08-11-2022, 08:20 PM
I kind of agree with NETO, if the motor ran okay before it's likely some little thing that needs to be done to get it to purring... My FIL recently bought a boat and after putting a couple grand into little fixes he sold it for less than he bought it for... Most of his issues were really not that big of deal and I have to work around the same type issues all the time on my boat. But when I wasn't there to tell him what he needed to do and he had to be towed in, then you tend to give up on things... You sort of have to learn to be somewhat of a mechanic with older boat motors so you can tweak the little things that like to make life difficult.. I guess being a former snowmobiler I learned that you have to be able to work with things if you're going to use them... Really if you have fuel, spark and compression the motor will run, so you have to check and see which of the three you are missing and then figure out how to fix that issue... Most of the time it's usually fuel is your issue, unless you have a safety switch somewhere cutting out your spark... Bad gas is probably 90% of motor problems, with deposits plugging carburetors up... Well at least they are my main issues... Good luck... Jeff
When things get stressful think I'll go fish'en and worry about it tomorrow!