Mercruiser 305 V8, 230 HP.....Quicksilver throttle...Alpha One outdrive
I just recently got my boat up and running, engine seemed to be running fine, ran a full tank through it. The RPM's seemed to be running higher than normal on the tach. but engine sounded ok (to me, no engine expert). A few times the tach was reading idle at around 1800. Also, when flooring it out of a no wake zone with only 4 people in the boat it jumped up to around 5400 rpms which I think for my engine the max is supposed to be 4600 rpm and it's never jumped that high before. I also noticed at cruising speed while already planed out the tach seemed to bounce down like it may have been stuck. I was wondering if this may be a throttle cable adjustment issue since sometimes while shifting back and forth from forward to reverse while parking my throttle sticks and I have to push or pull on it pretty hard to get it to shift. The boat is an '87 so nothing would surprise me.
I just recently got my boat up and running, engine seemed to be running fine, ran a full tank through it. The RPM's seemed to be running higher than normal on the tach. but engine sounded ok (to me, no engine expert). A few times the tach was reading idle at around 1800. Also, when flooring it out of a no wake zone with only 4 people in the boat it jumped up to around 5400 rpms which I think for my engine the max is supposed to be 4600 rpm and it's never jumped that high before. I also noticed at cruising speed while already planed out the tach seemed to bounce down like it may have been stuck. I was wondering if this may be a throttle cable adjustment issue since sometimes while shifting back and forth from forward to reverse while parking my throttle sticks and I have to push or pull on it pretty hard to get it to shift. The boat is an '87 so nothing would surprise me.