tbrownarcher
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Our boat is a 1999 18 ft Triton 180 Premier.
Our motor is an XR2 Black Max 150 HP.
The Serial # is B176785
Our motor fowls the plugs and then it's of course hard to start and does not run really well for quite a long time of full throttle. The motor does clean the plugs or heat up enough to run well after a long time at full throttle. We can also take the plugs out and clean them with spray on carburetor cleaner which makes it run like crazy.
What is happening is that we have to idle the motor a lot because the lakes around here are no wake or 5 mph for the most part and so we are not able to send it flying like it needs to be.
We disconnected the oil pump and run without the pump mixing the gas/oil ration ourselves. We do this with a critical eye at a 50:1 ratio which is what we understand it should be run at. The motor being a 1985 we don't want to be running it when the oil pump goes out and can't afford a new one. We don't trust a new one either so we prefer to mix the oil and gas. Oh yeah! we fill it with regular gas (no alcohol).
The obvious question is what can we do to fix this? Since we would do the work ourselves we also need any tips to do the work that anyone thinks may be helpful. We will buy the OEM book.
Thanks,
Nate
Our motor is an XR2 Black Max 150 HP.
The Serial # is B176785
Our motor fowls the plugs and then it's of course hard to start and does not run really well for quite a long time of full throttle. The motor does clean the plugs or heat up enough to run well after a long time at full throttle. We can also take the plugs out and clean them with spray on carburetor cleaner which makes it run like crazy.
What is happening is that we have to idle the motor a lot because the lakes around here are no wake or 5 mph for the most part and so we are not able to send it flying like it needs to be.
We disconnected the oil pump and run without the pump mixing the gas/oil ration ourselves. We do this with a critical eye at a 50:1 ratio which is what we understand it should be run at. The motor being a 1985 we don't want to be running it when the oil pump goes out and can't afford a new one. We don't trust a new one either so we prefer to mix the oil and gas. Oh yeah! we fill it with regular gas (no alcohol).
The obvious question is what can we do to fix this? Since we would do the work ourselves we also need any tips to do the work that anyone thinks may be helpful. We will buy the OEM book.
Thanks,
Nate