hi, today I went out to get my boat ready for spring. I started to tilt the engine up and it went about a foot and just stopped. got nothing but relays clicking. I jumped the tilt motor with jumper cables and it works fine the engine tilts up and down.so I know the tilt motor is good. I replaced...
I never had a rpm issue before until yesterday. engine starts fine and idles ok and revs up to 3500 rpms with no issues,but around 3500 rpms its breaks up and the check engine light sounds and comes on. I shut the engine off and check engine light goes off and stays off and it starts up fine and...
I asked my 12 year old son to turn the boat off the other day and I guess he didnt turn it all the way. it was left on for two days.today I go to start it and I have no power. I put the charger on the batteries and it came up charged. took out batteries and tested them and both are charged...
hi guys I'm still having the stall issue when I put the engine back into idle from say from 1,200 rpms to idle . I checked all the sensors and all is well. today I really went over the engine and found two things.one the bottom starboard sparkplug does not have the heavy carbon as the other...
hi guys the engine starts and runs from idle to wot fine with no misses or anything. problem I'm having is if I give it gas from idle and built rpms and put it back into idle right away it stalls. if I put it back to idle slowly it almost stalls but gains rpms and goes back to idle. I did notice...
I'm not having any running issues with this engine ,but everytime I tilt it up oil leaks out into the cowing. not a lot but it will run out of the cowing down the engine if I tilt it up a few times. I looked online and most seem to say that this is common with these engines,but I find it hard to...
ok so I bought this engine on a 18 foot wellcraft. not having any real issues as of yet but have read bad things about the ficht line of engines. then I read that some people don't have any issues and love them. I called a local evinrude Johnson dealer and he told me that most of the early...
hi I have a 1999 evinrude 115 ficht engine that I just bought. it is running fine and starts right up ,but today I changed spark plugs and the old ones had a lot of dry black soot on them. I put the four new ones in and ran it for about 10 minutes and checked them and they too were covered in...
hi I have a 2000 180 fisherman,and I'm trying to get a owners manual for it. I did a google search and came up empty. anyone know where I may be able to pick one up? thanks guys
I was going to buy a 78 mako but had a old man two houses down put his wellcraft 18 up for sale. boat is clean and well cared for. he hit me with a great price and I bought it. it has a 2000 115 on it. I did compression check and it came back 120 to 122 on all four cyc. it starts fine and idels...
hi guys I'm going to look at a 1978 mako with a 1997 200 Johnson on it. I looked online abit and found carb issues with them "getting dirty" but not much else. do you guys know of any real issues with these motors? the engine had a complete redo in 2011 by black bird motors in pa. looked them up...
