I bought a 91 40HP Johnson in the fall of last year and it ran great. I winterized it by fogging the engine but was unable to change the lower gear oil as I couldn't get the top drain screw out. I did open the bottom one to ensure there was no water in the bottom. I went to launch it yesterday...
Hi, I just bought a 91 Johnson 40hp VRO and have 2 questions.
1. It's oil injected, how do I know if the oil stops pumping? (other than the motor exploding) I there an alarm?
2. I need to level the motor, I found the bolt to do this, see photo below. I unscrewed both nuts (one on each side)...
I posted earlier about not being able to go over a certain speed without the motor over revving and sounding like I was caught on weeds. The general concensous was that the prop was spun. I followed the instructions and marked the prop in relation to the shaft, ran it a few times and checked...
My 30HP Johnson has been running great for almost 2 years thanks to help from this board. Now more problems. The motor starts good, it idles fine, slow and medium speed are good, but when I start to go fast the motor all the sudden revs high like it's stuck on weeds. I've done everything I can...
I just bought this motor and notice when pumping the bulb, there's gas spurting out a little hole in the back of the fuel pump. I took the fuel pump apart and it looks like the hole is intentional. All the springs and seals seam to be there. When the motors running on the lake there's a pulse of...
I just bought a 1978 55hp Johnson, going to put it on my boat this weekend, but I've noticed that it doesn't have the typical clamping system that my other motor has to lock it to the transom. It can still rest on the top of the transom and there is a small lip to keep it from sliding off. It...
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I bought a '61 Evinrude Lark 3 40HP last year. It ran great when we got it, then in the fall it would only go about half speed at full throttle. I changed out one of the coils thinking that was the cause but when I took it out it did the same thing. This year I took the flywheel back off and...
I lost my prop this weekend, luckly I was just pulling into the marina. I need a recommendation on what size of prop to get. I've got an '85 30HP Johnson on a 20' Pontoon boat.
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I bought a '61 Evinrude Lark 3 40HP a couple of weeks ago. It hadn't been run since last year. I put it in the lake and it ran perfect. I've had it out 3 or 4 times since and it was pretty fast. I accidently forgot to check the gas gauge last week and ran it out of gas. Since then the boat only...
Can anyone tell me what year my Chrysler motor is? The model # is 4542. It's a 45 HP. I've attached some photo's. I need to know so I can get a carb kit. Also in the photo of the carb, it appears that the slow speed needle is missing, is this right?
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I don't want to complain because my motor has been working great the past couple of weeks thanks in part to help I received on this board, but my wife informed me this weekend that our motor is really loud. It's an '85 30HP Johnson long shaft. When in idle you have to yell at the person next to...
My brother in law just got a 197? Evinrude 33hp. We didn't get a chance to start it on the weekend but I did show him how to adjust the high and low speed jets. I noticed when I was looking at the engine there was black sticky stuff that looked like it had leaked out of one of the screws. It...
I'm back. I rebuilt my card a couple of weeks ago. http://forums.iboats.com/showthread.php?t=254980
Anyway, I had 3 good runs with the boat and it's acting up again. Saturday I ran it for 10 minutes, had it turned off for 5 min., then had a hard time getting it going. I had to press on the...
I'm rebuilding my carb. When i took off the bowl there was a cap floating in the bottom of the bowl. I'm assuming this was probably the cause of my headaches. I just have a couple of questions:
1. I have my carb sitting in carb cleaner over night. How do I get the carb cleaner off tomorrow...
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I put my boat in the water a couple of weeks ago and it ran not bad. It kept stalling when I would open it up, which I thought I fixed by adjusting a few knobs. This weekend was a different story. I first had a hard time keeping it idling at the dock without it stalling. When I finally did...
