blow or burn up like running with trashed impeller...
86 175hp
got her running real nice with new reeds and carb rebuild
Idle is sometimes perfect. Other times it is kind of crappy. In gear lugging in a no wake it can start to spudder and cough.
I have to give it just a bit of throttle and then it clears out for a bit but goes right back to its...
My 175 blackmax was running pretty good to begin with but now I am amazed with it.
I replaced reed valves with Chris Carson glass reeds. Laped the reed blocks with fine sand paper a flat piece of glass and some oil. Took apart the carbs and soaked them in carb cleaner. blew out all the...
I think I need to check and clear all water passages on my outboard.
What will I need to take apart to check all water passages? So far all that I can see in the poppet area, thermostats and else where is super clean, no mud sand or corrosion of any type. Freshwater motor only. It dose see...
Re: 87 blackmax poppet valve adjustment?
new gaskets and diaphram on the way. However the diaphram appears good with not holes and was replaced not too long ago. The water has been weeping out of the hole before and after replacment.
when the valve opens where dose it allow the water to...
175 hp blackmax.
every so often when the boat comes off pad from a short run the temprature gage falls to cold and engine idle becomes rough. Engine sneezes a time or two and may even die. It acts exactly like it dose on the fisrt start of the day in the cold morning. Warm the engine back...
175HP blackmax sneezing and stalling at idle. Temp gage is reading much lower than it has in the past. Its acting just like it dose on fisrt cold start in the morning. Never really warming up.
Stuck thermostats comes to my mind. Anything else that would cause this condition?
the oil alarm on my outboard has been beeping the last few trips out at certian times.
At first it would beep a few times when I would hit a wake. Then it started beeping when the boat would come offf plane. Commmon sense told me it was the oil sloshing around in the oil tank on top of the...
