Help! Evinrude Triumph 65 ('73) doesnt have any power when I put it in gear!

[conner5255]

I have seen a few post about this subject, but didnt see much in the way of answers. Please help!
1973 Evinrude 65hp, starts, idols and revs fine, performed well at the house with the muffs on but when under a load (at the lake) it would not throttle up. Not sure which direction to go.

Thanks for your advise and help!!!!

 

[busted-bayliner]

Re: Help! Evinrude Triumph 65 ('73) doesnt have any power when I put it in gear!

I have seen a few post about this subject, but didnt see much in the way of answers. Please help!
1973 Evinrude 65hp, starts, idols and revs fine, performed well at the house with the muffs on but when under a load (at the lake) it would not throttle up. Not sure which direction to go.

Thanks for your advise and help!!!!

check to make sure you are running on all three cylinders i had this very same issue with my 73 65hp turned out to be the high speed jets on the carbs were gunked let me say this though when i took the carbs apart they looked spotless but apparently they werent some carb cleaner a piece of small wire and compressed air worked nice now it runs WOT no probs get me im 245lbs 2 kids and the wife plus 30 gallons of fuel up out the hole very quick top out at about 32 mph nice motor good luck

 

[Daviet]

Re: Help! Evinrude Triumph 65 ('73) doesnt have any power when I put it in gear!

If the spark and compression are OK, move on to the carbs as busted-bayliner suggested.

 

[conner5255]

Re: Help! Evinrude Triumph 65 ('73) doesnt have any power when I put it in gear!

Well, today we go and test! I did a comp test and all were about 130ish (kinda hard to do it by myself) and the spark is good. Pulled the carbs and cleaned them really well. put them back on and it fired right up, and today we will be taking it out to see if it worked. I will post the results.

 

[busted-bayliner]

Re: Help! Evinrude Triumph 65 ('73) doesnt have any power when I put it in gear!

how did it go?

 

[conner5255]

Re: Help! Evinrude Triumph 65 ('73) doesnt have any power when I put it in gear!

Well, good and bad. It is a 130 mile round trip, but it wasx a nice day for a drive. Got some more power from cleaning the carbs (very detailed this time) and so I was happy with that. I had forgot my spark tester at home, so I stopped along the way to the lake for another, and when I tested the spark with the new tester, I found out that at idle plenty of spark, but when throttled up and under load, the spark fizzled out. So new coil packs are ordered and should be here tomorrow. So with all of that said, I will post more results when I get the new ones in and can get back up to test it. Should be next week some time.

 

[conner5255]

Re: Help! Evinrude Triumph 65 ('73) doesnt have any power when I put it in gear!

replaced the coils, not much better. I think the timing is probably screwed up and now the "energy pack" is not working right..... so instead of continuing to put good money after bed results, I have a buddy that rebuilds Mercs, so I am going to do a swap for a much newer (same HP). A couple of cases of specialty beer and my old motor for one from his shop (warrantied and guaranteed) so not a bad deal. So long J&E!!!!

 

[busted-bayliner]

Re: Help! Evinrude Triumph 65 ('73) doesnt have any power when I put it in gear!

replaced the coils, not much better. I think the timing is probably screwed up and now the "energy pack" is not working right..... so instead of continuing to put good money after bed results, I have a buddy that rebuilds Mercs, so I am going to do a swap for a much newer (same HP). A couple of cases of specialty beer and my old motor for one from his shop (warrantied and guaranteed) so not a bad deal. So long J&E!!!!

should stick with johnson eveinrude parts are super abundant if ur dead set on gettin a merc good luck if spark was fizzin out on all thre cylinders the that would lead me to believe the stator or the power pack was goin bad 3 coils deff couldnt go bad at the same time just sayin keep a good thing not a fan of merc

 

[conner5255]

Re: Help! Evinrude Triumph 65 ('73) doesnt have any power when I put it in gear!

Well, I'm gonna go to Mercury. They are way more prevalent in this area, and everyone (at the lake during testing) to go with Merc and had Mercs on their boats. And the 2 guys that had Evinrudes told me that they wished they had Mercs. And to top it all off, the guys at the Johnson/Evinrude shop were not at all helpful or customer friendly.

 

[busted-bayliner]

Re: Help! Evinrude Triumph 65 ('73) doesnt have any power when I put it in gear!

put your old coils back on the pm me i need 3 good ones lol