Re: 1975 Starcraft 140 Evinrude OB -- project
Re: 1975 Starcraft 140 Evinrude OB -- project
well, the water test did not fair so well, actually it did get a little wet but that was it.
ran into some interesting issues. Started it up at the house to make sure before i went out to the launch. Get on the boat ramp, start her up and turned the key off just as quick not thinking. after that she would not start. turned over like no ones business but would not fire off at all. pulled the plug wire and used a screw driver to check for spark again and it was good.
the battery eventually went dead, and it seemed to do so rather quickly only about 10 minutes with breaks in between included. had my son grab my other battery for the other boat, brand new and freshly charged, hooked it up and she fired off first try. go figure the battery was the issue.
Now with that fixed the RPMs that should be low at idle jump up and the engine is at full throttle while in neutral and in forward gear ??????
check all the connections and adjustments for the throttle cable and shift cable. jacked around with those and the control box for about another hour and just could not get it right. once i had the idle set right it would not go into gear, get the shifting right and the throttle was messed up???? So after about 2 hours sitting with the boat half in and half out of the water trying to get all this corrected daylight was fleeting so off to the house and no water test.
As i am driving home it hits me, boy do i feel stupid, but like i said before i am as dumb as a box of rocks when it comes to outboards and am learning very quickly. when the PO had it and said all was working and after everything else i found with it previously you would think i would and should know better than to believe anyone else and just go over everything regardless. From now on that will be the case. So back to the issue...... who has figured it out already???
I assumed that the control box and all was hooked up correctly and did not bother to check it all out, so when it hit me driving home, i get to the house and sure enough :redface: pull up on the cold start lever and guess what it is controlling, one hint, not the gas... The PO had the shift and throttle cables on the wrong controls in the box and when i swapped boxes i marked them and installed them the say way i took the out, WRONG. switched them around at the house and tested it on the muffs, much better...... hopefully tonight i can get a quick test in.
The other thing i found was that when i pulled out the plug a whole lot of water came out, i mean a lot, so i guess i have a crack, split, problem with water leaking in. will find that out soon as well.
:facepalm:
