Starting and Throttle

[ray914]

I'm going to hit you with 2 problems. First I just switch motors and put a 135 black max on a 19' carolina skiff (fun) my problem is the ignition switch or starter solenoid. You have got to keep trying to start it for the bendix to engage. It just clicks 4 or 5 times then it starts. I just put it on the boat last night and I used my old + and - which were almost new? solenoid? I took it to the lake this afternoon and had to jump the solenoid to start a couple of times.

The second: I took the carbs apart and cleaned very well and with air. When I give it quick throttle it lugs and will die if I don't back off and feather it. Once it gets about half throttle then I can nail it? Fresh gas, new plugs and fuel filter?

I'm sorry about rambling on. But you guys were a lot of help with my cooling problem..............

 

[j_martin]

Re: Starting and Throttle

I'm going to hit you with 2 problems. First I just switch motors and put a 135 black max on a 19' carolina skiff (fun) my problem is the ignition switch or starter solenoid. You have got to keep trying to start it for the bendix to engage. It just clicks 4 or 5 times then it starts. I just put it on the boat last night and I used my old + and - which were almost new? solenoid? I took it to the lake this afternoon and had to jump the solenoid to start a couple of times.

The second: I took the carbs apart and cleaned very well and with air. When I give it quick throttle it lugs and will die if I don't back off and feather it. Once it gets about half throttle then I can nail it? Fresh gas, new plugs and fuel filter?

I'm sorry about rambling on. But you guys were a lot of help with my cooling problem..............

1. Do you mean the starter spins and the bendix doesn't engage. Fix it. (usually a little lube will do.)
2. There's a neutral safety switch in the controls. Be sure the shift is centered in neutral. try rocking it.
Actually it's best to go after it with a meter or test light when it's acting up.

If you disassembled the carbs and put them back together without gasket kits, you didn't do them any good. The gaskets don't reseat well, especially the center bowl gasket. Then they tend to flood. Get the gasket kits and some carb cleaner, and take your time and do it right. Be sure to get new carb base gaskets, too. An air leak at the base of a carb can ventilate a piston in short order. (view the wrist pin through the spark plug hole)

If you messed with the carbs and didn't do a link-n-sync, anything could be wrong. Linkage advance and timing are pretty critical for good performance.

hope it helps
John

 

[ray914]

Re: Starting and Throttle

The starter solenoid just clicks, then all of sudden it'll start. I cleaned all the connections (fresh battery) at the solenoid and made sure they were tightened. I changed from a 90 hp evinrude to this mercury. It has a gear shift with throttle and seperate ignition switch that mounded in the console.

 

[j_martin]

Re: Starting and Throttle

The starter solenoid just clicks, then all of sudden it'll start. I cleaned all the connections (fresh battery) at the solenoid and made sure they were tightened. I changed from a 90 hp evinrude to this mercury. It has a gear shift with throttle and seperate ignition switch that mounded in the console.

If the solenoid clicks, and jumping the large terminals on it will spin the starter, then the solenoid is bad. That's a common failure mode.

hope it helps
John