I have unwelcome visitors in my boat. About 4 or 5 stray cats have figured out how to jump in under a blue tarp and are using my boat as a winter home. I have tried moth balls and a daily spray from petco to get rid of cats but they still are living in the boat. I'm sure some of you have...
I recently did a carb rebuild for loss of power problem and much thanks to all of those who helped. I was viewing some problems another member with an old 50 hp motor wrote in about and one of the suggestions made was to check the stator for leaking matter on the block. Well the stator is or...
I'm quessing maybe my coils are breaking down. My motor started a few times and ran well enough for me to travel 5 miles. i fished for about 5-10 minutes and tried to start the motor. I had to tilt it to get it started. Then the motor ran well once I got it started five miles back. I had...
I am puzzled. I have a 1972 65hp johnson. I took it out and it started at the dock. Then ran it for about 5 miles and it took the gas well. After 5 mile run I had difficulty starting the motor. Then when it finally started tilting the motor, it bogged out in gear and woulodn't take any load...
Once in a while when i turn my ignition key, after I let go of the key my starter keeps turning. The is a new problem that my old motor did not have so I don't think the ignition or control is the problem but who knows. It appears to be something with the new 72 65 hp motor. Any ideas?
I picked up a 65 hp moter and combined my lower unit with the motor i picked up. I had it out for 3 hours and it rand great but lost power in the last hour. I had a bulb poroblem that turned out being a brand new defective fitting on the tank end. I took the carbs apart and they looked real...
I bought a 1972 65 hp johnson on ebay last week and put my 65 hp evinrude lower unit on it. The motor looked pretty clean and was running very well for about two hours . It idled great and had plenty of power. Then I noticed a slight loss in power but it was rectified by throttling. On the...
I destroyed my power head and bought a 1971 johnson 65 hp motor with a bad lower unit hoping to swap my good lower unit on. -I have a 72 65 hp evinrude. I beleive both motors are hydroelectric shift? Are the lower units interchangeable. In addition, can i just slide the 71 Jonhson motor on...
I had screwed up one of the top holes on my block for the exhaust manifold on a 72 65hp evinrude. I broke some hard steel in the hole drilling out a broken easy out and did a number on the hole. I couldn't use a heli coil because the hole was wider now than the 1/4 20 helicoil. A guy at west...
My local hardware store salesmen told me a helicoil on an aluminum block may not seal well. Thats why I wanted some advice from someone who has repaired on of these damaged manifold bolt holes.
I broke one bolt removing the bolts from my exhaust manifold cover on my 72 65 hp truimph evinrude. After drilling a 1/8 hole in the bolt I broke a hardened steel easy out in the hole. Trying to remove that I broke some bits and in the process of getting all the hardened steel out of the hole...
I was getting water in my #2 cylinder and had good compression. I saw a post on this for another 1972 65hp evinrude triumph and someone suggested checking the exhaust manifold as a possible back leak problem. I did a number on the exhaust manifold while drilling out frozen bolts and need to...
