Did a lake test yesterday:
Carb is functioning properly it appears when it comes to the secondary air valves, the choke and the bottom side throttle plates as well.
Good compression,
Its not a prop issue(previous owner has videos of it doing 45mph last summer with this prop)
I don't know how to find/get the drive ratio.
I recently acquired this 1986 Four Winns Horizon 190 with a Mercruiser 230 V8 in it.
The motor runs and sounds good at idle but it feels underpowered, only goes up to 3,000 rpms and 30mph at WOT under load.
I noticed the throttle plates/butterflies don't open at all when I move the throttle. I...
Thank you everyone for all the help!
The boat is correctly timed and running great and revving even better!
For those who may see this forum in the future:
I stored my boat over the winter and the distributor went bad, I then got a new distributor and installed it and the new distributor EST...
UPDATE:
Spark was achieved on the bench test with the old Ignition Module, new cap/rotor/etc and new coil/spark plug wire.
I have a tee time I have to get to but after I am done on the course I will be retiming the motor and reinstalling the distributor and coil and hoping for spark.
After messing around with the wiring and undoing some electrical tape and such I know have a reading a 1.3 ohms from main cable to primary side of coil which is still a little high I believe.
