Long story short: I was out for a ride and the motor started dying and then we got some white smoke comming from the cowling and then the motor died.
Got towed back to the marina, someone ran a compression test and found the bottom 2 cylinders were more than 25% off between the 2 top ones.
So the guy sprayed in a mixture of WD40 + Auto Trans fluid saying he was trying to save the motor. We got compression back all around on all 4 cylinders, however, when I took it for a test drive yesterday it doesent want to rev higher than 2900 RPM at full throttle.
The mechanic says he's not an outboard expert but knows motors. He is looking at the crabs next, but I dont see why anything else should have changed as the motor was running like a champ before all this.
What do you guys think the next corse of action should be ?
Thanks!!!
Got towed back to the marina, someone ran a compression test and found the bottom 2 cylinders were more than 25% off between the 2 top ones.
So the guy sprayed in a mixture of WD40 + Auto Trans fluid saying he was trying to save the motor. We got compression back all around on all 4 cylinders, however, when I took it for a test drive yesterday it doesent want to rev higher than 2900 RPM at full throttle.
The mechanic says he's not an outboard expert but knows motors. He is looking at the crabs next, but I dont see why anything else should have changed as the motor was running like a champ before all this.
What do you guys think the next corse of action should be ?
Thanks!!!