iwombat
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For all here in helping me with all the restoration of my '78 18-foot Starcraft SS. And, specific to this topic, my two motors - a 1977 85hp Johnson and a 1987 15hp Evinrude. I'm still working on a water leak with the kicker, but I'm not too concerned with how that will turn out.
I took it out for a couple of days of boating least weekend and went through two full tanks of gas (18gal) in both glassy smooth water and some tidal rip lumpiness. The 85hp pulled a boatload of 5 around like a champ for hours. The 15hp put in a few hours of trolling with no real issues (except the milky stuff in the LU on inspection afterwards).
The 85hp tops out at 5000rpm, so one of these days I'll consider propping down for 5500rpm. That'll have to wait until the boating season is over I think.
Anyway, thanks again everyone.
I took it out for a couple of days of boating least weekend and went through two full tanks of gas (18gal) in both glassy smooth water and some tidal rip lumpiness. The 85hp pulled a boatload of 5 around like a champ for hours. The 15hp put in a few hours of trolling with no real issues (except the milky stuff in the LU on inspection afterwards).
The 85hp tops out at 5000rpm, so one of these days I'll consider propping down for 5500rpm. That'll have to wait until the boating season is over I think.
Anyway, thanks again everyone.