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Please help 9.9 stalls with cowling

Tuddy

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I just bought a sailboat with a yamaha 9.9elhq. The motor runs like a top without the cowling on. The second it gets clamped down the motor stalls as if my thumb was plugging the intake. The vent on the cowling is free of obstruction.

Is there a secondary air inlet im unaware of?

I see nothing on the motor out of the ordinary.

Ive done a ton of googling on this and cant seem to find any concrete information.

Please help! Any advice is welcomed!
 
It is almost allways a exhaust leak on the motor starving it of oxygen. Take a piece of vacuum tubing and stick one end in your ear and search all the gaskets with the other end while the engine is running. Just be careful of moving parts.
 
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