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i bought this motor last fall. at the end of last season it would die with anymore than 1/ throttle. this year it won't start. put in new gas and plugs. motor has spark. I disconnected the fuel line runnning into carb and turned it over...fuel shot out. motor will run as long as i shoot...
I bought this motor at the end of last season. it ran great for a while then at the end of season started to die at anything over 1/2 throttle. this year it won't start/run. (I did fill it up with new gas) i got spark (put in new plugs). i disconnected the fuel hose from pump to carb and...
OK....I had a 69 18hp evinrude w/ electric start and controls. this motor had no start or kill switch other than the key. I switched that to a 62 28hp electric start. this motor has a push button start switch and no kill switch. I tried to wire it up exactley like the last one but had some...
i just bought this motor. I had it out about 2 weeks ago and it started and ran ok. the only problem was when I went to full throttle it took a long time to open up and sound good (sounded like it was lugging for a while. after I got home I found the fuel tank breather was closed so I opened...
I have a 1969 "I believe" 18hp evinrude motor. last week durring a fishing trip it started making a banging noise like the prop hit a log. this got worse and finally the gears started grinding. we limped back as long as my passenger held pressure on the shifter in forward. this only...
