InstaGator
Contributing Member
I've got a 1993 Force 40hp outboard that I'm working on for a friend. Sometimes it starts right up but won't idle. You have to have the idle level way up even after it's warm and to put it in gear you have to be quick to lower the lever and put it in gear... thats when it wants to start. Sometimes after we have been running it and stop somewhere we will go to start it and it will start for a split second and shut off and it does this about 10 times before it will stay running and then you have to put it in gear and get the RPMs up to keep it running. I've cleaned the carb and put new plugs in but I cant figure out why it's doing this. Anyone had a problem like this before?