I have a 1996 Evinrude 88SPL. I was having problem getting it to idle at all (on land with the "ear muffs"). After a previous post & some suggestions from it as well as reading a lot of other posts & suggestions, we took what we read & we rebuilt the carbs, cleaned the idle jets( which were clogged), we ran Seafoam in the Fuel. We have ruled out fuel lines, we replaced the bulb you pump for the fuel. We have managed to get it to idle & throttle up while on land. We decided to take it to the lake to see what would happen today.
We can crank it ok for the most part. It will not idle at all unless we continuously choke it. The 2 times we were able to throttle up any, it was really sluggish & sputtery....so it really doesnt accelerate at all without dying right away.
Also, there is a red plastic switch on the motor, looks like it is possibly an On/Off switch for the choke. It has fuel lines running from it to the carbourator. Any ideas on what this is, how it should be set, etc. would be helpful as well. We cannot find anything on it on the service manual.
Any help would be fantastic. We were hoping to take it with us on our next caming trip, especially since the little boat motor locked up last week
Yeah, that will be our next project.
If I have left out any information that would help to determine what we are missing, please let me know, I will be more than happy to post any additional info.
We do have a service manual and have read through it, looked at it, and tried to resolve our issues using the manual, but it doesn't seem to cover this stuff very well.
We can crank it ok for the most part. It will not idle at all unless we continuously choke it. The 2 times we were able to throttle up any, it was really sluggish & sputtery....so it really doesnt accelerate at all without dying right away.
Also, there is a red plastic switch on the motor, looks like it is possibly an On/Off switch for the choke. It has fuel lines running from it to the carbourator. Any ideas on what this is, how it should be set, etc. would be helpful as well. We cannot find anything on it on the service manual.
Any help would be fantastic. We were hoping to take it with us on our next caming trip, especially since the little boat motor locked up last week
Yeah, that will be our next project.If I have left out any information that would help to determine what we are missing, please let me know, I will be more than happy to post any additional info.
We do have a service manual and have read through it, looked at it, and tried to resolve our issues using the manual, but it doesn't seem to cover this stuff very well.