'74 40hp Evinrude bogging down

MSkelton

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Sep 9, 2001
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My '74 40 evinrude starts and runs great until it gets hot (20-30 minutes of running wide open). It then starts to miss and eventually bogs down to about half throttle, but still runs. After a cool down period of say 15 minutes it cranks and runs fine. Thank goodness I don't run a long way on my local lake! Any help? Is this a coil breaking down?
 

rlouns

Petty Officer 2nd Class
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Aug 24, 2001
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Re: '74 40hp Evinrude bogging down

I am no expert but I just went through the same senario with my 90 HP Force (3cyl).<br /><br />Then it went to half throttle and stayed. I just found a broken wire to my #2 cylinder.<br /><br />You never know.
 

rlouns

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Re: '74 40hp Evinrude bogging down

That broken wire went to the coil on the #2 cylinder. ;)
 
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