Fast Idle Lever Barely Works '96 Johnson 88 hp

Tinman57

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The fast-idle lever on the control box seems very loose, and it hardly boosts the idle speed at all. When I remove the motor cover and work the fast-idle lever, it barely moves the throttle linkage, and barely revs the engine. The fast-idle lever seems completely loose in the first 40 degrees of travel. In the last 5 degrees it finally gets a bit of tension and moves the linkage.

All was working fine last week and the fast-idle lever boosted rpm quite a bit, as it always had. This is a sudden change. I also notice that the engine sometimes seems to take a long time to idle down from high speed.

Engine model is J88TSLEDR
 

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