Re: Johnson experts chime in...help needed...
Well I didn't take more pics of the original motor but I have some of another 90hp I picked up last night from a guy selling an older boat and motor. He was willing to part with just the motor so I went and had a look and was pleasantly surprised. 120 compression on all 4 cylinders, it's a lot cleaner than the motor my boat came with and has more complete wiring as well. '81 Johnson 90hp, even a lot of the parts are interchangeable except for the carbs, since my lower unit is a 90hp on the original motor. We started it up and it ran, there's a bad coil and the PO said after it idles for about 10 mins, the port side is fairly cool but the starboard side gets pretty hot so I'll do a thermostat change out before anything else, and swap out the bad coil as well:
J90TLCIM is the model number.
Good shot with the tilt/trim visible
Pretty clean
Even has most of the stickers...
Port side
I'm hoping if there's been heat issues, the block/power head doesn't have
any cracks, but the price was right...
