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My 1996 9.9 MH 4 stroke Merc runs great and idles smoothly with the cowl off. When I put the cowl on the engine slows down until it dies. It seems to me that the engine is starving for air. If I remove the cowl before the engine dies, she picks back up and runs fine again. I can run without...
