FarrellZach
New member
Hey everybody, brand new here and to boat ownership in general. I purchased a 1999 Sylvan 818 pontoon last weekend. Started up and idled no problem when I bought it and did yesterday when we went to the lake.
The issue is this—the motor idles at roughly 1k and sounds just fine. When you give it any throttle forward or reverse, it’ll hit 2500 and then just keep bouncing up to 3000 and back to 2500. It won’t go higher than that and isn’t doing anything to the prop, from what I can tell.
Hopefully this explanation makes any bit of sense, I took video of it, but I can’t post that straight from my phone.
Any suggestions or help would be awesome!
The issue is this—the motor idles at roughly 1k and sounds just fine. When you give it any throttle forward or reverse, it’ll hit 2500 and then just keep bouncing up to 3000 and back to 2500. It won’t go higher than that and isn’t doing anything to the prop, from what I can tell.
Hopefully this explanation makes any bit of sense, I took video of it, but I can’t post that straight from my phone.
Any suggestions or help would be awesome!