Replaced power pack - now has FAST idle

Jim311

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I found some cracks/melting on my 1995 Evinrude 9.9 E10RELEO powerpack, so I replaced it, along with a new impeller, head gasket, thermostat, and some other parts due to cooling issues. Anyway, now the boat is idling good and seems to run awesome, but it is idling so fast that the prop even spins in neutral when it's in the water. At first I thought I had adjusted my shift linkage wrong, but it shifts into drive and reverse fine. When in neutral I can pull the pull starter and the prop doesn't spin, but once it's fired up it slowly spins up to speed where it's really spinning fast. It's at what I estimate is maybe 33% throttle or something just sitting at idle. I think maybe the idle speed was adjusted before when the powerpack was failing just to keep the motor running, and now I need to adjust it to slow it down some. Do I use the screw on the starboard side of the carb (the one with the spring around the screw) or do I adjust by sticking a screwdriver through the air intake baffle, where the round wheel meets up with the ring below the flywheel?
 

Jim311

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Re: Replaced power pack - now has FAST idle

Should I just screw it in until it slows down?
 

Daviet

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Re: Replaced power pack - now has FAST idle

Probably screw it OUT to slow the idle down.
 

Jim311

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Re: Replaced power pack - now has FAST idle

It's kinda hard to tell by the diagram exactly how the screw enters the carb. Does it go in from the top, or the starboard side of the motor? As far as the prop turning at a fast idle, is that normal? I was thinking at first that maybe I didn't adjust the shift linkage properly when I pulled the lower unit, but if that were the case, I wouldn't be able to get it into both forward and reverse. At least in the past when I've put it on wrong I lost reverse or it wouldn't shift into gear at all. Also I would think that when I pull started it the prop would turn, and it does not.
 

AlTn

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Re: Replaced power pack - now has FAST idle

sounds like the l/u fluid is acting like the atf in a torque converter and transferring the rotational energy of the pinion and driveshaft into enough energy to turn the fwd/rev gear on the propshaft, the propshaft spins as will the prop....speaks well of the lower unit bearings, fluid and seals as well as too high of an idle...I doubt the prop has much torque when it's doing this
 

Jim311

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Re: Replaced power pack - now has FAST idle

Yeah, I imagine I could stop the prop with my foot or something, but I'm not going to try it, LOL.
 
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